Example sentences of "a [noun sg] of [art] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an hour to go before Betty Boothroyd faced her destiny , I suggested to a leading Tory fixer that his party was in a bit of a pucker over who its preferred candidate should be . |
| 2 | Morals , attitudes , again , there 's a bit of a cross over there . |
| 3 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 4 | So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent . |
| 5 | " They 're in a bit of a twitch over there , I need hardly say . " |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Several minutes rock still and the sentries no doubt mistook him for a part of the shore over which the seas were gently breaking . |
| 8 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 9 | The Corps originated in 1859 when the Volunteer Movement was formed as a result of the panic over the threat of a French invasion . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Just before serving pour a dessert-spoonful of the vinaigrette over the mixture . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Athelstan breathed a prayer for patience , made a sign of the cross over himself and followed suit . |
| 15 | Certainly to explain the Incarnation in a quarter of an hour over the air is a tall order , but Lewis could surely have done better than to say , ‘ If you want to get the hang of it , think how you would like to become a slug or a crab . ’ |
| 16 | FIG. 2 Evidence that the wound closes by a movement of the epidermis over the mesenchyme . |
| 17 | Intel also filed a motion asking Judge William Ingram to reconsider or to certify his April 15 ruling demanding a retrial of the case over the microcode in the 80287 maths co-processor , which Intel says Advanced Micro was not entitled to use . |
| 18 | The £3.2m investment in the pottery includes the provision of new kilns and is expected to result in a trebling of the workforce over the next four years . |
| 19 | Blufton had carefully manicured his image as a man of the people over the past couple of years , the sergeant went on , preferring to give interviews in an open-necked shirt and jeans — both with designer labels — rather than wear a suit . |
| 20 | Just a wringing of the hands over the ferment which is developing in Europe . ’ |
| 21 | The European Commission continued during this period to pursue a resolution of the conflict over technical standards for high definition television ( HDTV ) broadcasting in the single market after 1993 . |
| 22 | The government survived the threat in March of a motion of no confidence over its latest series of radical economic initiatives outlined in the recent 1992-93 budget [ see p. 38762 ] . |
| 23 | But perhaps it is not too simple to suggest that we are also conscious of Zuckerman as a deflection of the wrath over Roth which works by making Zuckerman responsible for the outrage . |
| 24 | The judge can not say them to a member of the family over breakfast , or in a country where the death penalty has been abolished . |
| 25 | It is frightening , a triumph of the will over material circumstances . |
| 26 | These are all labelled , not with the usual words , but with symbols , so you have a diagram of a keyboard over the keyboard socket for example . |
| 27 | The use of the model for policy analysis generally presupposes that a forecast of the economy over a period of several years is available . |
| 28 | The juice of the berries from these West Indian plants produced a bright red dye , and by standing stalks of flowers such as tuberose and narcissus in a solution of the dye over night , he obtained some blooms ‘ finely variegated with red ’ . |