Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aspects of the Westland case also showed the dangers of a government monopoly over the dissemination of information and its resultant debate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The light , full and smooth , lay like a gold rind over the turf , the furze and yew bushes , the few wind-stunted thorn trees . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 'll also need a quantity of bitumen emulsion for use as a tack coat over the existing surface . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was a hunting watch — one of the new ones with a metal cover over the glass . |
| 14 | The seam allowances should be neatened , when not covered by a lining , with a machine zig-zag over the raw edges , or by overcasting . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ All I can say is that it will end with a question mark over the future . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gen. Chaovalit resigned his post ostensibly following a verbal exchange with a Cabinet colleague over the issue of corruption . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The 60 shops , with a glass roof over the courtyard , have a marketing committee on which he sits . |
| 23 | On Tue , 4 Jan 1994 , wrote : Worst joke to come from a scum supporter over the xmas hols . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He came up behind her , reaching out as water washed in a surface line over the glass of his vizor . |
| 27 | There was a reproduction of ‘ The light of the World ’ in a bamboo frame over the mantelpiece . |
| 28 | I will expand further on this dichotomy between quality and quantity of ‘ crime ’ in Chapter 5 , but would argue that the chase for numerical detections in which detectives everywhere are immersed moves them across another conceptual boundary and takes them into a statistical world away from their previous world as ‘ real polises ’ where the central classifier of conflict with the ‘ prig ’ remains , as ever , in a power struggle over the body ( Foucault 1977 ) . |
| 29 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 30 | Ah in fact there 's a case in London where they 've just recently charged a mother , where the firemen were called to a house fire over the weekend and erm during the , putting the fire out they discovered a child 's body er i on the settee . |