Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the unholy alliance in favour of the National Curriculum is likely to come apart at the seams over the issue of resource , so also , given the very different aspirations of those who support its introduction , there is likely to be a parting of the ways over principles . |
| 2 | This took place amid rumours of a split within the NEC over support for a common age of consent , and was widely seen as a response to tabloid hysteria on such matters . |
| 3 | The March 12 resignation of a council member of the United People ( Herri Batasuna — the political wing of ETA ) suggested a split within the movement over tactics . |
| 4 | The Treasury view as proclaimed in 1929 was the work of Leith-Ross and others , and did not long survive the political circumstances of its birth — a split in the Cabinet over employment policy . |
| 5 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 6 | Ireland manager Jack Charlton is thought to have played a part in the delay over Keane 's announcement . |
| 7 | Erm Bradford and Leeds have er adopted a similar approach in their representations to er yourselves and certainly er I did not come here to take a er a part in the debate over specific figures . |
| 8 | You will have a look at the lines over the weekend , wo n't you ? |
| 9 | The professor was closely involved in a series of benevolence programmes for Israel , including the B'nai B'rith charity organisation , and was recently in Poland to negotiate a settlement in the row over the presence of a Catholic convent on the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp . |
| 10 | His parents had detected a smell in the room over the past few weeks and had noticed a damp patch . |
| 11 | According to Richard Ryder ( 1989 ) it was initiated by a division within the RSPCA over its persistent failure to oppose bloodsports . |
| 12 | With a change in the rules over foreign ownership of domestic airlines now likely ( see main story ) , there may soon be more bidders . |
| 13 | A TIP : If a power failure occurs ( or the mains have to be turned off ) temperature loss can be much reduced by just throwing a blanket from the bed over the aquarium . |
| 14 | The Corps originated in 1859 when the Volunteer Movement was formed as a result of the panic over the threat of a French invasion . |
| 15 | As a result of the controversy over the rejection by the Royal Academy of his portrait of T. S. Eliot , Lewis had resumed the kind of fame he had attained before the First World War . |
| 16 | The shortages were primarily a consequence of a blockade by Azerbaijan — itself a result of the dispute over Nagorny-Karabakh — which had forced the closure of pipelines bringing Turkmen gas to Armenia via Azerbaijan . |
| 17 | In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts . |
| 18 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Government over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 19 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Tories over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 20 | Dave Cook and myself planned to force a confrontation with the military over the issue of access to Range West . |
| 21 | Lord Tebbit refused to be daunted by the new legal ruling that a defeat for the Government over Labour 's amendment on the social chapter — which sets out rules on conditions and hours of work which apply throughout the rest of Europe — would not affect ratification . |
| 22 | The resignation of Labour Minister Erick Thompson Pineres in October [ see p. 37770 ] was seen as evidence of a rift in the Cabinet over the severity of the austerity programme . |
| 23 | What we did last night , stop for a chicken on the way over there . |
| 24 | And throughout the journey , the question asked by that woman in the beginning anchored the emphasis of this book , it shook a fist at the ghosts over my shoulder ( because like most people I give to others the power to intimidate and censor from afar ) and it forced me to make the chronicle accountable to its subjects . |
| 25 | CRYSTAL PALACE face a battle with the FA over their intention to claim compensation for the injury John Salako sustained on England duty last month . |
| 26 | If that promise had been promptly enforced — by putting a guard on the bridges over the Drina and Sava rivers , with aircraft to watch the roads that lead to the bridges — the size of the intervening soldiers ' task would have been sharply reduced . |
| 27 | This is a place in the sky over continental Europe which marks the start of the missile 's preset route . |
| 28 | Just before serving pour a dessert-spoonful of the vinaigrette over the mixture . |
| 29 | Most mortgagees have required specific consent from such persons to the taking of a charge by the mortgagee over the property or where they consent to a transfer of the property subject to the mortgage , coupled with confirmation from such persons that their rights are postponed to those of the mortgagee under its mortgage . |
| 30 | From this altitude their instruments view a swath of the Earth 's surface that extends 1500 km to either side of their suborbital tracks , so that a picture of the globe over a 24-hour period is built up . |