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 The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 :
10 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 .
11 Every few months Hugh de Tracy would mutter about seeing to the building of a proper barbican over the postern .
12 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 .
13 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 " .
14 The benefit of a broad view over many states only applies if the set of strings is large and varied .
15 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 .
16 The advantages of a small company over a large one is a matter of swings and roundabouts .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Various experiments of a similar nature over several years demonstrated the same phenomenon over much greater distances .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 But the hostilities also included the spectacular and almost unique victory of a Scottish army over an English one , at Bannockburn in 1314 .
25 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 ) .
26 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 .
27 Mr Birt and Mr Hussey are at the centre of a deepening row over the way in which the corporation is run .
28 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 .
29 Economic development in France has been the subject of a lively debate over the past few years .
30 But their knockout involvement allowed Whiston Cross to take over the premier division leadership courtesy of a 5-2 victory over Monks Sports .
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