Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Visa has final say over the artwork on Visa cards . |
2 | CONFIDENCE in Derby favourite Tenby continued to wane over the weekend in response to his poor workout . |
3 | Well well I do , I heard it over the weekend in fact , that I can er , have er , another BUPA medical to start with . |
4 | 715 , some control over the exercise of jurisdiction was well recognised . |
5 | An approximate indication of cost can be given over the phone on receipt of a few basic facts . |
6 | Ruth pulled the coverlet straight over the bed in No. 4 . |
7 | Rod Richards , the Tory MP for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
8 | Rod Richards , the Tory Member for Clwyd North West , was speaking at an impromptu Press conference called during a constituency surgery at Rhyl which had been picketed by a small group of demonstrators objecting to his stance over the issue of pit closures . |
9 | The Charter , backed by David Hatch , managing editor of Radio 1 , is considered a defensive move by the BBC as it prepares for difficult negotiations with the government over the issue of privatisation of the national network . |
10 | Both the Board of Education and Ministry of Health were acutely sensitive on this issue , given the controversy that had raged in the 1930s over the issue of child malnutrition and ill health . |
11 | 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 ] . |
12 | The next time they feel it necessary to spout off in such an ill-informed , ill-advised and half-cocked manner over the issue of immigration , perhaps Councillors and should remind themselves that some of the most severe immigration laws were actually introduced by a Labour Home Secretary . |
13 | I claimed there that holists and individualists are not in fact disagreeing principally over the issue of reduction as has generally been supposed . |
14 | Other sources of budgetary tension between Congress and the President during June included the passage by Congress of a bill to grant automatically renewable benefits to the long-term unemployed , and a confrontation over the issue of emergency urban aid . |
15 | In the meantime , he appealed to the republics to declare a moratorium " on decisions which give rise to arguments over the issue of competence " , complaining that the alternative was incurable paralysis . |
16 | Scottish Militant Labour also rounded on the Scottish Labour Party yesterday over the issue of water privatisation . |
17 | The agreement surprised many observers because the talks had appeared deadlocked over the issue of independence for the copper-rich island of Bougainville , with each side accusing the other of responsibility for atrocities committed during the two-year guerrilla struggle . |
18 | Notwithstanding Clinton 's protestations , the agonies suffered over the issue of draft evasion by Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate during the 1988 campaign meant that many Republicans seized upon the allegations against Clinton with undisguised delight . |
19 | Dave Cook and myself planned to force a confrontation with the military over the issue of access to Range West . |
20 | In the lowlands both farmers and environmentalists may combine to oppose development , but are often at loggerheads over the issue of access to farmland . |
21 | The Moldovan Popular Front , which had backed Snegur , a former communist , was split over the issue of unification with Romania . |
22 | The move raised questions over the issue of control in aircraft charter arrangements , which several airlines operated with Vietnam . |
23 | That conference had floundered largely as a result of the Phnom Penh government 's apprehension over the issue of power sharing and the role of the UN . |
24 | A proposal to establish a commission , initially based in Hawaii , which would promote trade and develop free markets within the region , ran into difficulties over the issue of finance . |
25 | The spring of 1996 saw the most alarming disruption to date : protest action including a national overtime ban by prison officers over the issue of staffing levels ( especially in local prisons and remand centres ) led to major riots by inmates . |
26 | In 1914 she resigned from the paper because of differences with her colleagues over the issue of war , and became a member of the executive committee of the Union of Democratic Control , founded by E. D. Morel [ q.v. ] to campaign against secret diplomacy . |
27 | However , over the months I have been looking I have become increasing frustrated over the issue of VAT . |
28 | Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue . |
29 | Thomas Sutton also participated in the quarrels between the Friars Preacher and the Friars Minor over the issue of poverty . |
30 | Gen. Chaovalit resigned his post ostensibly following a verbal exchange with a Cabinet colleague over the issue of corruption . |