Example sentences of "[noun] over the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jewel in the crown , however , is the arched aqueduct over the River Calder . |
| 2 | When east-west tension was at its height , RAF pilots were called on daily to intercept the Bear over the North Sea . |
| 3 | British officials believe the key summit issues are solving Danish doubts over the Maastricht Treaty , and agreeing on EC finances for the rest of the decade . |
| 4 | Now , for the first time in over a decade there is uncertainty over the Chelsea veteran 's inclusion . |
| 5 | As they involved a great deal of the same work to bring them into effect — work that would have taken a considerable time — and would have imposed further contingent or actual liabilities on funds at a time when there was already considerable anxiety because of the uncertainty over the Barber judgment — |
| 6 | LENNIE Lawrence faces a selection dilemma over the FA Cup fifth round replay against Portsmouth at Ayresome Park on Wednesday night . |
| 7 | THE WAR of words over the John Birt affair intensified yesterday when the former managing director of the BBC , Bill Cotton , criticised six senior journalists within the corporation for writing to the Times backing Mr Birt . |
| 8 | The School was inevitably to be affected during the 1930s by the Great Depression:3 even the forces of Nature were conspirators : " During the storm on Tuesday last " [ reported the Stockport Advertiser on 1st August 1930 ] the pinnacle of the main gable on the south side over the Sykes lecture room was struck by lightning and split , some of the stonework being dislodged . |
| 9 | The controversy extends to the US Administration , where many officials were kept in the dark over the White House initiatives . |
| 10 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 11 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 12 | A number of techniques were evaluated by Bowker and Hill ( 1987 ) in an investigation of geophysical methods over the Gairloch deposit in northern Scotland . |
| 13 | Be-1 , Pao and S-Cargo , made in small volumes and sold in Japan at premiums over the Micra model on which they are based , may not be to everyone 's taste . |
| 14 | ‘ Tradition dies hard and it may well be that many zealous companions will go on quoting Syriac and Egyptian and perpetuating this extraordinary jumble of explanations , ’ wrote Canon Richard Tydeman , Grand Superintendent over the Suffolk province of Freemasonry , in 1985 . |
| 15 | England will now play Ghana in the semi-finals on Wednesday and Brazil , 3–0 winners over the USA , take on Australia . |
| 16 | Ozone depletion over the UK was 21 per cent greater than normal over the UK this spring , 10 per cent higher than last year . |
| 17 | This was seen as a move to improve relations with Western countries and to end the impasse over the Lockerbie affair [ see pp. 38883 ; 39072 ; 39168 ] . |
| 18 | After years of trying the 26-year-old Blackburn former world champion scored his first win in the North West 200 when he took the superbike race before 60,000 excited fans over the Portstewart-Coleraine-Portrush circuit today . |
| 19 | To express their grief over the Warrington atrocity , the people of Dublin sent thousands of floral tributes to Liverpool this morning with the Irish Air Corps . |
| 20 | In the Pilkington final two years ago , they ran riot over the Cherry and Whites . |
| 21 | For example , he had to finish off Giraud and establish sole command over the CFLN . |
| 22 | Conversely , British action over the Falkland Islands in 1982 was , for realists , very much a matter of international prestige , while the Gulf War of 1991 involved control of oil resources essential to the security of the participants . |
| 23 | The petrochemicals company Exxon have reached an agreement with the Alaskan and US federal governments on a final settlement of the legal action over the Exxon Valdez oil spill . |
| 24 | But in Arab eyes , Western action over the Gulf crisis since August 1990 is merely a renewal of US and British imperialism . |
| 25 | A second survey covered Northern Ireland at a similar density ( Applied Geochemistry Research Group , 1973 ) and revealed an arsenic anomaly over the Sperrin Mountains where the Curraghinalt gold deposit was later found . |
| 26 | A visit to Turkey by Foreign Affairs Minister , Farooq ash-Shar " in mid-June 1990 , failed to settle the disputes over the Euphrates and border security and relations remained strained . |
| 27 | On 9 July , Sgt Smith and a colleague were in a dogfight with an enemy aircraft over the North Sea , south-east of Great Yarmouth . |
| 28 | There are some tantalising references to a defence of " fair information on a matter of public interest " , notably in the case of Webb v Times Publishing Co : Donald Hume murdered Stanley Setty , cut up his body and threw it out of an aircraft over the Essex marshes . |
| 29 | Innu Indians Simon Michel and Mary-Ann Michel , delivering a petition to Canada House , London , yesterday , protesting at noise and pollution from low-flying Nato aircraft over the Labrador-Quebec peninsula which they say is threatening their survival by killing the animals they hunt . |
| 30 | Records look set to crash in the National after Double Silk beat the clock on his majestic winning march over the Aintree fences . |