Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.

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1 Simon Scott converted , but the Scots , tired after an extra-time victory over the Hong Kong national side , lost 26-7 .
2 Aspects of the Westland case also showed the dangers of a government monopoly over the dissemination of information and its resultant debate .
3 My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages .
4 After the completion of a £5.5M development over the last two years , Douglas Reyburn is now firmly positioned as one of the most modern spinning mills in the business and the largest woollen carpet yarn spinners in the country .
5 The light , full and smooth , lay like a gold rind over the turf , the furze and yew bushes , the few wind-stunted thorn trees .
6 And now the Trunchbull was leaning back against the weight of the whirling girl and pivoting expertly on her toes , spinning round and round , and soon Amanda Thripp was travelling so fast she became a blur , and suddenly , with a mighty grunt , the Trunchbull let go of the pigtails and Amanda went sailing like a rocket right over the wire fence of the playground and high up into the sky .
7 With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland .
8 By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 .
9 This leads to the Maxwell-Bloch equations , which are the basis for the subsequent treatment : where the Rabi frequency has been written explicitly in polar form , G is a coupling constant and <> allows for a velocity average over the Maxwellian distribution of longitudinal velocities of the atoms .
10 LABOUR 'S proposals for higher income tax and national insurance have faded as a campaign issue over the last two weeks , but they continue to simmer in the background .
11 You 'll also need a quantity of bitumen emulsion for use as a tack coat over the existing surface .
12 Not that the Russians were much better , but they did have a few of the new German FW190S which Hitler had promised to Stalin as a goodwill gesture over the Poland deal .
13 It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease .
14 The bevel allows cuts of 0°–45° to both right and left , and the machine comes with a Perspex guard over the front of the blade to protect the operator .
15 It was a hunting watch — one of the new ones with a metal cover over the glass .
16 The seam allowances should be neatened , when not covered by a lining , with a machine zig-zag over the raw edges , or by overcasting .
17 He argued in his essay On Liberty that State schools , with a State control over the curriculum , would be simply a means of producing a docile and bien pensant population , moulded in accordance with the wishes of the government of the day .
18 THE Prime Minister scored the luckiest escape of a lifetime last night with a knife-edge victory over the ‘ enemy within ’ of his own party .
19 ‘ All I can say is that it will end with a question mark over the future .
20 On the table was a vase of flowers , a square honeycomb oozing liquid honey from its wax holes onto the dish , three jars of jam , each one a different colour of dark red , and a jug with a muslin cloth over the top .
21 Gen. Chaovalit resigned his post ostensibly following a verbal exchange with a Cabinet colleague over the issue of corruption .
22 Their whole day was spent arguing with a customs official over the contents of their truck .
23 Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door .
24 Not far away , at the top of Richmond Hill in Surrey , with a line view over the Royal Park on the one side and the valley of the River Thames — below Richmond Terrace — on the other side , charity funds provided a Home for permanently handicapped British Service men .
25 The 60 shops , with a glass roof over the courtyard , have a marketing committee on which he sits .
26 Clad in Bath stone , it is a rather stern house with an oriel window over the front door .
27 Data derived from the aircraft 's onboard navigation and position fixing systems was downlinked to the CAA 's Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit at Bournemouth-Hurn via an Inmarsat satellite over the North Atlantic and British Telecom 's ground earth receiving station at Goonhilly .
28 On Tue , 4 Jan 1994 , wrote : Worst joke to come from a scum supporter over the xmas hols .
29 The priest , highly regarded in educational circles , was transferred from his school position by church authorities to work as a curate in a country parish over the summer .
30 KENNETH Branagh brings a lot of folk out in hives and I was scratching myself furiously at the thought of Ken , Em , Stephen , Tony , Hugh and Imelda — plus Em 's distinguished mum Phyllida Law as the faithful retainer — all holed up , chummy as you please , in a country house over the Yuletide hols , quaffing bubbly and beating their breasts .
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