Example sentences of "[noun] over a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems likely that improvements in the health and work capacity of the elderly population over the last eighty years have more than compensated for any putative increase in the physical and mental demands of employment ; if so , rising retirement rates may reflect a decrease in the demand for the labour of elderly workers over a period in which their employment capacity has risen . |
| 2 | And then another lunch was estimated at two hundred and eighty and forty-five came , and it kept swinging like that all week and they never knew what the hell was going to happen so they got really aggravated and then we had , you know , some of the kids , the Ban-the-Bezier group were wandering around with their face masks and their Type ninety bags over their heads and were saying crude things over a megaphone in Tom Quad , right and then these bowler hatted policemen , whoever they are , were patiently explaining to a number of girls who were sunbathing on the lawn that this was n't done quite that way here . |
| 3 | It is now in a ruinous condition but has the distinction of being the oldest existing railway bridge over a river in the world . |
| 4 | It was almost a door and looked out on to a long paved garden bordered with box hedges and there was an inviting looking higher hedge at the bottom with an arch of greenery over a gap in the middle . |
| 5 | There had been a staggering decrease in difficulty over a century in the largest Swedish daily , Dagens Nyheter , which roughly corresponded to the difference between children 's books and adult literature . |
| 6 | Meirion Rowlands , one of the Ashleys ' most key appointments of this time , was well known as the local prizewinning sheep shearer ; he met Bernard over a pint in the pub . |
| 7 | The PDS emphasized concern over a deterioration in the comprehensive social protection currently offered by the East German state . |
| 8 | The Gambia announced on Oct. 23 that 980 illegal immigrants , the majority from Guinea and Sierra Leone , had been deported ; the expulsions were apparently prompted by concern over a rise in violent crime . |
| 9 | Investment was low , interest rates rose , there was concern over a fall in the population level from its 1974 peak of 62 million , and there were calls to cut back on the high social welfare spending built up by the SPD governments . |
| 10 | Mr Kinnock 's own union , the 1.1 million-strong Transport and General Workers ' Union , yesterday confirmed that it is to sue Mr Paddy Ashdown and six other Liberal Democrat leaders over a claim in a party newspaper that the T&G had advised members in 29 key marginals to vote Liberal Democrat rather than Labour . |
| 11 | There was a row over a kettle in the communications room at Alfreton in Amber Valley , to which my hon. Friend the Member for Amber Valley drew attention . |
| 12 | Ace had hung her coat over a chair in her lab , and was busy rearranging the workings of several weapons with the aid of a set of jeweller 's screwdrivers . |
| 13 | No presbyterian can see why a monarch should have jurisdiction over a belief in God 's kingdom . |
| 14 | It was nine by the church clock and another clock over a bank in the town hammered out the strokes . |
| 15 | By taking the computer processing offshore on to the survey boat — the Geco Resolution — for the first survey over a prospect in Block 6 , the seismic team were able to collapse the serial process of acquisition , processing and initial interpretation , to a parallel process . |
| 16 | An alleged hitman accused of pushing a young couple over a cliff in a burning car has claimed he was at home smoking drugs at the time . |
| 17 | He draped his wet clothes over a chair in front of the stove and ladled rice and beans on to two plates . |
| 18 | James Palmer , who bungled an attempt to push his neighbour over a cliff in Exmouth , Devon , was jailed yesterday by Bristol Crown Court for 10 years . |
| 19 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 20 | Mr Mackarness runs a property company from this office over a shop in South London . |
| 21 | Demonstrating that the 3D turnaround time can be reduced to two months has given the Vietnam team confidence , Nunn says , to use this method again on their second 3D survey in Vietnam over a prospect in Block 5–2 . |