Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] over an " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Airways is suing Virgin Atlantic Airways and its chairman Richard Branson for libel only weeks after Branson took his own action against BA over an alleged dirty tricks campaign . |
| 2 | Angela was fishing ‘ flying collar ’ tactics with redgills over an offshore wreck on board Malcolm Bowden 's ‘ Pegasus II ’ out of Rathmullan . |
| 3 | Tug of Gold 's stablemate Baydon Star put up a most taking performance on his debut for David Nicholson at Ascot a fortnight ago , beating Cadency in style over an inadequate trip . |
| 4 | The project will examine the religious activities of women over an area of Northern Greece . |
| 5 | The insets to Fig. 1 a and b show , for K 3 C 60 and Rb 3 C 60 , respectively , the ( normalized ) resistivity ( T ) as a function of temperature over an extended temperature range . |
| 6 | The permanent military garrisons in Scotland provided a number of minor posts which featured prominently in burgh politics , particularly in Stirling , where the Christie family influence in council over an extended period ensured that much of the small change of military patronage came their way . |
| 7 | Try to retain some sort of control over an emotional matter and expect partners to behave unpredictably and thoughtlessly . |
| 8 | All the ingredients needed to revivify an ailing research enterprise were on hand : a hefty portion of anxiety over an enigmatic public health problem , seasoned with a dash of desperation over coming cuts in the budgets of NIH 's seven primate research centres . |
| 9 | . All the ingredients needed to revivify an ailing research enterprise were on hand : a hefty portion of anxiety over an enigmatic public health problem , seasoned with a dash of desperation over coming cuts in the budgets of NIH 's seven primate research centres … |
| 10 | So it 's usually made by stoichiometrically adding water to ethylene over an acid catalyst . |
| 11 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |
| 12 | Prospects : A strategy which will secure the backing of the younger , more creative and more frustrated members of ( or aspirants to ) the élite , as well as the Armed forces and KGB ; a strategy with greatest prospects of survival over an extended period , although its potential will depend on how quickly the regime recognises the ‘ second economy ’ to be a ‘ necessary ’ and ‘ non-antagonistic ’ contradiction in a Socialist society . |
| 13 | While a sleep-deprived subject at the Walter Reed Institute was able to respond as quickly in a simple reaction-time task as when rested , his pattern of responses over an extended series of trials , with the experimenter determining when stimuli were to be presented , would include an increasing number of very slow responses . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Men crawled over the area like ants over an anthill , and several small handcarts rolled along here and there . |
| 16 | Australian Test umpire Peter McConnell is suing the Daily Telegraph Mirror for damages over an article by Sunil Gavaskar in which the former Indian batsman made comments in some of the umpiring decisions in the Sydney Test , in which McConnell and Steve Randell officiated . |
| 17 | Other tasks which require immense computer power are modelling the behaviour of quarks , one of the smallest particles known to man , or studying the flow of air over an airplane wing . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is the first to take a European government to court over an ecological issue . |
| 20 | There are still a few , knowing they have no chance of winning , who enter just for ‘ fun ’ and the feeling of achievement which carrying fifty kilos of coal over an uphill 1,000 metre course can bring . |
| 21 | What is more insidious is the lack of guidance on the levels of accuracy to be expected or , where aggregate data are supplied ( for example , the sum or average of the values at a number of points over an area ) statements about the variability of these values within the area are exceptional . |
| 22 | One analysis by Stuart Nachtwey of NASA estimates the extra risk of cancer over an 18-month voyage , including 30 days on Mars , is only 1 per cent . |
| 23 | However , in Strange ( SW ) Ltd v Mann [ 1965 ] 1 All ER 1069 Stamp J said that it was against public policy to allow an employer to exercise control by way of contract over an employee 's skill and knowledge . |