Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proposals to alter Zimbabwe 's Constitution , following the ending in April 1990 of the 10-year moratorium on constitutional changes , precipitated disagreements within the leadership of the ruling ZANU party , with President Robert Mugabe reportedly opposed by the majority of the politburo over his proposals to introduce a one-party state structure . |
| 2 | When they were both soaked in the greasy oil , she watched him pour the remainder of the bottle over the rubber sheet . |
| 3 | — The people commit themselves to a life of obedience , and Moses sprinkles the remainder of the blood over them ( verse 8 ) — identifying them with the sacrifice made on their behalf both initially and for the failures and sins of everyday life . |
| 4 | Using transactions data for the MMI for 1986 , Swinnerton , Curcio and Bennett ( 1988 ) found that the change in futures prices over the last five minutes had some predictive power for the change in the index over the next five minutes . |
| 5 | First , the existence of the plateaux over appreciable ranges of Vg ( Figure 2 ) does not match preconceived ideas for quantised motion . |
| 6 | In the discussions with the monks over the qualities of Benedict as Bishop it is stated that they carefully discussed the matter with each other and also with the Archbishop at the Prior 's lodgings and also at Halling . |
| 7 | At the heart of the battle over Sunday trading is the simple straightforward issue of profit and loss . ’ |
| 8 | At the heart of the debate over a squad system lies the virtue of continuity versus the flexibility of selection . |
| 9 | Only the defeat of Britain — now widely presumed to be a matter of course — stood in the way , it seemed , of that final victory , and the intoxication of the triumph over the French mingled with a widespread desire , whipped up by almost hysterical anti-British hate propaganda , for the total destruction of Britain . |
| 10 | A further challenge for the new ambassador is the discontent within the country over the government 's provision of $3 billion for the " conservation of the global environment " . |
| 11 | The advantage of the SAM over optical equipment for the same purpose , he says , depends on the fact that coal is black , and absorbs most of the light you point at it . |
| 12 | The advantage to the offeror over a share offer with a cash alternative is that it knows in advance that it will only have to make available fixed pools of each type of consideration . |
| 13 | A nerve-wracking wait added to the mounting psychological pressure as we charted the progress of the sun over the Anglesey seascape . |
| 14 | Another method is to take a sample of titles or subject areas and follow the progress of the sample over a number of years . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes , and would you be so kind as to fetch me The Economist from the table over there ? ’ |
| 16 | At this meeting it was decided by the Committee to approve the Constitution of the European Federation of Funeral Services on behalf of the N.A.F.D. As we hold the Presidency of E.F.E.S. it was decided that we would not vote in favour of any one particular city for the location of the registered office for E.F.F.S. , but would endorse the decision of the majority over this matter . |
| 17 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 18 | Gloucestershire County Council have appointed two Project Officers , Ann Edwards and Tony Jones , to explore the route of the path over the next year . |
| 19 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 20 | We had ample occupation watching the play of the clouds over the sides of the hills , and the bits of rugged moor and moss and flowing stream that enlivened the way ; but at a turning within some three miles of the inn of Kinlochewe , as we were about to pass the east-going mail gig with its complement of travellers , our driver jerked the horses into a ditch , which upset our machine and broke one of the springs . |
| 21 | Textermination thus privileges active participation in the creative process on the part of the reader over authoritative readings by professional interpreters . |
| 22 | It is , however , indicative of the political harmony and stability Edward had already achieved that the nobility did not seek to exploit the grievances of the community over taxation , purveyance and military service in order to impose measures of restraint upon the king . |
| 23 | For Smith , the difference is ‘ merely subjective ’ : the division within the enterprise is confined to one location and can be surveyed synoptically while in the case of the division of labour in society ‘ the spreading-out of the work over great areas and the great number of people employed in each branch of labour obscure the connection ’ ( paraphrased by Marx , 1976 , p. 475 ) . |
| 24 | When she did Athelstan poured the dregs of the wine over it , cleaned a dusty part of the room and put it beneath his cloak . |
| 25 | Exhausted , Morthen 's wounding cuts hurting her , she remained seated here , watching the cleft in the cliff over the gaunt and grimacing features of the man she had once loved . |
| 26 | A large sycamore tree growing in the front garden had branches which stretched along the side of the house over the trellis . |
| 27 | The drag of the cable over one wing can make the aircraft uncontrollable in a turn , making a serious crash almost inevitable . |
| 28 | This novel , with its chaotic narrative order and its prominent self-conscious authorial commentary , is an ideal example for the Formalists of the privileging of the syuzhet over the fabula . |
| 29 | How distant now seem the quarrels of the spring over the introduction of new short-range missiles . |
| 30 | Symptom scores were calculated from the questionnaires as the increase over the baseline score for autonomic symptoms ( sweating , heart pounding , warmness , anxiety , tingling , and trembling ) , neuroglycopenic symptoms ( inability to concentrate , confusion , drowsiness , tiredness , dizziness , weakness , blurred vision , and irritability ) , and total symptoms ( autonomic plus neuroglycopenic score ) . |