Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] over [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last phase of the Watergate scandal consisted of a prolonged battle between the President and those investigating the case over possession of these tapes . |
| 2 | Further , to have made the concession over restoration of lands would have meant depriving their own people of their French interests , something which , for both moral and financial reasons , they were not prepared to do . |
| 3 | I think it does mean though that issues like erm long term sickness erm the issue that you 've got with the two people in your patch , one of whom might go to the help desk , you need to get that resolved P D Q so you can say well I 've reduced my h the temp over budget by one . |
| 4 | Reflecting fears from the industry over inconsistency of enforcement , the regulatory authorities and their environmental health officers are to be given guidance on what is reasonable to expect in terms of training , and the wise operator will make sure that his training strategy is endorsed by the local EHO . |
| 5 | The uncertainty over evil in a way dominates the entire structure of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 6 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers meet in Brussels today to seek a way out of the impasse over harmonisation of VAT and excise duty rates which , if unresolved , could make the 1992 single market unworkable . |
| 7 | I like the ones with the wipe over top like that do you ? |
| 8 | It was in this context that the scare over incest in the late nineteenth century developed . |
| 9 | The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations . |
| 10 | Matrices of transition probabilities such as those given in the earlier examples are useful in that they summarize the behaviour over time of the system under study . |
| 11 | minor on Heard Island is entirely resident , not surprisingly so in view of the distance over water to more agreeable wintering grounds . |
| 12 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 13 | Knighted in June 1641 , as late as December he urged consultation with the king over suppression of the Irish rebellion . |
| 14 | First , there is the possibility that restrictive recruitment policies provide the context for the development over time of a separate bureaucratic ‘ view ’ . |
| 15 | He continued the restraint over intervention in other countries " affairs that had marked US policy ever since Vietnam . |
| 16 | IT IS impossible to understand the Victorian age without understanding why Darwin 's theory of the origin of species was so disturbing ; and perhaps it is equally impossible to understand the argument over evolution without learning why it was so fiercely resisted , by scientists as well as laymen . |
| 17 | The former Solicitor General has joined the debate over anonymity in rape cases . |
| 18 | Methodists ' main concern was not so much the debate over collectivism v. individualism as over reunion of the various Methodist divisions . |
| 19 | To present the debate over time-scale as a ‘ widening v. deepening ’ debate is something of an oversimplification . |
| 20 | ‘ The survey demonstrates that the debate over membership of the ERM has become clouded by issues of personalities and politics . |
| 21 | This had important implications for the debate over access to birth control information and abortion — rarely were demands for freer access to birth control information devoid of maternalist rhetoric . |
| 22 | He ended a bitter divide that has lasted 75 years when he made the offer over lunch at Buckingham Palace . |
| 23 | The prosecution over safety in an Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor , reactors which form part of the electricity industry privatisation , will come as an extra embarrassment to the Government and will further dent City confidence in the value of the nuclear assets . |
| 24 | At one point he talks of the extension over time of ‘ a personality ’ rather than of ‘ a person ’ , and might have said that , even if the general knew what he did as a boy , it could be nothing to him , no part of his adult conception of himself , and so not a matter for guilt or blame . |
| 25 | Mr Lang will criticise Labour for concentrating on attacking the Government over unemployment without recognising that wealth has to be created in order to increase the number of jobs on offer . |
| 26 | Tom Emmett 's story is laced with thick Yorkshire dialect ; Ted Barratt , another left-arm bowler , prolific but unlucky , is rescued from the deepest obscurity of them all ; the colourful George Ulyett is seen as ‘ a sort of Victorian Ian Botham ’ , and was involved in the scandal over match-rigging on the 1881–82 tour of Australia ( to say nothing of a gatecrashing at 10 Downing Street ) ; the weird William Scotton lurks here too ; and the elegant but equally tragic Willie Bates ; and the outrageous Bobby Peel , the longest-lived of them all , by a long way , and the fourth Yorkie in the collection . |
| 27 | THE Prime Minister was forced into a damage limitation exercise yesterday as the row over VAT on fuel bills spiralled out of control . |
| 28 | Moreover , this distinctive structural location has been remarkably resilient to change and it is commonly argued that schooling plays a big part in the reproduction over time of the position of black people in British society . |
| 29 | The Bulgarian State TV and Radio Choir — known as Le Mystere Des Voix Bulgares , recently visited England as part of the Voice Over Festival of international singing . |
| 30 | Is the stability over time of a portfolio beta affected by the number of constituent securities and if so why ? |