Example sentences of "over [adj] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 2 | We quarrelled , I remember , over that Nilotic whore of his , Kuchuk Hanem . |
| 3 | He urged the garrison to trust in God , and referred to David and Goliath , to Israel triumphing over that mighty host by the seashore , to Daniel in the den of lions . |
| 4 | She felt a sudden flash of doubt , remembering the things Jeff had told her , and thought again what had occurred to her over that fateful cup of coffee . |
| 5 | ‘ The thoughts and feelings of that poor mother , giving over that tiny tot to a complete stranger , still haunt me today . ’ |
| 6 | It was a picture of Dick Hansen over that frozen lake in his P-40 . |
| 7 | It could mean bringing somewhere between about ten and fifteen million pounds into Shropshire over that six years from Europe , into , into Shropshire , not in the whole of March 's area , but into Shropshire , during that period , to help projects in the rural west of the county . |
| 8 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 9 | Velcro , the touch fastener so beloved of outdoor skiing types and their like , is at the centre of a bitter spat between its board and disgruntled shareholders over that vexed question of shareholder value . |
| 10 | But already a fresh wave of sepoys was pouring over the ramparts and bounding forward to the attack over that rubbery carpet of bodies . |
| 11 | ‘ Sir Charles had left his footprints all over that little bit of the path where he was standing . |
| 12 | Speculation over possible Syrian-Israeli negotiations on the Golan Heights [ see p. 38025 ] continued in March and served to heighten tension within the divided Israeli leadership . |
| 13 | Volvo confirmed recently that both companies had been holding ‘ discussions ’ over possible joint ventures in the European motor market . |
| 14 | But as the debates over possible American intervention in Bosnia showed , there are many cases where such conditions are not going to be met ; where the political case is confused , the endgame a matter of guesswork . |
| 15 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 16 | He made over fifty first ascents of peaks between the Jotunheim and the North Cape . |
| 17 | He has multiplied his numbers to plague proportions , caused the extinction of 500 species of animals , ransacked the planet for fuels and now stands like a brutish infant , gloating over this meteoric rise to ascendancy , on the brink of a war to end all wars and of effectively destroying this oasis of life in the solar system . |
| 18 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 19 | Adult education programmes have consistently used more local languages and the current realisation that formal and non-formal education must be more closely linked has , at last , awakened concern over this strange state of affairs . |
| 20 | Yet it is intriguing that on that day , he cut between Mary in the redoubt of her fells , puzzling over this ominous invasion of her feelings , and John-Augustus on the lake , drawing up char from the deep and cold lake , re-experiencing the failed innocence of his life . |
| 21 | If this review actually takes place , then it may indeed be the most suitable valediction for the Vulcan , and its supporters association whose disappointment and bewilderment has cast a shadow over this final year of the mighty delta . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , only minimal control over this basic aspect of construction has been possible with these devices . |
| 23 | It would be difficult to reduce the contents of the Review over this whole range to some kind of collective ideological manifesto , but for reasons different from those discussed above in relation to the Newbolt Report . |
| 24 | The progressive disengagement from extra-academic concerns , particularly at the level of cultural policy , is best revealed by the Review 's approach over this whole period to the study of language . |
| 25 | He was rubbing a red crayon over this latest addition to his map when Nora arrived . |
| 26 | There 's been anger and despair in the town over this latest example of violent crime , and increased calls for more police to bring the Gloucestershire force up to strength . |
| 27 | ‘ Oddly enough , ’ Baldwin replied , ‘ I was talking over this very matter with the King . |
| 28 | UI , an $11m affair , wants to retain its input into X/Open , but unless it can come to an arrangement over some other form of membership which OSF has so far failed to secure , it is likely to turn in its cards at the end of the year . |
| 29 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 30 | Harris paused for a few seconds while he negotiated the cabriolet over some deep ruts in the high road . |