Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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1 | I want to thank also er the different organisations , cos you made an absolute profit for the G P O , er erm British Telecom , they must have actually made a bomb in Leicestershire over the last few days . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | PREMIER John Major is preparing for a showdown with France over the crucial Gatt trade deal . |
4 | PREMIER John Major is preparing for a showdown with France over the crucial Gatt trade deal . |
5 | Serious political divisions within the Congress , whose proceedings were brought to a standstill in October over the impeachment of the Minister of Public Works and Communications and the subsequent dismissal of the Congress president [ see pp. 37771-72 ] , threatened prolonged instability as did continued labour protests against anti-inflationary measures , culminating in a 24-hour general strike on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38001 ] . |
6 | He said Christopher Davies who was working in the shop Butterflys on Grange Road , Darlington , was injured during a fracas with Cowper over the theft of a £11.75 torch . |
7 | Regulations for the Ukrainian army were being drafted , following criticism from the Supreme Soviet in a statement in April over the slow formation of Ukrainian armed forces . |
8 | The Hungarian government has issued a protest to Czechoslovakia over the continued construction work on the Gabcikovo Dam on the Danube — a focus of growing tension between the two countries [ see ED 57 ; passim ] . |