Example sentences of "[noun] of [art] [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later he was to acquire his pleasure dome , his fabled mansion , his circular bed , his non-stop room service of food , drink , movies , closed circuit television and girls from the Bunnies ' dormitory , the Xanadu of the Middle West over which he presided as Chicago 's Kubla Khan . |
| 2 | This ‘ double taxonomy ’ took the form that it did partly as a result of a generalised concern over the perceived vulnerability of the young . |
| 3 | That seems possible because in one of Jacob 's books , Cornet à Dés , there was a dedication to Modigliani in the edition published in 1917 which was deleted subsequently , presumably as a result of the mysterious quarrel over Beatrice . |
| 4 | As a result of the general squeeze over the past year ITN has turned to additional revenue raisers . |
| 5 | But the result of the intensive programming over the same six years lowered coronary death rate by only 7 per cent , when they were needed . |
| 6 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of an Azerbaijani blockade — itself a result of the territorial dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh . |
| 7 | I have taken my colouring for Sample 3 from a photograph of a stormy sky over a small lake at dusk . |
| 8 | East Germany 's leaders will have the opportunity of discussing the future of the two Germanys over the next two days with President Franois Mitterrand of France , the first head of state of the Western wartime Allies to pay an official visit to East Germany . |
| 9 | Fujitsu looks to sell 35,000 units of the new models over the next two years . |
| 10 | At the same time in Nature ( vol 258 , p 548 ) John Parkinson , Leslie Morrison and Richard Stephenson were proclaiming to the scientific world ‘ The constancy of the solar diameter over the past 250 years ’ . |
| 11 | Wynne-Jones constructed a fire and pushed cut fragments of the wild pig over the flames . |
| 12 | So this cell signals both onset and offset of a small spot over a small region of the visual field . |
| 13 | At the top of the blind , turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) to the wrong side and pin and tack the soft side of the touch-and-close fastener over the raw edge . |
| 14 | Well I stuck it for a long time , Di went to sleep and I got out and I had a look and I , the only thing that I could see , and it was two o'clock , half past two this morning , er the er the one side of the big house over there was full of lights , they had all the lights on and there were two cars outside with their lights on . |
| 15 | They estimate that in the 250 largest corporations , a $1,000 increase in corporate value ( defined as share price appreciation plus dividends ) produces an increase in the salary and bonus of the chief executive over a two year period of less than 10 cents , and share options add only another 58 cents . |
| 16 | In the light of the recent debates over the attribution of the prints of Mantegna and his school which arose during the recent exhibition , it was particularly apposite of Christie 's to produce a beautiful impression of ‘ The Flagellation with the Pavement ’ ( B.XIII ) ( lot 30 , est. £120,000–160,000 ) , here attributed to Mantegna with a correspondingly strong estimate . |
| 17 | PC Whitehouse said he and WPC Larkin were shocked and upset after hearing about the shooting of the other officers over their radio . |
| 18 | Polybius acts as a Greek who has a vital interest in the proper functioning of the Roman hegemony over Greece . |
| 19 | Luke writes of the natural hesitancy of the Jewish believers over the unprecedented inclusion of Gentiles in the early church . |
| 20 | They see in the presence and power of Jesus a cameo of the final victor over the forces of evil . |
| 21 | The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley . |
| 22 | The petrochemicals company Exxon have reached an agreement with the Alaskan and US federal governments on a final settlement of the legal action over the Exxon Valdez oil spill . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In this section part of the original bridge over the Braid Burn may be seen . |
| 25 | Social hygiene took off in the years immediately before the First War as part of the growing debate over national health and efficiency . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |