Example sentences of "of [noun] [prep] the [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 | Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Admiralty Pacific would like to send 25 million tonnes of garbage to the islands over the next five years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Cos of uncertainty about the arrangement over long period , decided to opt for one-year-only subscription . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There was a sudden , yawning silence broken only by the slight hiss of oxygen to the mask over Mrs Thompson 's face . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There 's a bottle of vodka in the cupboard over the desk in there . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | If so , they would be prepared to supply further evidence of use of the path over a number of years . |
| 25 | THE HISTORY of belief in the supernormal over the past hundred years is studded with the names of famous illusionists who have sought to prove that much-vaunted miracles were nothing more than conjuring tricks . |
| 26 | That we really are putting a tremendous number of people on the street over the course of the year , erm that the general public are facing . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , Hunt had carried out further costing work for Barry on the Houses of Parliament , and when Hall arrived at the Office of Works with the dispute over expenditure between Barry and the Office at its height , he shrewdly persuaded Hunt to change sides in an attempt to gain the upper hand . |
| 28 | The Interfax news agency reported on Nov. 24 that Hetman , whose resignation because of " illness " had been confirmed by parliament the day before , had gone because of differences with the government over currency policy . |
| 29 | A succession of senior ministers played down speculation about the leadership by denying the existence of divisions in the Cabinet over Europe and calling on MPs not to divide the party with talk of a leadership contest . |
| 30 | On July 10 the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) passed by 194 to 95 votes , with 23 abstentions , a law for the return of property to the churches over a period of 10 years . |