Example sentences of "[noun] [vb pp] a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saddam 's latest concessions marked a significant improvement over those offered in letters to Rafsanjani dated July 31 and Aug. 3 , in which he reportedly " stepp[ed] back " from Iraqi claims over the Shatt al-Arab waterway and proposed Iraqi troop withdrawals within two months . |
| 2 | The fighting cast a long shadow over the UN peace-keeping operation in Croatia , where the first infantry units arrived over the weekend . |
| 3 | LABOUR achieved a clear lead over the Conservatives in local council by-elections held during the conference season , according to an analysis by The Independent . |
| 4 | A light drizzle cast a threatening hue over the day . |
| 5 | Those four years left a black cloud over everything with the ever-recurring casualties among our friends and relatives and the suffocating misery I remember when our parents could no longer hide their anxiety at the big German push in the spring of 1918 when it seemed their advance towards Paris would never stop . |
| 6 | Thus the king preserved a vital control over his episcopate . |
| 7 | The foreman cast a professional eye over the indicated damage . |
| 8 | French revolutionary experience cast a long shadow over the early and middle nineteenth century , in the aftermath of the 1789 — 93 overthrow of the ancien régime , and the successive coups and counter-coups of 1830 , 1848 — 51 and 1870 — 1 . |
| 9 | MASS brutality by the Romanian regime on the streets of Bucharest and cities and towns across the country cast a chilling shadow over Eastern Europe 's momentous year of democratic change yesterday . |
| 10 | The earlier failure of East Suffolk organising-tutor scheme cast a long shadow over the discussion between Jacques and martin Wilson , the new Secretary of Education . |
| 11 | To reach the sixteenth green from the championship tee required a full driver over a lake of 230 yards . |