Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] of [noun] 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 | The examination of all the images produced during a particular period or of a selection of images over a longer period will often provide a good idea of how the relevant state or regime wished to represent itself . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Undertake the management of the care of a group of patients over a period of time and organise the appropriate support service . |
| 9 | Mr Favell resigned as John Major 's official Commons aide when the Premier was Chancellor because of a clash of views over Europe . |
| 10 | While all kadis were appointed by the state and received allowances , for example , certainly in the period under review only the most important of the muftis received official appointments or salaries ; and indeed , even the salary of the Mufti of Istanbul , until the very end of the period , was considerably smaller than the allowances ( to say nothing of the income ) of a number of kadis over whom he clearly took precedence , the pattern possibly having been established by the perhaps consciously modest demands made by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 11 | The deaths in police custody of a number of detainees over the years have also been controversial . |
| 12 | This change of outlook was the result of a fusing of perceptions over some years about the character and behaviour of the West Indians as partners in the project of amelioration and gradual emancipation . |
| 13 | The population level remained stable despite a surplus of baptisms over burials . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The real wage rate obviously rises as a result of an expansion of output over this range . |
| 16 | Dawn slopped like a bucket of blood over the greasy waves of Lake Pontchartrain , splashing the seaside slum of Bucktown in red … |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So why do n't we both get back to work now , instead of nattering on like a couple of housewives over the garden fence ? ’ |
| 19 | From its inception until 1954 the EDC treaty hung like a sword of Damocles over French politics , albeit only one of many problems that afflicted government . |
| 20 | At one level this meant that the exiguous legal structure of this relationship afforded much social power to the landowner , whose ability to terminate the tenancy at pleasure might hang like a sword of Damocles over the heads of his tenant farmers . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The meeting took place against a background of disputes over ( i ) the extent to which whale populations had recovered to levels which permitted sustainable hunting ; ( ii ) the system by which hunting quotas might be determined ; and ( iii ) whether whale killing was inherently unethical . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | You were set up for life with them , ’ Olive Fitzgerald of the Samaritans , bracing for a flood of calls over the next few months on their telephone helpline , told Reuters ' man . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And they 're just doing it as a matter of course over there . |
| 30 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |