Example sentences of "be [art] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 She had been told on one occasion by the EP that Tom 's behaviour problems might have been the result of frustration over reading difficulties .
2 There 's been a chorus of condemnation over the British National Party 's election victory in Tower Hamlets .
3 In the USA , it notes , there has been a storm of protest over a government decision not to insist on tests and labelling of genetically modified foods , which has led to calls for boycotts of gene foods .
4 There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such .
5 There 's been a lot of concern over the past few months of the rate of increase in unemployment within the Harrogate District and how as a percentage unemployment has increased in the Harrogate District rather than other districts .
6 I suppose in the nineteen fifties we all thought that was the answer to energy production , but there seem to have been a lot of problems over these since then .
7 The river was n't visible , but there had been a lot of rain over that week and one corner of the field had flooded , leaving a shallow temporary loch reflecting the tarnished dark silver of the clouds ; its waters were still and flat .
8 There 's really been a lot of trouble over it !
9 John Kay , the Sunderland Supporters Association 's Player of the Year has been a model of consistency over the season tough , dependable and never over-awed by the occasion .
10 But there 've been a number of changes over the years , certainly prior to nineteen seventy four that would be the case , water boards supplying water , local councils treating treating the sewage , and the rivers authorities looking after the river pollution aspects .
11 The implications for my daughter 's safety and security , and and mine and the rest of my family 's , because there have been a number of occasions over the years when I 've had to turn to the police because of my anxiety about that when there 's been a lot of attention from the media and when the press have published our address and so on erm and we 've had I 've had specific death threats particularly against my daughter on one occasion .
12 These clips are a triumph of form over content , and by the time you reach the four live songs that close this boxful of banging and shouting , it 's a relief to know that at least this is roughly what they 're really like when they 're not busy being hyperactive .
13 ‘ There are a couple of rooms over the stables , ’ he told her .
14 Peter Peacock , of Highland Region , the secretary of the group , said it did not wish to be the cause of disunity over the water issue .
15 But after Hereford 's defeat by Doncaster last week , it may be a case of confidence over conscience .
16 The main reason seems to be a difference of opinion over the Italian state 's role as lender of last resort to troubled banks .
17 And so there must be an element of doubt over having updated from nineteen eighty one here to nineteen eighty nine .
18 While experience may show that certain tasks were not as good discriminators as others there is likely to be an abundance of evidence over the three-year period for teachers to use .
19 Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals .
20 It is the lack of disagreement over fundamentals that distinguishes mature , normal science from the relatively disorganized activity of immature pre-science .
21 An important feature of both the bought deal and traditional syndication is the lack of discipline over the price at which members of the syndicate sell bonds .
22 In the standard b -boundary construction , the Riemannian manifold is the bundle of frames over space-time having a positive definite metric induced by the affine connection .
23 The idea is the victory of life over death .
24 ‘ The convulsion of war has opened our eyes to many strange things ’ , he wrote in 1919 , ‘ Few of us had realised till war had exposed it how thin is the veneer of civilisation over the underlying animal proclivities … the failure of religion to direct , and education to balance , the actions of men . ’
25 The most important right is the right of lien over guests ' property .
26 It 's incredible : it 's the triumph of commercialism over culture and our whole history ’ .
27 There 's a gratuitousness of form over content : so much more is done than is ‘ required ’ for the purposes of communication , so much flaunting and adornment .
28 so providing they just play it steadily they should be alright , there 's a lot of discrimination over the Australian defeat in the paper , they reckon that if erm
29 ‘ There 's a lot of ducks over there by the stream , ’ she said .
30 ‘ There 's a body of opinion over here that we 're too British , ’ adds Fruitbat , ‘ and that does make me feel like I 'm banging my head against a wall at times .
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