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

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1 British Steel on Thursday appeared to add a faint glimmer of hope into the controversy over a plan to switch thousands of tonnes of limestone dust from rail to road .
2 These cases highlight the need for vigilance in patients at risk and suggest that the epidemic of parvovirus in the UK over the latter part of 1992 is still continuing .
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 Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months .
5 Le Monde had reported on June 29 that Wolfgang Schauble , the West German Interior Minister , had complained of disagreements with the Netherlands over policies toward drugs , but that the five still hoped to remove their respective border controls by January 1991 .
6 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 .
7 Today 's talks on spending comes amid reports of splits in the Cabinet over the best way of meeting the £244.5bn ceiling for 1993-94 spending .
8 Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years .
9 Mrs Winterton said letters should not be sent to the ‘ converted ’ who might find them an irritant , suggesting a change of tactics since the campaign over the Alton Bill .
10 Similarly , in a major study of investment in the EC over the period 1961–90 , the relation between net investment and the rate of profitability per unit of capital stock was found to be highly significant .
11 Cos of uncertainty about the arrangement over long period , decided to opt for one-year-only subscription .
12 Police in Chelmsford believe that a robbery in a park toilet may be linked to other crimes of violence in the area over the last few months .
13 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 . "
14 At the same moment , a drumming and scraping of feet on the bridge over the moat signalled the arrival of the estate workers from the cottages outside the manor wall …
15 This is a time of austerity , of playing with ration books , of knowing we are " overcrowded " , of squabbles between the women over doing the stairs and cleaning the toilet that are handed down to us children in the form of sectarian rivalries .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown .
19 Meanwhile , Coventry City manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on .
20 COVENTRY CITY manager Bobby Gould has slammed West Bromwich Albion 's board of directors as the row over his banning from The Hawthorns rumbles on .
21 There was a sudden , yawning silence broken only by the slight hiss of oxygen to the mask over Mrs Thompson 's face .
22 Quality Circles have received a lot of attention in the media over the last three years but , in general , studies of Circles have so far been limited to subjective analysis by interested parties .
23 Lloyd George might think that in beating Wilson over the space requirements of Asiatics in the debate over the Merchant Shipping Act in 1906 he was delivering the working classes from their unworthy prejudices against foreign seamen , but the seamen thought that they knew better .
24 Others argued with the view I expressed that life these days , because of changes in the law over the years , is better and fairer for women .
25 THE MISSING link reappears at Goodwood this afternoon in the shape of Ile De Nisky ( 2.45 ) , the horse who represents the prime piece of evidence in the argument over the comparative merits of Nashwan and Old Vic , writes John Karter .
26 Melt remainder with the coffee and one tablespoon of water in a bowl over hot water .
27 When Geoffrey le Bel was unable to arbitrate in person between the seneschal and the monks of Baugé in a quarrel over tithes in 1146 , he insisted that his part in the case be acknowledged .
28 This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event .
29 There 's a bottle of vodka in the cupboard over the desk in there .
30 It was intended to see if the total programme of instruction-orientation , introduction and advanced courses in information retrieval affected the pattern of use of the library over a period of five years .
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