Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is not clear if the Government 's tactics over the last few days are typical of the muddle that has beset it in recent months or if it is deliberately designed to throw its opponents into confusion . |
| 2 | Others were furious at what they said were government strong-arm tactics over the vote . |
| 3 | The government agreed to clear US$90,000,000 of official arrears on external payments by the end of March 1991 , and to allow the island 's commercial banks to clear a further US$157,000,000 in private-sector arrears over the next 30 months through a series of bond issues . |
| 4 | He was appalled at their habits , saying they just covered up the dirt by placing new rushes over the old , thus covering the dirt and filth which was caused by animals wandering in and out of the houses . |
| 5 | Hope you managed to get some sort of break over the weekend and that you 're not too behind on schedule — it 'll probably pick up later on in the shoot ! |
| 6 | She was accustomed to exercise for , each morning for the past two weeks , Sharpe had saddled her at three o'clock , then ridden her south to watch the dawn break over the Sambre valley , but this morning , hearing the crackle of musketry to the east , he had ridden the mare much further than usual . |
| 7 | Fred Crocombe went on to work for Boulton Paul Aircraft , and often reflected on how close he came to being one of those many aviator 's lost mysteriously without a trace over the wide expanse of the sea . |
| 8 | just lay the trace over the top of the pin it does n't come out . |
| 9 | They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute . |
| 10 | Sloth has been graded Hard Severe , VS and HVS over the years . |
| 11 | Changes in roles over the year and changes in emphasis in areas of responsibility are outlined at the meeting . |
| 12 | the basis of the defence is the absence of any control by the defendant over the acts of a stranger on his land and therefore the nature of the stranger 's conduct is irrelevant . |
| 13 | This also vindicates the Kelsenian thesis of the primacy of the principle of delegation over the principle of subsumption . |
| 14 | 95% of drivers/riders over the legal limit are male . |
| 15 | 3 Stir in the vanilla essence , then strain the custard over the raspberries and almonds and leave to cool . |
| 16 | Strain the custard over the tangerine pulp and stir in the dissolved gelatine . |
| 17 | Pour the custard over the top and bake for about 30–40 minutes until the custard is golden brown . |
| 18 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 19 | Just sometimes , this one had crimson nails , left over from the other , who wore a tight black skirt and a black jacket with padded shoulders over a pink silk shirt and was carefully made up with pink and brown eyeshadow , brushed blusher along the cheekbone and plummy lips . |
| 20 | From somewhere out of the back ranks of the fighters , Samson rose up , towering head and shoulders over the rest of the mob . |
| 21 | It 's been a great weight on my shoulders over the last month . |
| 22 | She seemed to be straining her head and shoulders over the counter , and he repeated , slowly and emphatically , ‘ The proverbial washbasket ; you know . ’ |
| 23 | She looked up and saw Felipe lying at the top , head and shoulders over the drop , and Mitch joined him as she was still looking dazedly upwards . |
| 24 | Third , as we monitored our representative sample of schools over a three year period , we could perceive some of them undergoing a process of structural transition , shifting away from the simple two-tier model towards departmentalism and/or a matrix structure . |
| 25 | The particular contribution of the teaching of French to pupils ' perceptions will be explored through observation by a researcher based in the two schools over a period of at least six months . |
| 26 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 27 | A Mr Shawcross , chairman of the examination board of the NUT , offered a similar contribution : he spoke of the " revolutionary change " in the teaching of English in elementary schools over the previous ten years , and he went on ( in the words of the bulletin report ) to give " his experience of Manchester children under the old system " : |
| 28 | Table 6.1 shows the distribution of PNP Scale l/MPG roles revealed by the survey of all schools over the period 1986–9 . |
| 29 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 30 | The rise of the international business schools over the last decades and the substantial increase in the numbers of Third World students in the universities and technical institutes of the First World have provided an ever-increasing pool of potential local employees for the TNCs , and recruitment is brisk . |