Example sentences of "[noun sg] with the [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Government over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 2 | In the event Lin and Chiang pulled out at the last moment , prompting speculation that Lee had made a deal with the conservatives over the reform programme or over Cabinet posts . |
| 3 | Controversy over the Scottish National Party 's decision to do a deal with the Tories over seats on the EC committee of the regions resurfaced . |
| 4 | Place the saucepan with the milk over the heat and bring to the boil . |
| 5 | Henry VIII , in the 1530s , had begun to encourage Renaissance work by importing Italian craftsmen , but his break with the Pope over his religious and marital problems postponed the arrival of the Renaissance in England for nearly a century . |
| 6 | Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head ! |
| 7 | As her hair had been squashed down by her David Shilling spotted hat , she put on her prettiest blond wig with the tendrils over the forehead . |
| 8 | In his confrontation with the West over Suez and his arousing of Arab nationalism to confront the intrusive Western position in the Middle East , he was spoken of as a modern-day Salah al-Din . |
| 9 | Dave Cook and myself planned to force a confrontation with the military over the issue of access to Range West . |
| 10 | Individual schools did enter into correspondence with the TES over its reporting of the full HMI report , and over the findings themselves . |
| 11 | This partly explains London Weekend Television 's battle with the institutions over its scheme for locking in key managers . |
| 12 | He came into battle with the school over the obligation to parade with the Officers Training Corps . |
| 13 | The first of these was midway through its battle with the Rocket over the North Yorkshire moors . |
| 14 | CRYSTAL PALACE face a battle with the FA over their intention to claim compensation for the injury John Salako sustained on England duty last month . |
| 15 | FRENCH building contractors who had threatened to disrupt this weekend 's opening of the Euro Disney theme park in Paris yesterday reached an eleventh-hour truce with the company over cost overruns . |
| 16 | ‘ You have n't even begun to try to understand … you have n't a notion what it was like , all the cars and the blood and the glass and the boy with the blanket over him , and a girl breaking her ribs , and all the hanging around and waiting … it was … it was … just awful . ’ |
| 17 | It will be aware also that we have a long , deep and bitter disagreement with the Government over their whole political and security policy in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 19 | The US already stands on the brink of a trade war with the EC over the failure of GATT talks . |
| 20 | Propaganda actions , such as Christmas sales of excess butter , failed to stop the complaints about the policy : that it tended to help large farms , which could adopt intensive production methods , rather than the needy ; that it distorted world markets and upset the US , which threatened a trade war with the EC over CAP in 1986 — 7 ; and that it harmed the environment by encouraging the use of chemical fertilisers . |
| 21 | ‘ They bound along , eager and unquestioning across the icy wastes with the driver with the whip over them saying ‘ mush , mush ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's played extensively in the Football League and I ca n't see him encountering any difficulty with the game over here . ’ |
| 23 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 24 | She is patting Xanthe softly now , dreamily , and she stands her up and drops the nightdress with the rabbits over the little girl 's head , and turns her to fasten the top pearl button at the back . |
| 25 | Q plans to put out the final part of his novel on video with the narration over Super 8 footage shot by Don Letts , before issuing a DEADMEAT ‘ remix ’ mass-market edition , and then moving on to a new book to be called Supermodel and concerned with , well , supermodels . |
| 26 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 27 | This in turn drew many striking and picketing miners into conflict with the police over the rights and wrongs of conducting protest during industrial disputes . |
| 28 | He denied any conflict with the IMF over his policy . |
| 29 | And if there is a long-standing feud with the neighbour over the line of the fence or hedge , will the seller declare it ? |
| 30 | Both men helped found the First International Working Men 's Association , and both contributed to its collapse after twelve years by their attacks on all other forms of socialist thought and their feud with the anarchists over maintaining full-scale industrialization . |