Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE French Grand Prix was yesterday restored to the 1993 Formula One schedule after settlement of a dispute over an anti-smoking law . |
| 2 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 3 | The Hawaiian Islands provide a classic example of a volcanic line , and the generally accepted explanation of this type of feature involves the passage of part of a plate over a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly which , through the periodic generation of magma in the overlying crust sequence of volcanic activity at the surface ( Fig |
| 4 | Perhaps the other girl did n't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 6 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 7 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 8 | A little breeze had got up and the bottom of a blind over an open window was being knocked on the sill . |
| 9 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 10 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 11 | His description of the recovery of a Hunter over a Swiss airshow served as another graphic reminder that a performance should emphasize the aircraft 's character but should utilize only the established skills of the pilot — and should never require his super-human efforts to get out of a situation . |
| 12 | If experiments such as creep or stress relaxation are performed on the same sample of a polymer over a range of temperatures a pattern of behaviour is apparent that as long ago as 1943 led to the proposal of a " master curve " to which all observations could be reduced . |
| 13 | The row over Landsat equipment comes on top of a dispute over a ground station that China has set up in Peking , with American help , for receiving data from US and Japanese meteorological satellites . |
| 14 | Checklists are not appropriate for people who do not have inti-mate knowledge of a child over a period of some weeks . |
| 15 | Following a visit to Beijing to sign an agreement on Hong Kong 's airport project [ see p. 38340 ] , the UK Prime Minister , John Major , paid a one-day visit to Hong Kong on Sept. 6 during which he promised to intervene personally with Chinese leaders in the event of a dispute over the status of Hong Kong . |
| 16 | It is thought that the presumption contained in subs ( 3 ) in relation to the purchase of land would be applied by analogy in the event of a dispute over the ownership of other assets purchased in similar circumstances . |
| 17 | CAN anyone help solve the devil of a mystery over a Middlesbrough landmark ? |
| 18 | Littlewoods could be on the verge of a decision over the future of the mail-order operations but making the business an irresistible buy will take a dramatic burst of salesmanship by the Moores family which owns this Liverpool group , and their merchant bankers at Kleinwort Benson . |
| 19 | EVIDENCE was growing last night of a cover-up over a British Airways jumbo jet captured in Kuwait by Iraqi troops as the Gulf War erupted . |
| 20 | THE postponed replay of a battle over a five-a-side football complex has kicked off in earnest . |
| 21 | The Australian & Oversees Telecommunications Corp has come up with a novel scheme to motivate its staff : alongside an immediate pay award of 3% and the prospect of a 5% over the next 18 months the company has promised $340 for each of 70,000 of its workers , the payment of which depends on customers ' rating of the service which they receive ; surveys will determine what proportion of customers are satisfied with billing , connections and fault-finding . |
| 22 | Does " If it 's raining the balcony is wet " mean , in however large a tolerable sense , something about other conditions-say the absence of a canopy over the balcony and so on ? |
| 23 | The other respondent favoured amalgamation with Green Haven on the same educational grounds ( the superiority of a two-teacher over a one-teacher school ) , but denied that there was a valid way of life argument for keeping Village school open . |
| 24 | The pound plunged to a record low against the mark yesterday in the wake of a row over a document revealing how Germany tried to prop sterling . |
| 25 | In theory , a horse with a rating two points higher than his rivals is considered to be 2lb — the equivalent of a length over a mile and a half - superior . |
| 26 | In theory , a horse with a rating two points higher than his rivals is considered to be 2lb — the equivalent of a length over a mile and a half - superior . |
| 27 | A report by the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists ( ICJ ) released on April 28 severely criticized the UK government for denying Hong Kong residents the right of self-determination in the form of a referendum over the terms of the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration [ for which see pp. 33656-57 ] . |
| 28 | In a typical case in which a husband , seeking a bank advance for his business purposes , is told by his bank manager that security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home must be provided , it would astonish both the husband and the bank manager to be told that the husband had been appointed by the bank as its agent to obtain the wife 's consent to the proposed charge . |
| 29 | The bank wanted security in the form of a charge over the jointly owned matrimonial home . |
| 30 | This has some advantages , as the rotational envelope results in a spreading of the intensity of a band over a wide range , and may lead to overlapping of bands due to different vibrations . |