Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 When I lock along my collection of phrenology books , including titles such as The Brain and How to Read It , and run my fingers with affection over the porcelain phrenological head that stands on my filing cabinet , I often wonder what future generations will make of today 's psychologists .
2 In fact when I keep my Topper at home over the winter , they just lift the whole thing up into the roof of the garage , keeps it right out of the way .
3 As an American I can only hang my head in shame over the Bill Clinton sex scandal .
4 So , to calm her down , I threw my glass of wine over her . ’
5 Oh Spilled my cup of tea over the tablecloth .
6 Novell said its discussions with AT&T over USL led the two companies to consider this and several other areas of synergy , which they declined to innumerate .
7 Novell said its discussions with AT&T over USL led the two companies to consider this and several other areas of synergy , which they declined to innumerate .
8 The elections had been called 15 months early after a group of five Green legislators — who had kept the minority government of Michael Field in office since June 1989 [ see p. 37877 ] — withdrew its support after disagreements over the issue of logging [ for May 1989 elections see p. 36658 ] .
9 Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents .
10 The UN Security Council was planning to vote last night to adopt a resolution enforcing its ban on flights over Bosnia .
11 The 70,000 strong South African Domestic Workers Union ( SADWU ) is encouraging its members to take their employers to court over unfair dismissals and low wages .
12 Nor was Washington pleased when the British resorted to their usual tricks in their search for influence over American policy .
13 Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates .
14 At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture .
15 The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it .
16 Specific topics of interest are the impact of collective agreements on pay in Northern Ireland , and the composition of the workforce ( ie occupation/industry/sex/part-time or full-time nature of the workforce ) and its effect on pay over time .
17 Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) .
18 Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 .
19 Ray Plummer , Cornwall 's treasurer , had expressed fears that ticket sales would be lower than last year , when about 40,000 Cornishmen swelled the attendance to 56,000 , cheering their side to victory over Yorkshire .
20 There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia .
21 Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river .
22 I would like to thank the following for their help at WASL over the last few months : .
23 I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ .
24 When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 .
25 She did n't any longer need Derek absolutely here and now for her to feel the throb in her blood of full summer throwing its haze of satisfaction over everything that came to her senses .
26 ALL day long the midnight sky built its bastions of cloud over Fenwick and the south .
27 Cenco settled with its investors for $11m over the affair , and then issued a writ against its auditor , Seidman & Seidman .
28 The Gunners bounced back from two successive defeats to restore their pride with victory over old rivals Liverpool in the live BSkyB clash .
29 The assumption underlying Bismarck 's diplomacy in the 1880s , that given her conflict with Austria-Hungary over the Balkans Russia would have to accept German terms to avoid diplomatic isolation , proved unfounded .
30 The session was largely spent in helping her further to express her feelings of distress over the separation .
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