Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | For any Whites who harbour a sentiment for the famed Seadogs of Scarborough , chairman Geoffrey Richmond has resigned after a boardroom row over admission prices . |
| 2 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 3 | President-elect Clinton takes office in January after a landslide victory over Bush earlier this month . |
| 4 | Simon Scott converted , but the Scots , tired after an extra-time victory over the Hong Kong national side , lost 26-7 . |
| 5 | The next section addresses this question by discussing the relative merits of a currency union over an exchange rate union . |
| 6 | As the suspension of a unit trust over a pricing error is unprecedented , it is not known when units can be traded again . |
| 7 | The police had been sent to arrest Faky Ali Ahmat and his followers because of a land dispute over ownership of the site of the mosque . |
| 8 | Fundholding poses ethical problems , either because it secures a better service for the patients of a fundholding practice over those whose doctors happen not to hold a fund , or because it does not . |
| 9 | THE replay of a court battle over a five-a-side football development is to be staged tomorrow . |
| 10 | Six chemical companies and a property developer have agreed to pay damages of $207 million in what is believed to be the largest settlement of a court case over a toxic waste dump . |
| 11 | A TEENAGE mother from Cleveland is at the centre of a court wrangle over her child . |
| 12 | Aspects of the Westland case also showed the dangers of a government monopoly over the dissemination of information and its resultant debate . |
| 13 | My surprise does not arise from the possibility of a Government defeat over the social chapter but from the fact that it is only now that such a story has found its way onto the front pages . |
| 14 | His opposite number , St Boniface , is equally finely bedecked , but is given the dignity of a plaster mask over his skull . |
| 15 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 16 | The on-loan Millwall keeper comes into the reckoning at Southend on Saturday because of a fitness doubt over Welsh international Tony Norman . |
| 17 | PREMIER John Major is at the centre of a Cabinet battle over interest rate cuts , it was revealed last night . |
| 18 | The confessions add considerably to de Benedetti 's embarrassments , because he is already relying on the labyrinthine Italian judicial system of appeals , and the country 's statute of limitations to avoid the possibility of a jail sentence over his - fairly tenuous — involvement in the Banco Ambrosiano collapse . |
| 19 | If you wo n't dare to go bare , the layering effect of a lace body over another body creates a stunning evening or party look . |
| 20 | The light , full and smooth , lay like a gold rind over the turf , the furze and yew bushes , the few wind-stunted thorn trees . |
| 21 | Only his wife remained , a scrawny figure with gold-rimmed spectacles half-way down her nose , presiding like a recording angel over her ledgers . |
| 22 | Goals like a tennis victory over Boris Becker can , however , be changed to achievable ones , such as , improving your game of tennis . |
| 23 | In his laboratory ( evoked with a delightful jumble of esoteric clutter in Anthony Ward 's design ) , Sir Nicholas Gimcrack gives madmen transfusions of sheep 's blood , rejoices like a wine connoisseur over his collection of bottled air and , most ludicrously of all , learns to swim by imitating a frog in a jam-jar suspended in front of his nose . |
| 24 | And now the Trunchbull was leaning back against the weight of the whirling girl and pivoting expertly on her toes , spinning round and round , and soon Amanda Thripp was travelling so fast she became a blur , and suddenly , with a mighty grunt , the Trunchbull let go of the pigtails and Amanda went sailing like a rocket right over the wire fence of the playground and high up into the sky . |
| 25 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 26 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 27 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 28 | For a long time the professionals had a preference for a pruning knife over secateurs . |
| 29 | THE BBC was bracing itself yesterday for a Government onslaught over its election coverage , which many ministers believe was biased against the Conservatives . |
| 30 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |