Example sentences of "[adj] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surprisingly Charity seemed to concede the point against her , but Peregrine observed cuttingly that Germany and Russia understood one another over Poland at least . |
| 2 | If it seems surprising that the same forms of rioting should recur from one place to another over lapses of time , it should be remembered that food rioting was neither an isolated nor a continuous form of popular action . |
| 3 | Would she have to face him across a court and wrangle with him in public over custody of Kirsty ? |
| 4 | The Interfax news agency reported demonstrations in St Petersburg on June 22 over access to television broadcasting . |
| 5 | Travel Club of Upminster ( 0708 225000 ) 1wk self-catering over Christmas in a two-bed villa at Vilamoura , £284 pp ; special offer 12 nts at Golden Beach apartments £278 ( 1st child 50 per cent off , 2nd child free ) , 1wk car hire £58 . |
| 6 | Moxon , whose recently broken finger is still badly bruised , started his big hitting by pulling Yorkshire-born Neil Mallender high over mid-wicket for six . |
| 7 | Heriot-Watt SCPE , who triumphed 2-1 over Edinburgh in the quarter-final of the British Universities ' women 's championship on Wednesday , will meet Cardiff in the semi-finals next Wednesday in Liverpool . |
| 8 | The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 . |
| 9 | Mrs Thatcher has been alarmed over reports from Washington that President Bush is already contemplating follow-on talks from the present East-West negotiations on conventional forces . |
| 10 | The mayor of Moscow , Gavriil Popov , threatened to resign on Dec. 10 over differences with the Moscow city council and the Russian Supreme Soviet over his programme of economic reform , particularly the proposed speed of privatization of housing and businesses within the city . |
| 11 | There 's one thing , best shot 's he played in that innings down at Hove and it was a short boundary , it was a good deal shorter , in fact this one we have here at Lord 's in this match , is a six over cover off good old Lester Piggott who was steaming downhill there at Hove all arms and legs and eased him over for six . |
| 12 | People are normally considered to be risk-averse over amounts of the order of magnitude of their incomes . |
| 13 | The the particular point that that I wish to pick up on though was from M Mr Curtis and his reference to erm the draft P P G thirteen , and whilst I 'd say that the point of the H B F that it 's only a draft publication at this stage , there 's in my view been too mu much over reliance on the reference in there to self containment , you see if we look at that particular paragraph , two point one two , it actually says avoid the development of small new settlements which are not to , sorry , I 'll start that again , avoid the development of small new settlements which are not be likely to be well served by public transport , or which will not be largely self contained . |
| 14 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 15 | Investors should expect to shoulder responsibility for any damage or injury arising after privatisation , and demarcation disputes were likely over liabilities from the past , he said . |
| 16 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
| 17 | Hockley , an assistant in a bakery , was only three over par for yesterday 's round as she stood to her second , a nine iron , at the 15th . |
| 18 | The event was won by Rossendale 's Steve Holden , who was three over par on 144 with rounds of 73 , 71 . |
| 19 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 20 | I mean the Welsh population in percentage terms is now rising more rapidly than that of England and therefore by the year two thousand and one when the next review would take place er we er will certainly fully occupy if you like , that fifth seat in terms of the average size because Welsh Euro constituencies were during the past ten years , very slightly larger on average than those in England and so er we are moving from under representation to slight over representation for a temporary period er simply because er you know Wales is regarded as indivisible for this purpose and that 's why we welcomed this debate . |
| 21 | DENMARK scraped a narrow but precious 1–0 over Albania in Tirana yesterday to stay in second place in Group Three . |
| 22 | LEADERS Redcar claimed their eighth win in 12 matches thanks to veteran left arm spinner Colin Bainbridge , whose nagging accuracy , flight and turn made visitors Norton struggle for every run in their modest 55 over score of 155 for seven . |
| 23 | The sensors are effective over distances of up to 50 feet . |
| 24 | Female ants also release pheromones to attract males ; their pheromones , however , are only effective over distances of 25–30 yards . |
| 25 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 26 | But the power and the point of Barthes 's account of wrestling , as a spectacle that re-enacts the battle of good over evil with grandiloquence and excess of gesture and act , is that this interpretation is contrary to an accepted one of wrestling as a sport in which competitors demonstrate skill and strength in their progress towards a victory . |
| 27 | WAYNE LINEKER , 29-year-old brother of soccer star Gary , is angry over gossip about his friendship with 15-year-old Essex schoolgirl Zoe Davey . |
| 28 | " Coming from the continent and sweeping over Britain from east to west , then crossing the Irish Sea , a military aristocracy of Celtic origin came to dominate the land and impose its way of life on the indigenous peoples . |
| 29 | Dick Allan 's charge , a useful hurdler rated in the mid 120s , has crept in on a mark of 86 over fences after an unenterprisingly-ridden second at Catterick . |
| 30 | In these practice runs the characters of the two canoeists contrasted : Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott , tall , good looking , and in his early thirties , meticulous over details with the mathematical approach of a navigator in facing the problems ; Roger Courtney , as we have seen in training off Arran , a heavily built man , something of the adventurer with the flair for improvisation in a tight corner . |