Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ But they love to push up and that might leave them vulnerable to the ball over the top .
2 Harris , restored to the team for this match , was first to the ball over the line and Liley converted from the touchline .
3 It played at , among other places , the newly formed Leicester Square Jazz Club which met in premises belonging to the NSPCC over the Café de l'Europe .
4 President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution .
5 The trapeze hangs lightly from a toggle , the toggle hangs from the end of a proper fishing line , the line passes over a springy pole to the door over the mouth of the basket where the little fish 's wriggling so free .
6 Norman Tebbit and Cecil Parkinson were speaking at a meeting of the ‘ Conservative Way Forward ’ , a group of irreconcilables whose toast was to the Queen over the water .
7 ‘ And the king was much moved , and went up to the chamber over the gate , and wept : and as he went , thus he said , O my son Absalom , my son , my son Absalom ! would God I had died for thee , O Absalom , my son , my son ! ’
8 She drew away to the balcony over the lobby , feeling incapable , looking down at the bawling men in dinner jackets far below and the women with stiff hair .
9 Hundreds of people took to the water over the weekend to recreate ancient and strange boat races .
10 In contrast , by the time we get to the division over the standing army in 1699 — normally thought to have been a Court–Country rather than a party issue — there were only 36 Whigs out of a total of 221 on the Country side .
11 It is understood representations have been made to the BBC over the issue in recent days but the matter remains unresolved , according to senior Church figures .
12 Despite these reservations , we can say something of the landscape of the Saxon Deerhurst estate , because , even without the fine detail , we can see vast areas of arable and pasture in the Severn Valley , areas of woodland and waste to the west over the river , and upland pasture on the Cotswolds to the east in a detached part of the estate .
13 Anticlericalism elsewhere was sometimes simply a matter of anti-Roman pinpricks , as in Great Britain , when agitation arose about aristocratic conversions to Rome and the British Reformation Society could protest to the government over the appointment of a Roman Catholic viceroy of India and a Roman Catholic lord chamberlain .
14 Lumumba attempted to appeal to the public over the radio but he was turned away by Ghanaian troops acting under UN orders ( heading the UN mission was Ralph Bunche ) .
15 Meanwhile disagreement among the 72 deputies to the Assembly over the draft Constitution delayed its formal adoption until Feb. 9 .
16 A surrender to the farmers over the egg controversy , hesitancy in confronting the brewers , and some retreat in the face of the judges ' opposition to legal reform indicated that there were lobbies and vested interests which even the all-conquering Prime Minister could not challenge with impunity .
17 Attlee went to the country over the issue and lost the general election of October 1951 .
18 The spokesman said that China was making representations to the UK over the meeting .
19 Inside the panelled room Buckmaster picked up a malacca cane , pointed to the wall over the fireplace .
20 The 1991 accounts were not qualified by Touche Ross , and as Review Panel procedures dictate , the firm was reported to the Institute over the affair .
21 The proposals represented the federal government 's most significant contribution to the debate over the country 's future since the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord in 1990 [ see pp. 37519-20 ] .
22 They are central to the debate over the provision of legal services and the response to these issues will affect the formulation of policy .
23 I repeat it here , as in sections 3.3 to 3.5 we will be looking at three different theories , each of which takes a different starting-point to the debate over the service economy , which in turn influences their conceptual framework and what counts as valid kinds of evidence .
24 In July 1990 , in response to the uncertainty over the future of US bases in the Philippines , Brunei joined Singapore in offering the USA the option of operating its forces from Brunei .
25 They concluded that by taking people out of their own homes , however modest , they were being removed from conditions which they knew and made them feel secure into ‘ a new social environment in which priority is given to the collectivity over the individual . ’
26 He thought about the dogs in their holes under the snow , and listened to the wind over the house .
27 A small cottage was next to the terrace houses and like them had no garden but just a tiny yard and then came a doorway leading to the flat over the archway of Dean 's Yard .
28 Ted stood there waiting with the shirt over his arm , waiting to hear the inevitable sequence completed before he went on ; slam the van door , up the outside stairs to the flat over the workshop , another door to slam , and then LOUD MUSIC .
29 Any decision of the Panel executive will usually be given to the parties over the telephone .
30 The exhibition ‘ Al-Andalus : the art of Islamic Spain ’ was first shown at the Alhambra in Granada last spring and then moved to the Met over the summer .
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