Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A press conference on the subject , which was scheduled for Monday , was cancelled due to the suicide of former Prime Minister Pierre Beregovoy over the weekend . |
| 2 | A High Court judge on Dec. 2 severely criticized alleged failings on the part of Home Secretary Kenneth Baker over the proposed deportation of an Indian Sikh dissident ( Karamjit Singh Chahal ) who had sought political asylum in the United Kingdom . |
| 3 | The government has been obsessed with secrecy as is indicated by the prosecution of Clive Ponting and Sarah Tisdall over the disclosure of material covered by the Official Secrets Act and by their efforts to prevent the publication of Spycatcher by Peter Wright . |
| 4 | Negotiations on the formation of an East German government were accompanied by great controversy in both East and West Germany over the terms for the introduction of German monetary union . |
| 5 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 6 | Wielding the gavel in front of 1,500 people in sweltering heat under a tent on a village football pitch , Paris auctioneer Jacques Tajan sold off the entire contents of the château of antique dealer Bernard Steinitz over the weekend of 29-31 May for FFr 20,049,290 ( £2,045,845 ; $3,682,522 ) . |
| 7 | McAuley , who has driven for the factory teams of Swift and Van Diemen over the past two years , had hoped to graduate to Formula Three this season , but was unable to raise the £150,000 budget . |
| 8 | She turned to the end of the document and saw a signature S. KETTERING over the address of the villa , LA FELICITÀ , MONDANO-IN-CHIANTI , SIENA , ITALY . |
| 9 | Christopher Boyle and Darren Mills had struck a deal with David Hawthorne over the sale of t-shirts . |
| 10 | DAVE BASSETT last night hit out angrily at David Hirst over the England striker 's horror tackle on Sheffield United left-back Tom Cowan . |
| 11 | THREE people were rescued from a yacht which got into difficulties in heavy seas off Bardsey Island over the weekend . |
| 12 | SDLP leader John Hume has clashed with Unionist MP David Trimble over the impact of his continuing talks with Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's right , love , ’ shouted Mrs. Hennessy over the noise , as she switched on the vacuum-cleaner . |
| 14 | It is near this point that the Pennine Way crosses Swaledale from Tan Hill over the bleak mass of Stonesdale Moor , falling down into Keld and on by Thwaite to Shunner Fell . |
| 15 | But it certainly was not all rest and relaxation for Courtney Walsh over the winter . |
| 16 | After the election in February , 1974 , Edward Heath stayed put in Downing Street over the weekend while trying to do a deal with Jeremy Thorpe , the Liberal leader . |
| 17 | Reports in weekend newspapers of a rift between Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson over the recent rise in interest rates and the value of sterling also contributed to the fall . |
| 18 | Izvestiya of July 24 noted that the US-based human rights group Helsinki Watch , had expressed concern to Uzbek President Islam Karimov over the incident . |
| 19 | The western edge of these Atlantic gems are fringed by wonderful , white , shell-sand beaches , backed by flower-bright , green machair plains ; the east coast is rugged and inhospitable , bounding a trackless land , confronting mainland Scotland over the stormy Minch , beyond Cuillin on Skye . |
| 20 | ‘ I had rather a rough passage with Canon Wheeler over the sermon , ’ she said , and explained . |
| 21 | Which is why we will invest R8 million in South Africa over the next three years alone . |
| 22 | Following months of negotiations [ see p. 38517 ] it was announced on Aug. 21 that agreement had been reached with South Africa over the administration of the Walvis Bay enclave . |
| 23 | In order to focus the attention on the official opening of Norseman Park , a unique set of events took place at Red Lake over the weekend of July 25/26/ Organisers involved the whole township in myriad different functions , ranging from a fly-in pancake breakfast , Norseman loading competitions ( using the fuselage hulk of CF–GBI ) , float pumping contests , pilots discussions and lectures , to a street fair , in which the whole of the main street in Red Lake was closed to traffic , marquees were erected , street bands played , food and drink was consumed and a carnival atmosphere was enjoyed by all . |
| 24 | Comparing chloride concentration with rainfall at St Louis and water flow in the Senegal River over the same period has displayed the signature of droughts ( in the 1970s , 1940s and 1910s ) and of intervening periods of higher rainfall and river flow . |
| 25 | This incident set the pattern for my relationship with Frank Dick over the ensuing seven years . |
| 26 | Despite carding his worst round of the championship , a two over par 74 , he held his nerve to see off the challenge of defending champion Eamonn Darcy over the testing K Club course . |
| 27 | Then there was the excitement of finding out about this strange miniature town with its open view of the North Sea over the mud flats . |
| 28 | The EC representative Robert Walker , who had arrived in Mogadishu in August to oversee the distribution by relief agencies of European emergency aid worth US$23,000,000 , was in late October liaising with President Mahdi Mohammed over the government 's own plans for emergency aid . |
| 29 | Italtel SpA is to install around 400,000 lines for Telecom Argentina SA over the next three years in a deal worth $600m : it says it will install the first 58,000 lines this year and the rest of them by 1996 |
| 30 | But it is one thing to thumb your nose at Mr Gorbachev over the Kremlin wall , as many thousands did in a demonstration in Moscow last weekend . |