Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [prep] a [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Hattersley , however , looks set for defeat in a vote over reducing the age of homosexual consent from 21 to 16 . |
| 2 | THE French Grand Prix was yesterday restored to the 1993 Formula One schedule after settlement of a dispute over an anti-smoking law . |
| 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 | Latest costings showed his cows giving 9,595 litres of milk with a margin over purchased feed of £1,545 and a gross margin per hectare at a ‘ staggering ’ £4,611 . |
| 5 | Badr al-Din Mahmud ( Kadizade : kadi of Aleppo from 963/1555–6 to 967/1560 ) , also later to become Mufti of Istanbul , and in one specific case , quoted by Ata'i , was overruled by him ; while Molla Muslih al-Din Mustafa ( Circinzade Mustafa ) , appointed muderris/mufti in Bosnasarayi in 965/1557–8 , fought the kadi of Bosnasarayi to a standstill over certain matters , both then making representations to Istanbul and both being removed from office for their pains . " |
| 6 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and reliance of a wife on her husband to make business decisions justified the ‘ tenderness ’ extended by equity toward married women who acted as sureties for their husbands . |
| 7 | The likelihood of influence by a husband over his wife and of reliance by a wife on her husband to make the business decisions for the family was the justification in the first place for the tenderness of equity towards married women who gave their property as security for their husband 's debts . |
| 8 | Melt remainder with the coffee and one tablespoon of water in a bowl over hot water . |
| 9 | Her room was so grubby too , with nothing but a bed in it and that bidet and that bit of rag for a curtain over the small old propped-up suitcase and some clothes . |
| 10 | He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Where the court held that a fixed charge had been created in favour of a bank over book debts ( in this case bills of exchange ) where the charge provided that the company could not charge or assign these debts and , most importantly , had to pay the proceeds into an account with the chargee bank which the company could not operate without the consent of the bank . |
| 13 | A SCOTS Guard who scarred a man for life in a row over spilt beer was yesterday jailed for 12 months . |
| 14 | FOOD giant Safeway have paid £1,500 for bunting on a bridge over the Thames in Reading , Berks — so swans do n't fly into the stonework . |
| 15 | Share the tension and drama as the last Lancaster bomber is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 16 | Share the tension and the drama as the last Lancaster is ‘ talked down ’ to safety after a raid over enemy territory . |
| 17 | Hundreds of staff at polytechnic and further education colleges have been on strike in a protest over pay . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They were alone , face to face across a table over a carafe of water , which gave the camera time — the programme lasted an hour and ten minutes , less advertising breaks — to examine them minutely . |
| 20 | There was the handsome , twenty-year-old Warrant Officer Jean Navarre , who chalked up the Cigognes ' first victories at Verdun with a right-and-a-left over Fort Douaumont the day after its fall . |
| 21 | A LEICESTERSHIRE village is riven by controversy in a dispute over ‘ progressive ’ versus traditional teaching methods in a local primary school . |