Example sentences of "over an " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |
| 2 | Then it breaks out over an overlap onto the characteristic smooth slabs and walls which at the same time tempt and intimidate , attract but repel . |
| 3 | While camming devices with flexible stems give the most secure placements in awkward and horizontal placements , even they wo n't take repeated loading over an edge . |
| 4 | For even better bedding , prepare the site , then lay an even bed of mortar over an area which can be paved in about half an hour . |
| 5 | Phalanxes of East German border guards barred the way to Westerners trying to use the crossing-points in the Berlin Wall as East Germany 's Communist leaders began celebrating their 40-year rule over an increasingly restive population . |
| 6 | They were able to respond swiftly because they already have a secret ballot strike mandate over an ongoing pay dispute . |
| 7 | Shire enables a borrower to fix the maximum interest rate payable over an agreed period , and also gives the borrower the benefit of falls in the interest rate below a set level . |
| 8 | Not so long ago AG Stanley , the DIY group , sued Harris Queensway , the furniture and carpets retailer , over an alleged breach of warranties . |
| 9 | More frequently , the decision to take no action over an individual 's request for assistance is influenced by whether or not the individual acts in ways typical of a gouger , in part by showing the wrong attitude . |
| 10 | This monolith sat atop an escarpment which accommodated the raking of the auditorium and the levelled hardcore of a car park , and cast its long shadow over an adjacent bit of parkland , a cosy corner of scrub , stream and wood that drew me and my friends to it like a magnet . |
| 11 | Pete and I took an afternoon ferry from Leknes to Napp , and sweltered the bikes over an unnamed pass to Vareid . |
| 12 | The sortie has taken something over four hours to complete , for a little over an hour and a half in the air . |
| 13 | Off this gallery all the principal bedrooms face west over an extensive private garden ( Plate 5 ) . |
| 14 | Zooshing a citrus scent over an ultra-floral one finished off with a spritz of something exotic and musky before tonight 's hot date , may leave your man more bewildered than bewitched by clashing notes battling for supremacy behind your earlobes . |
| 15 | Any overnight rain will suit Duckhaven ( 3.30 ) in the concluding Chequers Conditional Jockeys Handicap Hurdle over an extended three miles . |
| 16 | The growing propensity to sample bodily fluids for contraband chemicals has engendered a bitter legal struggle over an employee 's right of privacy , a conflict which could spread to Europe along with fear of ‘ crack . ’ |
| 17 | The message Macedo carried to the villages — most of them accessible only by boat or along tortuous jungle trails and scattered over an area larger than England — was that the forest 's people should , in uniting , take control of their own destiny . |
| 18 | The only effective control over an expanding European embryo-government can be exercised by the directly elected European Parliament . |
| 19 | The first , ‘ conservative ’ option proposes a gradual switch to market principles over an unspecified number of years . |
| 20 | The 6ft 9in American centre scored 31 points , gathered several fistfuls of rebounds , hit two one-handed slams and threw in a three-pointer to lead Kingston into the semi-finals of the men 's competition with a 112-62 win over an underpowered team from Oslo . |
| 21 | The Quebec clause , giving Britain a veto over an American use of the atomic bomb against third parties , was dropped in exchange for the release of Britain from the clause restricting her commercial exploitation of atomic energy . |
| 22 | Eisenhower , who was in the midst of his re-election campaign and was presenting himself to the American electorate as ‘ a man of peace ’ , failed to make clear to his British and French colleagues in the Atlantic Alliance the depth of his reluctance to countenance the use of force over an issue that was only important and not vital to US interests . |
| 23 | Sonia Sutcliffe , the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper , lost her libel case against the News of the World newspaper , over an article alleging a holiday affair with a Greek businessman . |
| 24 | Labour said Michael Heseltine , the environment secretary , was in a ‘ fever of indecision ’ over an alternative to Mrs Thatcher 's flagship . |
| 25 | In order to perform a pre-programmed masterpiece , all the player has to do is wave a small baton over an electronic array . |
| 26 | Trust me , he said — and then presided over an inflationary boom . |
| 27 | Imagine laying a piece of graph paper over an enlarged copy of a character and making a list of all the squares which it covers . |
| 28 | Our medieval law of guardianship was concerned mainly with infants who were heirs of land ; and though the ‘ guardian in socage ’ — the nearest relation of the infant to whom the infant 's land can not descend — has not been abolished , the practice of settlement and of appointing trustees in whom the land , or at least powers over it , are vested , renders rare the occasions on which the very limited powers of such or any kind of guardians can be exercised over an infant 's land . |
| 29 | He obtained the second by pretending to trip over an unseen obstacle , which inadvertently threw him against the foreman , knocking him to the ground and depositing his daily schedule papers all over the floor . |
| 30 | She was busy stirring the porridge over an open wood range . |