Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] over a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In one missing person inquiry she had claimed success because the runaway girl had telephoned home , but no one could prove or disprove that Ruby 's meditation over a favourite pair of tights had influenced her . |
| 2 | Upton Southern shed 5p to 40p in reaction to the chairman 's resignation over a policy disagreement . |
| 3 | Upton Southern shed 5p to 40p in reaction to the chairman 's resignation over a policy disagreement . |
| 4 | By spreading the impactor 's mass over a wide area , fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and aerobraking ; hence a fragmenting object stops more abruptly , surrendering its kinetic energy more explosively , than does a non-fragmenting object . |
| 5 | As you know because of the activities of benefit 's action over a couple of years , Social Fund in Harlow was quite good because we urged people to apply and Social Fund was then based on the year before 's applications , but this does n't apply now . |
| 6 | With baits cast into the new areas we settled down to review the week 's action over a coffee . |
| 7 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 8 | Marks must have retired long since but he might still be around and , on the principle that half an hour 's chat over a beer is worth a whole file of police gobbledegook , Kersey decided to enquire and found that Marks was still extant , sharing a bungalow with his sister and her husband in Newlyn . |
| 9 | At the time , it seemed that nothing could break Ceauşescu 's hold over a servile and cowardly Party élite . |
| 10 | This was a development which of course took place in Picasso 's work over a period of many months . |
| 11 | Looping the dog 's lead over a handy gatepost , she came back . |
| 12 | A churchman 's conscience over a sacred oath was the stumbling-block here . |
| 13 | It was in this period too that a club 's control over a player was first challenged in the law courts . |
| 14 | The Secretary of State can not interfere on a parent 's behalf over a curricular matter until the complaint has been pursued via the local complaints machinery . |
| 15 | ‘ You 've killed our Baron 's knight over a couple of alehouse wenches . |
| 16 | The parallel rakes of badger claws show up on scratching posts , such as fallen logs or the trunks of trees , as well as in the bare earth surrounding a sett or on a badger 's path over a hedgebank. 4 . |
| 17 | An ‘ At Home ’ in June 1989 , and , most recently the Annual Reunion Dinner with the highest turnout yet , over 120 ex-Manorians returning to enjoy one another 's company over a good meal . |
| 18 | These results come from a wide variety of sources , ranging from laboratory experiments using electric shocks to analyses of one person 's memory over a number of years , from experimental subjects ’ memories of autopsy slides to normal people 's memory for hearing about Kennedy 's assassination . |
| 19 | Letters have been flying between number ten and Mr Kinnock 's office over a Commons debate on Britain 's entry into the Exchange Rate Mechanism . |
| 20 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 21 | The 1930s and 1940s saw the collapse of UK hegemony and the consolidation of the United States ' hegemony over a new international economic system . |
| 22 | Pisistratus had made Eleusis a symbol of the unity of Attica ; for the fifth-century Athenians it was that , and a symbol of Athens ' rule over a united Aegean as well . |
| 23 | Most drama schools final productions are staged over a similar sort of schedule , which means agents are asked to see students ' work over a fairly compressed period . |
| 24 | In many situations there would seem to be an obvious need for a CD approach to health care , professionals and communities working together to increase communities ' hold over a precarious existence , tackling causes rather than symptoms . |
| 25 | Audible and visual warnings will attract workers ' attention over a wide area to a potential or actual hazard . |
| 26 | And having committed the boy to a day on the rubbish , he could hardly turn me down when I suggested we settle for a couple of hours ' conversation over a few beers , after he 'd sorted out the mess . |
| 27 | Initial recordings were obtained in the cell attached configuration , and Fig 1A shows the activity of a single K + channel over a range of pipette potentials in one experiment . |
| 28 | Declining per capita income over a prolonged period of time usually results in a change of government , sometimes after a revolution or a military coup . |