Example sentences of "the [noun sg] with [noun] over " in BNC.
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1 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
2 | In due course , after the ties that bound nobles and peasants had been finally severed , they were to become elective Justices of the Peace with jurisdiction over all estates of the realm . |
3 | ‘ Group performance will be contingent upon the appropriate matching of leadership styles and the degree of favourableness of the group situation for the leader , that is , the degree to which the situation provides the leader with influence over his group members . ’ |
4 | A meeting on Sept. 4 , 1989 , between King Birendra and the then Indian Prime Minister , Rajiv Gandhi , at the Belgrade summit of the Non-Aligned Movement [ for which see pp. 36907-08 ] , failed to produce a breakthrough in the conflict with India over trade and transit rights [ see p. 37009 ] . |
5 | But the conflict with Armenia over the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh is never far from anyone 's mind . |
6 | Jacob will play Woods who shone throughout the day with wins over Peter Hunt , Peter Beatham and fellow fifth seed Nick Mills . |
7 | Dundalk clinched the double with victory over Derry in the 1988 FAI Cup Final and the following season the Brandywell club took the first step towards a unique treble with a stunning 4–0 win in the League Cup final at Oriel Park . |
8 | The pound slumped to 2.47 against the mark at one point yesterday as the row with Germany over the leaked Bundesbank document rumbled . |
9 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
10 | I got to the ward with blood over my hands and face . |
11 | The controversy with Grassi over the nature of comets created an atmosphere in which Galileo and the Jesuits finally became locked in an intellectual trial of strength . |
12 | For instance , these reactors are the only ones in the country with power over one megawatt which do not have an independent shut-down system . |
13 | Meanwhile in the dispute with Iran over the ship Cape Maleas and its cargo of arms , the Court of Appeal in Ankara on June 3 overturned an earlier decision by the Istanbul State Security Court which had authorized the seizure of the ship and the confiscation of its cargo [ see pp. 38740 ; 38834 ] . |
14 | Efforts to find a peaceful solution to the dispute with Iran over possession of the Gulf islands of Abu Musa , Tunb al-Kubra and Tunb al-Sughra continued throughout — October , following the breakdown of direct negotiations in Abu Dhabi on Sept. 28 [ see p. 39116 ] . |
15 | Early in 1953 Britain and Egypt were still deadlocked over the future of the Suez base , while no settlement seemed in prospect to the dispute with Iran over the nationalization of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company . |
16 | ‘ Sovereignty ’ is a word open to misunderstanding and one that is used in the sphere of international law ( for example , the dispute with Argentina over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands ) , and also in the political arena ( for example , in the debates on the United Kingdom 's membership of the European Community and on subsequent issues such as the Single European Act 1986 and European Monetary Union , there was considerable rhetoric on sovereignty ) . |