Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [noun] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The uncertainty over evil in a way dominates the entire structure of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 2 | Dark over eyes in a dream and the mouth gone … |
| 3 | There they were in 1934 hatching plans for invading Russia but allowing one of their army chiefs — ‘ a typical monocled , duel-scarred , square-headed general of the High Command ’ — to reveal the lot to an RAF veteran over lunch at a plush Berlin restaurant . |
| 4 | That meeting took place at Berchtesgaden , and Hitler was persuaded to delay action over Sudetenland for a week while Chamberlain consulted his colleagues , also the French government . |
| 5 | The judge had earlier given leave for Dr Odling-Smee to be called to give evidence for the defence in Lord Aldington 's libel action over allegations in a pamphlet that he is a war criminal responsible for the forced repatriation of 70,000 Cossacks and Yugoslavs who surrendered to the British in southern Austria in May 1945 . |
| 6 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 7 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 8 | There was not a sharp transition to the next phase because public sector over spill of a ‘ simple housing kind ’ continued into the early 1960s . |
| 9 | Unfortunately , a rather upsetting aspect to the revolutionary planet Uranus , which takes place on 30 March , seems likely to bring a disagreement over finances to a head — and therefore your first priority this April must be to salvage what you can from a rather costly alliance . |
| 10 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 11 | THE opening shots have been fired in a £4.5m legal battle over repairs to a crumbling leisure centre . |
| 12 | We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant . |
| 13 | DEMOCRAT Bill Clinton leapt to a 21 per cent lead over Bush in a major poll released yesterday . |
| 14 | First , there is the possibility that restrictive recruitment policies provide the context for the development over time of a separate bureaucratic ‘ view ’ . |
| 15 | Gripping the ski-poles I tried to keep myself steady as the velocity increased and then , all of a sudden I sailed over the edge and felt myself going head over heels towards a white mass of snow far below . |
| 16 | PAUL GASCOIGNE , poised for his Italian League debut for Lazio tomorrow , was furious last night over allegations of a training ground bust-up with his team boss Dino Zoff . |
| 17 | My hetero-dithering , which might have continued indefinitely , was abruptly ended one day over lunch with a good friend . |
| 18 | AN interception try and a penalty , both in the last five minutes , earned Llanelli a narrow victory over Boroughmuir in a spectacular game in front of a 4,000 crowd at Meggetland last night . |
| 19 | He made his Palace debut on Boxing Day , teaming up for the first time with Dickie Dowsett and Ronnie Allen , and helped the Palace romp to a thrilling 3–0 victory over Millwall on a freezing surface . |
| 20 | Arabs note with pride that the Western objective of an easy victory over Iraq in a short ‘ surgical ’ war seems to have been confounded . |
| 21 | Kevin Ball , making his first appearance since being helped off the field in the FA Cup semi-final victory over Norwich with a knee injury , started tentatively but gradually settled down to come up with his usual solid , no-nonsense performance . |
| 22 | French hunters in Bordeaux have celebrated a victory over environmentalists with a Whitsun holiday massacre of migrating turtle-doves . |
| 23 | Featherstone 's Derryk Fox grabbed a dramatic 21–20 victory over Leeds with a last-minute drop-goal , boosting their hopes of avoiding the drop . |
| 24 | Victory over Dublin in a pulsating All Ireland semi-final came the hard way , a brilliant lion-hearted second half comeback after trailing by five points at half-time . |
| 25 | Northumberland had their outside-half Ian Chandler to thank for the late drop goal that led to a 13–11 victory over Alberta on a day when a freak Arctic airflow brought snow and near freezing temperatures to Calgary . |
| 26 | The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves . |
| 27 | The issue of judicial control over juries with a view to pre-empting decisions of fact , however , is neutral as between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to mistake . |
| 28 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 29 | To present the debate over time-scale as a ‘ widening v. deepening ’ debate is something of an oversimplification . |
| 30 | His assurances that it was still possible to declare war and survive were appreciated most of all by the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ — the Pentagon , the RAND Corporation ( for which Kahn 's research was done ) and the thriving weapons industry , Deterrence always had and will have one decisive advantage over Disarmament as a policy : it makes some people a fortune . |