Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this agreement averted a government crisis , Marjanne Sint submitted her resignation as PvdA chair over the issue on Aug. 30 . |
| 2 | all the cup news will be on Central at just after five tomorrow … now Britain 's boat people will be setting course for Earls Court over the next week to take in this year 's Boat Show … |
| 3 | It recognised that , with educational provision as a whole in a transitional phase , still recovering from the war and still adjusting to the requirements of the 1944 Act , it was inappropriate to ‘ set a course for adult education over the rest of this century ’ : ‘ our recommendations apply to the present transitional period ’ . |
| 4 | Observers related this development to the loss of CPSU control over the city soviet . |
| 5 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 6 | He stood looking down at her and Maggie felt waves of anxiety wash over her . |
| 7 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 8 | Step forward trousers , whose sudden success is a direct result of designer indecision over skirt lengths . |
| 9 | And in doing so they have become the laughing stock of world sport over the great ball-changing saga in the Texaco Trophy one-day international . |
| 10 | Now someone else told me , and it worked , and if you just lay a piece of kitchen paper over the top , that absorbs some of the moisture |
| 11 | He took a piece of tracing paper over the old one though and Germanicised it and took it away from what we call Old English . |
| 12 | Place a piece of cling film directly on top of the icing and another piece of cling film over the top of the bowl to prevent the icing from drying . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The symbolic roles of political leaders preoccupied Pareto and Mosca , who characterized them in a persistently cynical way as outright manipulation or fraud , simple tricks essential to the maintenance of elite control over the mass . |
| 15 | The Bureau was closed down in 1979 and an interesting experiment in State control over the geography of office location came to an end ( Manners and Morris , 1986 ) . |
| 16 | President Bush signed into law on Dec. 18 a transport bill which allocated $119,000 million of federal funds to road construction over a six-year period , and $31,500 million to mass transit . |
| 17 | This required two steps : the reimposition of state control over insurrectionist authorities such as the Committees of Public Safety ; and the restoration of a clear distinction between military and civilian spheres . |
| 18 | Although he refused to speak against Gates , who had supported his election , Bush announced that Attorney General Thornburgh had begun a national review of the 15,000 complaints made to the federal government concerning acts of police brutality over the previous six years . |
| 19 | Sarella felt a wave of nausea sweep over her . |
| 20 | Cursing himself for sounding so patronizing , Harry felt a wave of pity wash over him . |
| 21 | As Michael slipped on his overcoat Joe felt a wave of loneliness wash over him . |
| 22 | She peered out into the moonlit garden and felt a wave of desperation sweep over her . |
| 23 | She cried harder , feeling a wave of sickness wash over her . |
| 24 | Mindful of questions such as these , many Third World governments have tried to establish food policies in order to ensure an acceptable level of food security over the medium and long term . |
| 25 | We lobbied the British Board of Dream Classification over the blasphemy rulings . |
| 26 | Resignation of Chancellery official over BND scandals — Honecker issue |
| 27 | Resignation of Health Minister over cholera epidemic |
| 28 | Urinary APGPR excretion was calculated as a product of the urinary concentration for a given sample and the volume/ hour of urine output over that sampling period . |
| 29 | Over 300 amateur golfers from across the United Kingdom and Ireland have signed up to play in next weekend 's Bass-sponsored Heart of Down tournament over the Spa , Downpatrick and Ardglass courses . |
| 30 | Mossy Rooney , a man who , though he spoke little , noticed a lot , saw the look of relief pass over Benny Hogan 's face , as she was sent to bed with a hot-water bottle and a cup of hot milk . |