Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | Now , for the first time in over a decade there is uncertainty over the Chelsea veteran 's inclusion . |
| 4 | 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 — |
| 5 | LENNIE Lawrence faces a selection dilemma over the FA Cup fifth round replay against Portsmouth at Ayresome Park on Wednesday night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The controversy extends to the US Administration , where many officials were kept in the dark over the White House initiatives . |
| 8 | In many ways the Conservatives ' descent towards violence over the Ulster question , and Bonar Law 's ‘ new style ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | Ozone depletion over the UK was 21 per cent greater than normal over the UK this spring , 10 per cent higher than last year . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the Pilkington final two years ago , they ran riot over the Cherry and Whites . |
| 15 | For example , he had to finish off Giraud and establish sole command over the CFLN . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | But in Arab eyes , Western action over the Gulf crisis since August 1990 is merely a renewal of US and British imperialism . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Records look set to crash in the National after Double Silk beat the clock on his majestic winning march over the Aintree fences . |
| 21 | SAMESH KUMAR , the Birmingham chairman , was yesterday charged with misconduct by the Football Association over the St Andrews ' riot . |
| 22 | Here its leader , Zephania Mothopeng , rejected outright appeals by Mandela and Zimbabwe 's President Robert Mugabe ( who had previously shown preference for the PAC policy of black rule over the ANC multiracial philosophy ) to join the ANC in a broad anti-apartheid coalition for discussions with the Pretoria government [ see p. 37033 for November 1989 meeting between Mandela and a PAC leader ; p. 37177 for PAC attitude to negotiations ] . |
| 23 | Mrs Winterton said letters should not be sent to the ‘ converted ’ who might find them an irritant , suggesting a change of tactics since the campaign over the Alton Bill . |
| 24 | Wood arrived at the conclusion that the compass error they were experiencing was opposite to the error they had found coming south over the Timor Sea , and decided he had to trust Darwin 's bearings implicitly . |
| 25 | Today a majority of those travelling south over the Gotthard are heading either for the popular lakeside resorts of the Ticino , or beyond that into Italy . |
| 26 | The house we found stood on a hill amidst fine old elm trees , looking south over the Tyne Valley and River South Tyne , midway between the villages of Bardon Mill and Haltwhistle . |
| 27 | Bell Atlantic Mobile Systems Inc says it has decided on the Code Division Multiple Access technology for its national digital cellular strategy : the Motorola Nortel Communications Inc joint venture will supply the hardware and software for the company 's first deployment in the northeast market in early 1994 ; Bell Atlantic also said it signed a letter of intent with AT&T Secure Communications Systems to test AT&T Secure 's cellular wireless data equipment over the Bell Atlantic network , which the company expects will make possible error-free transmission of cellular data . |
| 28 | And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace . |
| 29 | This was the time when the Mycenean influence over the Aegean world was at its peak . |
| 30 | In the meantime , a tourism study should be got underway as quickly as possible to ensure we maximise our influence over the WTB 's thinking . |