Example sentences of "[noun sg] of a [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often , Finn emerged from the workroom with a bruise on his cheekbone or a swollen eye , the result of a disagreement over some detail of the work in hand . |
| 2 | Russia 's intended sale of diesel submarines to Iran , which had aroused strong US opposition , was delayed as a result of a dispute over trade payments , according to a Russian announcement on Sept. 25 . |
| 3 | The calls were the result of an argument over some jewellery . |
| 4 | With the world 's transport systems not prepared to align themselves with Athletico training sessions or match kick-offs , Homstat was sometimes absent for weeks on end , giving team talks with the aid of an interpreter over the telephone , or he would be a lone , pathetic figure , sat in the dug-out on a wet Monday morning urging on thin air . |
| 5 | Contractual liability on a joint account on which an overdraft is to be allowed need not attract the same attention as the grant of a charge over property . |
| 6 | In the event of another company acquiring control of the Company through a takeover or reconstruction , then ( as an alternative to exercising his option as described in paragraph 6 ) a participant may , if the acquiring company so agrees , release his existing option in return for the grant of an option over shares in the acquiring company ( or a parent thereof ) having the same aggregate option prices and the same aggregate market value as the shares the subject of the options released , the new options being generally exercisable on the same terms as the old . |
| 7 | THE French Grand Prix was yesterday restored to the 1993 Formula One schedule after settlement of a dispute over an anti-smoking law . |
| 8 | Wigan50 Bradford Northern8 TO THE acclamation of their ecstatic supporters , Wigan triumphantly paraded the Championship Trophy around Central Park after this formality of a victory over relegation-haunted Bradford Northern had confirmed a third successive Stones Bitter title for this peerless team . |
| 9 | The failure to engage in that kind of self-reflection was part of a self-assurance over the wider common culture . |
| 10 | The Hawaiian Islands provide a classic example of a volcanic line , and the generally accepted explanation of this type of feature involves the passage of part of a plate over a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly which , through the periodic generation of magma in the overlying crust sequence of volcanic activity at the surface ( Fig |
| 11 | Perhaps the other girl did n't mind being part of a deal over a vineyard . |
| 12 | These developments have formed a major part of a debate over whether a Keynesian revolution had occurred in the Treasury by 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ; Peden , 1987 ; Rollings , 1985 ; Tomlinson , 1984 ] . |
| 13 | I said tell her I can always put the the s bit of a square over it |
| 14 | With an hour to go before Betty Boothroyd faced her destiny , I suggested to a leading Tory fixer that his party was in a bit of a pucker over who its preferred candidate should be . |
| 15 | " They 're in a bit of a twitch over there , I need hardly say . " |
| 16 | ‘ There 's been a bit of a crisis over the weekend — some vital supplies have been held up — and , apparently , my presence is urgently required . ’ |
| 17 | So that 's where the money 's going , and we 're hoping that we make enough money in sponsorship so that the money we earn , people will know that it 's all going out to help the projects we want to , and it 's not being wasted on administration , especially after there 's been erm a bit of a debark over Sting 's money , where only 5% went to the Indians and also the Rainforest Foundation has since collapsed , so our head-office is going to be absolutely stringent about making sure that the money is spent where we 've asked it to be spent . |
| 18 | Morals , attitudes , again , there 's a bit of a cross over there . |
| 19 | [ For details of the deferment of a decision over Haiti 's application for membership of CARICOM see p. 37648 . ] |
| 20 | If he did so intend then , in the case of a child over the age of 16 , his interpretation of the law was inconsistent with the express words of section 8(3) of the Act of 1969 . |
| 21 | ‘ I tell you it went down that last passage on the right , ’ hissed Kring in a voice like the scrape of a blade over stone . |
| 22 | This is the story of a quarrel over women involving a series of abductions and retributions which culminate in Paris 's kidnapping of Helen . |
| 23 | IN THESE days when money is scarce for most rugby clubs Morley earned themselves £1,500 on the toss of a coin over the weekend . |
| 24 | A little breeze had got up and the bottom of a blind over an open window was being knocked on the sill . |
| 25 | Exactly what ‘ negligenter ’ meant can only be conjectured , for the old authorities are confused , but it certainly excluded liability where the fire spread or occurred ( a ) by the act of a stranger over whom he had no control , such as a trespasser , and ( b ) by the act of nature . |
| 26 | Suggest other situations where there is scope for ‘ fiddling ’ based on the superior knowledge of the provider of a service over the customer . |
| 27 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |
| 28 | The question placed me in danger of a box over the ear from the broken-nosed physics master who , despite his pugnacious appearance , failed to keep order in any class . |
| 29 | To stress the importance of a roof over your head . |
| 30 | Loss of the loved one can raise the same intensity of emotion : a sense of betrayal , hatred of the betrayer , extreme jealousy of a rival-feelings over which a person may believe they have little or no control . |