Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a weekend of uproar over reports that the Government intended to by-pass Parliament if defeated on the Maastricht bill and ratify the treaty anyway , Mr Hurd met the Prime Minister , John Major , the Leader in the Lords , John Wakeham , and the Chief Whip , Richard Ryder , at Downing Street yesterday morning . |
| 2 | It was viewed by the BBFC last week in the wake of a storm of controversy over claims that the game depicted torture and mutilation . |
| 3 | This consists of a layer of gravel over a raised grid at the bottom of the tank . |
| 4 | It is not the uncontrollable event , however , which is crucial as a determinant of depression but the expectation of a lack of control over stress which is argued to be a sufficient condition for depression ( Seligman , 1975 ) . |
| 5 | It was with his father Paul 's encouragement that Pascal eventually set to work on the project , which has been ‘ something of a labour of love over the last few years ’ . |
| 6 | The grant of a right of way over a road will include the following ancillary rights : ( 1 ) the right to stop for such time as is necessary to load and unload vehicles ( McIlraith v Grady [ 1968 ] 1 QB 468 ) but only where there is no other convenient place to stop London and Suburban Land v Carey ( 1991 ) 62 P & CR 480 ) ; and ( 2 ) the right to a sufficiency of vertical space immediately above the road for the purpose of loading and unloading ( VT Engineering Ltd v Barland ( Richard ) & Co Ltd ( 1968 ) 19 P & CR 890 ) . |
| 7 | The directors are accordingly not obliged to maximise current profits in order to satisfy short-term demands for dividends at the expense of a growth in profitability over a longer period . |
| 8 | Based on his wartime diaries , Ron records what it was like to be in the nose of a Lancaster at night over Germany , and to be the radar eyes in the navigation cabin . |
| 9 | An sure enough , last year Heinz had to withdraw its sponsorship of the second Green Shopping Day at the last minute amid a storm of publicity over its tuna fishing methods , which were allegedly killing dolphins . |
| 10 | Dawn slopped like a bucket of blood over the greasy waves of Lake Pontchartrain , splashing the seaside slum of Bucktown in red … |
| 11 | Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates . |
| 12 | Mrs Bottomley 's first big test as Health Secretary will come this summer with the annual public spending round , which will be conducted against a background of concern over high Government borrowing and pressure from the Tory Right for public spending cuts . |
| 13 | The second one-day game in Guyana was played against a background of uncertainty over whether Robin Jackman was about to be asked to vacate the premises . |
| 14 | Inflation , which had officially fallen to 9.4 per cent in September 1989 and to around 7 per cent in October , rose sharply in November , while the austral lost one-tenth of its value on the black market , dropping to $1.00=1,000 australs in the course of a few hours on Nov. 20 against a background of uncertainty over economic policies , tension within the government and divisions in the labour movement . |
| 15 | I would therefore ask for a sense of proportion over the future of general practice , along with some breadth of vision and tolerance for alternative types of general practice . |
| 16 | Tens of thousands of township residents stayed away from work on Aug. 27 as a mark of protest over the township violence , coinciding with a mass funeral to bury seven of the dead . |
| 17 | The insets to Fig. 1 a and b show , for K 3 C 60 and Rb 3 C 60 , respectively , the ( normalized ) resistivity ( T ) as a function of temperature over an extended temperature range . |
| 18 | Yesterday 's court hearing came in the seventh week of the bitter dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 19 | Yesterday 's hearing came in the seventh week of the dispute which began as a strike in protest over lay-offs then led to the sacking of 340 workers . |
| 20 | And they 're just doing it as a matter of course over there . |
| 21 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 22 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 23 | I have discussed earlier two salient features of the developing forms of impersonal capitalist property at the level of the enterprise : the increasing scale of enterprises and rising level of industrial concentration ; and the increasing adoption of the multidivisional form of enterprise as a means of control over geographically-and/or product-diversified operations . |
| 24 | By the mid-fourth century the patriarchal line of Church leadership began to fuse with a male construction of celibacy that defined it both as avoidance of contact with women as the source of sin and as a source of power over inferior married people . |
| 25 | The " act of identity " is thus construed broadly as a pattern of behaviour over a largish domain , rather than , say , as an instant in the production of talk , where a choice between two phonetic realisations of the same phoneme is required . |
| 26 | The emphasis on closer trade ties with the US was also interpreted as a signal of impatience over the lack of progress on Turkey 's application for European Community membership . |
| 27 | The communiqué , dated May 27 , reiterated Pyongyang 's past efforts to avoid formalizing a " permanent split " of the Korean peninsula through dual membership , but concluded that " we have no alternative but to enter the UN at the present stage as a step to tide over such temporary difficulties created by the South Korean authorities " . |
| 28 | Writers with a preference for market over regulatory solutions ( whom we will refer to generically as ‘ market theorists ’ ) insist that management and shareholder interests are adequately aligned by market forces , and therefore that the lack of shareholder participation in the internal processes of control need give no cause for concern , and certainly does not indicate the necessity for any kind of external intervention . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ We have met with a wall of silence over this business . |
| 30 | The sauce was thin with a layer of sediment over the bottom of the pan . |