Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun] [adv] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO North-East councillors came face to face in court for the first time yesterday over allegations that they assaulted each other . |
| 2 | The suspension of the armed struggle just over a month ago was seen as a break-through , but within days , peace seemed as far away as ever . |
| 3 | After locking into the Corpach sea basin the previous day we nosed into the narrow canal leading to Neptune 's staircase towards a spectacular sunrise somewhere over the summit of Ben Nevis , a crackling of thin ice at our bows and a thick rim of white frost on the teak gunwhales . |
| 4 | Like the new politics all over Europe , they are passionately ecological , inevitably in a region where the dragon 's breath of unchecked industrialisation has scorched great tracts of lately rural land , sickening trees and children indiscriminately . |
| 5 | Goulding 's move leaves Wigan 's £75,000 scrum half Andy Gregory in limbo with the new season just over a fortnight away . |
| 6 | A collaboration from the depths of hell looks on the cards , we can report with our fingers stuffed prematurely in our ears , as VIC REEVES and BOB MORTIMER have been spotted in cahoots with THE BEAUTIFUL SOUTH all over London recently . |
| 7 | It was a time of great British expansion and it is thought that , in the guise of ships ' cats , they were scattered from the British Isles all over the globe in a comparatively short space of time . |
| 8 | It is reflected throughout Europe , and in Tervoort 's extensive study of 20 countries in Europe we can see the move toward the incorporation of signing in educational methodology : ‘ There is no change in favour of oralism and there is an atmosphere of change in the other direction all over Europe ’ ( 1983 : 143 ) . |
| 9 | But it seemed to me that I had not properly answered his question and that he was really voicing the unthinking complaint of the people who lived in the little houses all over the world . |
| 10 | THE Manchester United footballer Viv Anderson was given a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story in the Daily Star concerning a post-match clash between Anderson and the Wimbledon player John Fashanu . |
| 11 | ALISTAIR Bell , whose wife was found murdered in a sports centre car park , won undisclosed libel damages in the High Court yesterday over a story linking him with her death . |
| 12 | SIS accepted ‘ substantial ’ libel damages in the High Court yesterday over the Channel 4 programme ‘ Against The Odds ’ shown in December 1990 , which claimed the company was involved in a conspiracy with major bookmakers to manipulate starting prices . |
| 13 | ACTOR John Thaw was in a defiant mood yesterday over plummeting viewing figures for his new TV show as he collected an honour from Buckingham Palace . |
| 14 | MACEDONIA 'S parliament was locked in a bitter debate yesterday over demands that the republic accept a temporary name to allow its admission to the United Nations . |
| 15 | Your friend told me they held vigils outside the Soviet embassies all over the world when I was arrested and when Sakharov went on hunger strike . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 17 | JACKIE HAYDEN TAKES A LOOK AT THE BLACK CLOUD CURRENTLY OVER THE MUSIC INDUSTRY HERE , BUT OFFERS HOPE OF A BRIGHTER FUTURE . |
| 18 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates reportedly came up with an ingenious solution when he was romancing venture capitalist Ann Winblad : observing that the same movies are usually playing at the same time all over America , they came up with the Virtual Date — they 'd each go alone to the same movie at the same time , and discuss it afterwards on their car phones . |
| 19 | It is because it is applied recursively at the growing tips all over the tree — branches make sub-branches , then each sub-branch makes sub-sub-branches , and so on — that the whole tree ends up large and bushy . |
| 20 | Anglers are to challenge Yorkshire Water at a public hearing today over plans to abstract half the 10 million gallon flow of the river Hull , which they claim is already running dangerously low . |