Example sentences of "[noun] of a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ‘ double taxonomy ’ took the form that it did partly as a result of a generalised concern over the perceived vulnerability of the young . |
| 2 | I have taken my colouring for Sample 3 from a photograph of a stormy sky over a small lake at dusk . |
| 3 | So this cell signals both onset and offset of a small spot over a small region of the visual field . |
| 4 | Local landowners blocked road access to the mine for 24 hours as part of a continuing protest over the distribution of royalties from the mine . |
| 5 | The Tayside men hold an advantage of a single point over their well-heeled Glaswegian rivals , and they traditionally fare well on visits to Govan . |
| 6 | In 1985 Caffier took advantage of a quiet hour over lunch at the Musée de l'école de Nancy and stole five pieces of pate de verre by Daum and Galle valued at more than FFr30 million . |
| 7 | The advantage of a Statutory Demand over the filing of a High Court writ or County Court summons is that it tends to bring on matters at a faster and more urgent rate . |
| 8 | A letter from John Beale to Samuel Hartlib in the late 1650s shows how the integration could be effected through the hope of a restored dominion over nature : |
| 9 | Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern . |
| 10 | This may be confirmed on a few sites by the presence of a small cemetery over the site of the original house , after it had been thoroughly demolished , since some of the graves have been dug into the wall foundations , showing an ignorance of their existence . |
| 11 | It also reacted strongly to the proposal of a white veto over CODESA decisions , which , it said , " smacks of the very precept of racism on which the present unjust order is based " . |
| 12 | The benefit of a broad view over many states only applies if the set of strings is large and varied . |
| 13 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 14 | The advantages of a small company over a large one is a matter of swings and roundabouts . |
| 15 | ULSTER school chiefs today revealed an action plan following the dismissal of a senior official over claims that £170,000 was paid out for goods never received . |
| 16 | He said that he did not see the point of a central control over pay beds which was a relic of the Labour governments of the 1960s . |
| 17 | The sanctions are designed to force Libya to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects and to co-operate in the investigation in a similar case , the mid-air explosion of a French airliner over Africa in 1989 . |
| 18 | Put the gelatine and orange juice in the top of a double saucepan over hot water , or in a cup standing in a pan of hot water . |
| 19 | Various experiments of a similar nature over several years demonstrated the same phenomenon over much greater distances . |
| 20 | To speak English verse is the sign of a minimum control over reason and grammar , so that , for similarly mimetic reasons , in Shakespeare drunks do not speak verse ( the barge-scene in Antony and Cleopatra shows some famous men teetering on the verge of prose , and indeed relapsing into it ) , nor do foreigners , nor those with strong British regional accents . |
| 21 | These data suggest that the selection of a relative who gives moral support is related partly to the composition of the kin group and partly to the quality of a particular relationship over a long period of time . |
| 22 | But the hostilities also included the spectacular and almost unique victory of a Scottish army over an English one , at Bannockburn in 1314 . |
| 23 | It is now only a short step to think of comparing ‘ local ’ specific mortality patterns ( m a ) with a standard ( m s ) by means of a weighted average over the age groups of the ratios of m a to m s , using as weights the deaths that would be expected locally if the standard specific mortalities were to apply , i.e. m s x P a This is called the standardized mortality ratio ( SMR ) . |
| 24 | The tests will be carried out in the specialist bone marrow unit , which is planning the world-first transplant on the boy at the centre of a legal tussle over the closure of the Westminster Children 's Hospital . |
| 25 | Mr Birt and Mr Hussey are at the centre of a deepening row over the way in which the corporation is run . |
| 26 | The dispute over the bird has been at the centre of a long-running debate over the fate of the US 's last remaining ancient forests , which has included acrimonious exchanges between environmentalists and the timber industry . |
| 27 | Economic development in France has been the subject of a lively debate over the past few years . |
| 28 | Some deputies had voted against an Anglo-French expedition because they thought that Egypt was a distraction from the proper concern of a French government over the lost provinces ; other Frenchmen already envisaged an understanding with Russia . |
| 29 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 30 | MOST of the 45,000 ex-Soviet troops in Poland are likely to leave by the end of the year after the resolution of a two-year row over the pull-out . |