Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] over a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fighting another NME writer over a woman ; having a pint of beer in the Roxy with Robert Plant ; realising that Sid Vicious could be fronted out because he only picked on those that he was likely to win against . |
| 2 | Spreading the annuity purchase over a period of years will average out rates over that period , but whether this will result in a bigger pension at the end of the day is highly speculative . |
| 3 | The prize is intended to support research projects over a period of several years . |
| 4 | Good examples of activities to maintain motivation are collecting inspiring dieting case histories from slimming magazines ; going out to buy a dress one size smaller than your present size ; looking at charts and graphs that show good overall weight loss over a period of time . |
| 5 | WIMBLEDON 's Vinnie Jones yesterday lost his appeal to the Football Association over a record £20,000 fine . |
| 6 | Taylor 's ( 1971a ; 1971b ) Marxist approach sees contemporary spectator violence as a consequence of the increasing loss of control experienced by working-class football supporters over a game which they previously regarded as theirs . |
| 7 | It 's thought that the morning , when people are a bit lively , is a good time for therapy-type activities — perhaps have a half-hour reminiscence group over a coffee at 9.30 or 10.00 am . |
| 8 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 9 | On Oct. 12 three former Matrix Churchill executives had come to trial charged with breaching export regulations over a period of more than two years prior to Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait in August 1990 , in particular by falsely describing the equipment as for civilian use . |
| 10 | The librarian should normally plan a long-term programme of stock revisions over a period of , say , one to three years , selecting a number of specified priority subjects to be revised during that period . |
| 11 | New from J B Corrie is the Garden Buggy which looks like a conventional wheelbarrow but has a strong woven polypropylene fabric pan over a rust resistant chassis and easy to manoeuvre polypropylene wheels and pvc tyres . |
| 12 | CHELSEA defender Paul Elliott is ready to sue Liverpool and their former striker Dean Saunders over a tackle which threatens his career . |
| 13 | The research is therefore intended to contribute to this theoretical debate and , in drawing on field work over a period of nearly twenty years , to consider critically the applicability of ideas like discourse to a particular ethnographic case . |
| 14 | He had ordered the William Ashbless poetry over a month ago , and now it had finally arrived . |
| 15 | In parallel , and in the shorter-term , acceptance will still be possible for those over 30 years of age with appropriate and verified management experience over a period of at least five years . |
| 16 | I refer to your letter of 11 March 1993 concerning the above and the use of Media Action to organise an information type campaign over a period of possibly one week . |
| 17 | Einstein learnt the mathematical techniques he needed from his friend Marcel Grossman over a number of years when they both lived in Zurich and regarded the techniques primarily as useful tools . |
| 18 | We took about £150m out of the operating companies over a couple of years |
| 19 | Lord Aldington , a UK peer and former Army officer , was on Nov. 30 , 1989 , awarded £1,500,000 in libel damages over a pamphlet accusing him of deliberately sending 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks to their death in 1945 . |
| 20 | With this version of the theory , the change in the exchange rate over a period will equal the differential inflation rates between the two countries . |
| 21 | Barbara Conway , the former Daily Telegraph journalist , who was until recently publicity officer of the new watchdog over the financial services industry , The Securities and Investment Board ( SIB ) , has criticised the practices of Harvard Securities over a period of years in her reporting based on private investors ' comments . |
| 22 | This last autumn South East Arts tried and experiment in Brighton and organized a series of five so-called fringe theatrical productions at the Pavilion Theatre over a period of two months . |
| 23 | Now , Mr. Donahue is not , repeat not , the kind of guy who 'd meet up with the Fender boffins over a coffee and casually say : ‘ Hey , give it a kinda , uh , cool neck and some real hot pickups and paint it killer pink , and that 'll be just great … ’ |
| 24 | Work-shadowing , whereby a student follows a business person during her normal work routines over a period of a few weeks is becoming increasingly commonplace in the UK . |
| 25 | The full details of the settlement , agreed in June , were kept secret until after the hearing of Lord Aldington 's libel action against Count Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts over a pamphlet repeating the allegations . |
| 26 | Indeed this is proven by the fact that some of the original 1 Squadron crews of 1950 were still flying in 2 Squadron Canberra medium bombers over South Vietnam over a decade later . |
| 27 | Battling Dave Cannon sprayed a whole trailer-load of the cow muck over a council building after plans for his retirement bungalow were turned down for the fourth time . |
| 28 | However , as a sociologist , I was interested in observing routine cases over a period of time in order to look for regular and recurring patterns of action and interaction that might allow certain generalisations to be made . |
| 29 | What are the advantages of Gift Aid over a Deed of Covenant ? |
| 30 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |