Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus the headman had a veto over criminal prosecutions for the petty offences over which village tribunals had exclusive jurisdiction . |
| 2 | Another enchanting piece in the same book , ‘ Chiome d'oro ’ , is described as a ‘ Canzonetta a due voci Concertata da duoi Violini Chitarone o Spinetta ’ ; the voices duet ( mostly in parallel thirds ) over an ostinato bass , each of their five strophes being introduced by one of three ritornelli for the two violini over the same ostinato . |
| 3 | A much improved performance from its insurance arm Eagle Star should push profits for the nine months over the £1bn mark . |
| 4 | By opting for the positive foods over the negative ones , you 'll also be well on your way to keeping your calories in check without really trying . |
| 5 | But a look at the scenery is out of the question for the hard men over the top . |
| 6 | Little progress was achieved during the UN-sponsored negotiations over the next two years . |
| 7 | During the initial negotiations over ECSC , the international climate changed for the worse as conflict broke out in Korea in June 1950 . |
| 8 | He restricted his investigation to the 2,200 or so words in the LDOCE core vocabulary , and took the sense definitions as the textual units over which to collect co-occurrence data . |
| 9 | Sub-littoral is mostly known as the submerged seas over the Continental Shelf ( see diagram ) . |
| 10 | However , ensuing tension between the two countries over Kashmir , leading to threats of war , delayed its ratification . |
| 11 | The free trade agreement between Canada and the USA ( signed in 1988 and implemented from Jan. 1 , 1989 ) , which provided for the eventual abolition of all customs duties between the USA and Canada after one , five and 10 years , continued to produce disputes between the two countries over specific items during 1990 . |
| 12 | Japan 's Foreign Minister Michio Watanabe visited Moscow for talks with his Russian counterpart , Andrei Kozyrev , on May 3-5 , concerning the longstanding territorial dispute between the two countries over the four most southerly islands in the Kurile chain which had been occupied by the Soviet Union in August 1945 . |
| 13 | The two managed to solve a dispute between the two governments over the timing of the next Anglo-Irish intergovernmental conference , which , originally scheduled for late September , would now be held on Nov. 16 . |
| 14 | However , it was still felt that a comparison between action and control samples might be interesting , merely to see whether there was any clear difference between the two samples over the six month period . |
| 15 | That is a pity : the price of financial distress is just about the only way in which the cost of capital for firms plausibly differs between the two rivals over the longer term . |
| 16 | Despite acknowledged differences between the two sides over the pace of Soviet economic reform and policy towards the Baltic republics , the meeting was hailed by a Soviet government spokesman as " an outstanding international event " . |
| 17 | Yeltsin announced that he would mediate in talks between the two sides over Dnestr 's future , and both presidents appealed to Ukraine to co-operate in allowing the Russian troop withdrawals from Moldova through its territory . |
| 18 | During the trial , the jury heard how the assault had led on from an earlier flight between the two men over a woman . |
| 19 | Such explanations overlooked the history and depth of tension between the Hashemites and Palestinians , and ignored the continuing disparity of purpose between the two parties over the past half century . |
| 20 | Discussions took place between the two parties over a possible electoral alliance , but broke down in April . |
| 21 | In this way , the great ideological divide between the two parties over their interpretation of " Revolution Principles " was acted out annually in public rituals throughout the country . |
| 22 | It could have been intended to foment differences between the Western powers over the American intention to set up Rapid Deployment Forces in the Middle East , and over the suggestion that the area of responsibility for NATO be extended outside Europe . |
| 23 | All parties to the Afghan conflict had been invited to talks , which were postponed after disagreements arose between the rival groups over the conference . |
| 24 | However , a major stumbling block remained in the form of a dispute between the Cambodian parties over the exact composition of a Supreme National Council ( SNC ) of prominent Cambodians . |
| 25 | Ask a French Basque about the violent activities over the border in Navarre and he or she will in my experience be unsympathetic , not towards separatism as such but towards the sometimes murderous way in which it is being sought . |
| 26 | More broadly , the strategy forms a kind of palimpsest of liberal views about the subsidised arts over the past four decades . |
| 27 | The paganism of the eastern Angles over the next two or three years suggests that Eadwine 's influence in the region was no longer what it had been in Eorpwald 's lifetime . |
| 28 | Figure 9.1 shows the movements in real exchange rates of the major currencies over the period 1974 — 88 . |
| 29 | This was taken up by the Economic Section of the Cabinet ( under Meade ) which devised the Economic Survey : the expected level of output for the following year was predicted on the basis of the estimated changes over the present year in individual sectors of the economy . |
| 30 | Is he aware of the real problems over on-going research ? |