Example sentences of "[prep] the [noun sg] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any rate , Bloch 's work is exciting , with long singing lines for the solo instrument over a rich orchestral texture , well coloured by brass and percussive timpani . |
| 2 | This is about the only plausible remaining explanation for the midweek muck-up over VAT , heating and help for the poor . |
| 3 | Apart from the fact that there has been significant support for the alliance party over the last dozen years or so among the catholic middle classes , there is also a further factor . |
| 4 | The Chancellor stayed in Italy even though Premier John Major and Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd rushed back from their hols abroad for the emergency session over possible action against Iraq . |
| 5 | For all these reasons some economists have for years advocated this approach to monetary policy and during the 1970s a number of governments began at least to pay lip service to it by announcing target rates of growth for the money supply over the coming year . |
| 6 | Hari asked , feeling pity for the boy wash over her . |
| 7 | With titles such as ‘ T-shirts , masculinity and Abstract Expressionism ’ , ‘ Matrixial space : aside from the phallus ’ , and ‘ Men , women and herveys : constructions of ‘ effeminacy ’ in eighteenth-century England ’ , the grazing conference-goer was tempted to opt for the sensationalist subject over more traditional approaches . |
| 8 | Introduction of this new procedure results in there being two procedural options for the Community institutions over matters decided by a qualified majority . |
| 9 | Hatoof , owned by Sheikh Maktoum Al Maktoum , whose stud sponsors the Newbury race , stays at home in Paris for the Prix Imprudence over Maisons-Laffitte 's straight seven furlongs , on which trainer Criquette Head 's Ravinella prefaced her Newmarket 1,000 Guineas win four years ago . |
| 10 | DESPITE increasing gloom among professional fund managers , individual investors are becoming slightly more confident about the outlook for the stock market over the next year , according to a Gallup survey of 2,000 savers and investors published today . |
| 11 | Penson gave David Davies the job of preparing the foundations , embankment and approach road for the iron bridge over the Severn in the ‘ top sawyer 's ’ home town of Llandinam and was so pleased with his work that he recommended payment of an additional £15 over and above the contract price agreed . |
| 12 | Such judicial deference to the executive can be contrasted to the recent grilling on the subject experienced by Sir Robert Armstrong , head of the British Civil Service , in an Australian courtroom at the end of 1986 during the Spycatcher trial over the alleged revelation of state secrets . |
| 13 | These up and down movements as the tip scans over the surface provide topographical information which a computer reassembles into an image of the sample . |
| 14 | And indeed the new landscape produced some fine dramatic compositions such as the railway viaduct over the smoking town of Stockport ; or the sight of Bradford at night from the moorland hills to the north ; or of the smoky silhouette of Nottingham on a winter evening as seen from the south-bound train on the Eastern Region line ; or the city of Sheffield in full blast on a murky morning ; even ( one thinks sometimes ) the sight of long gas-lit streets of red brick working-class houses in a Victorian town with not a tree or a bush in sight : only the lamps shining on pavements blanched by the autumn evening wind . |
| 15 | Patients reported about three times as many undesirable events in the six months preceding their illness as the comparison group over the same period . |
| 16 | At 17 miles 2 chains , which is between the railway bridge over the Onny and the stone overbridge , known to the BCR as Longville Bridge , he required a screen 8 feet high and 80 yards long , on the north side of the line . |
| 17 | Sunil 's a bright guy and he 's sufficiently clued into club politics to have known about the question mark over Chatterton 's conduct of the wine committee . |
| 18 | Some Kuwaitis , nervous about the health scare over cellular phones , have swapped their hand-held sets for car-installed phones , Abdulla al Sabej , managing director of Mobile Telephone Systems Co told Reuter in an interview ; 7% of Kuwaitis and 4% of the total population of 1.3m have cellular phones . |
| 19 | In summer trains run through the Country Park over part of an original ironstone quarry railway . |
| 20 | The visitor can pass on without an inkling of these rare events , and in walking through the church pass over the Teutonic bones of those ancients . |
| 21 | A man trying to get a wardrobe through the bedroom window over there . |
| 22 | ‘ We , I , well , Leon cast into the Broad just off the reed bed over the east side , Sunday afternoon . |
| 23 | THERE was confusion yesterday about the affect on government spending and borrowing after the Treasury climbdown over the way subsidies from the European Commission are treated . |
| 24 | It may well be that a fairer test must await an examination of the poll tax over an entire electoral cycle . |
| 25 | In evidence to the Environment Committee in 1986 the following report was given on the record of the Church Commissioners over the previous seventeen years , during which the future of 1,053 redundant churches was decided . |
| 26 | Would the hon. Lady have supported the resignation of the Home Secretary over the escapes from Brixton ? |
| 27 | She ladled a little of the court bouillon over the fat bits of mackerel . |
| 28 | In the interview , the Prime Minister was asked about the line that stressed the importance of the service sector over manufacturing . |
| 29 | I made it clear that our policy was to use that money to reduce the level of the council tax over that period of time . |
| 30 | Alright , if erm , if we now so this is going to be his sort of , his opportunity cost right , his wage rate in the rural sense is going to , to opportunity cost , and the sum of the opportunity cost over time right , is going to be the present , you know if we discount that by some er , if we turn it into a present , a present value , right , the present value of that sum there , right , will determine life times income in agriculture . |