Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun] [noun] 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 | At Liberal Democrat HQ in London , the 3,768 majority for Mr Foster over Mr Patten brought howls of delight to a party faithful . |
| 3 | I should mention that there are no complaints about the recent caravan rally in a field off Gubberford Lane over the May Day Bank Holiday ; I am simply seeking clarification of the regulations for future reference . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | Fig. 9.1 Age-sex profiles for Great Britain over a period of 130 years . |
| 7 | I 'm playing the evil Red Queen in a play about Snow White over the Christmas Season . |
| 8 | A total of 62% of firms said they expected to lose clients through business failures over the next 12 months , the largest area of concern ; 54% named cash flow as an area of concern , while 47% named staff overheads and 38% property overheads . |
| 9 | To sail over a wave without jumping you need to unhook and let your legs absorb the rising wave — rather like a skier uses his legs as shock absorbers over bumps . |
| 10 | The abolition of tax concessions for home owners over the next two years , along with continued falls in house prices , will trigger a stampede to rent , it says . |
| 11 | Mr Lutz Stavenhagen said that he expected 11 out of the 12 EC leaders in Strasbourg to endorse the proposal — a reference to the renewed isolation of Mrs Thatcher over the issue . |
| 12 | It has also been clear in his methods of training orchestras over long periods of time . |
| 13 | Alfred Gomolka ( CDU ) resigned on March 16 as Minister President of Mecklenburg-West Pomerania over the privatization of the five main shipyards in the region . |
| 14 | Observers related this development to the loss of CPSU control over the city soviet . |
| 15 | Too full to speak , Paige slid her arm about his waist and let the hovering waves of sleep drift over her . |
| 16 | He stood looking down at her and Maggie felt waves of anxiety wash over her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Step forward trousers , whose sudden success is a direct result of designer indecision over skirt lengths . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It may be that the Minoans enjoyed the social and diplomatic aspects of long-drawn-out negotiations over the price of a cargo with Egyptian , Cypriot , or Trojan merchants . |
| 26 | Shamir made his call in the light of Cabinet disagreements over a Police Ministry proposal to prevent all unmarried Palestinian men under the age of 30 from entering Israel . |
| 27 | The article was a review of process developments over the years and the way changing technology has impacted on fuel design . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Christopher Boyle and Darren Mills had struck a deal with David Hawthorne over the sale of t-shirts . |
| 30 | Gigolo Aunts ' casual tenacity has been rewarded with a deal with Fire Records over here , which gives everyone the opportunity to catch ‘ Cope ’ and its maudlin lyrical concerns . |