Example sentences of "over a [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lay a bed of mortar over a base of gravel or fine hardcore . |
| 2 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 3 | Jezrael swung herself breathless over a bar of rock and down into the wind-shadow of a huge erratic that faced the sharp-cut sunrise . |
| 4 | Hunter , 25 , who had to have a spleen removed after a tackle by a Japanese player during the Student World Cup in Italy last summer , is back in full training and is over a bout of tonsillitis . |
| 5 | The one with Pavarotti and Sid Vicious fighting over a vial of dope |
| 6 | The Housing Trust hands over a cheque to Community Council chairman and Middlesbrough Mayor Eddie Bolland today . |
| 7 | In that capacity he had presided over a campaign against corruption , and more positively over a relaxation of the restrictions upon private trade and local government . |
| 8 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 9 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 10 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 11 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 12 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 13 | Nigel Lawson enrolled in the Clark Gable ‘ Frankly , I do n't give a damn ’ school when he fell foul of his own party over a rise in interest rates just before the Tory conference . |
| 14 | Initial recordings were obtained in the cell attached configuration , and Fig 1A shows the activity of a single K + channel over a range of pipette potentials in one experiment . |
| 15 | K + channel activity was also studied over a range of pipette potentials in a series of excised inside out patches , and Fig 2A shows results from a patch that contained a single channel ( high K + bath solution , NaCl pipette solution ) . |
| 16 | As an example of the use to which these options were put in deciding the future lines of investigation in the project , it quickly became apparent by computing improved pictures over a range of plant ages and displaying the changes , that the measure of the changes was never likely to be large , and that the changes were not all in one direction . |
| 17 | It created a wide divergence of attitude over a range of policy issues , generated acute mutual suspicion , and prevented either capital from providing a core around which the nation 's business community could coalesce . |
| 18 | We show that position-independent , copy number-dependent expression of the Ea d gene occurs only with the Long construct ( 8/8 transgenic mouse lines , over a range of copy numbers , 1-30 copies ) ; in contrast , the Short constructs are subject to position-dependent effects . |
| 19 | Each model was tested using a Hubble parameter of h =0.5 and h =1 , and model ( 7 ) was tested over a range of neutrino masses . |
| 20 | The programme of study encourages individuals to develop their ideas and design progression over a range of fashion , furnishing and domestic textiles , carpet , wallpaper , laminates and decorative papers . |
| 21 | Had some bold prophet told the King that he was one day to preside over a change of Government wearing a Chinese dressing-gown , he would scarcely have believed his ears . |
| 22 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel . |
| 23 | A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones is then spread across the border between the pool proper and the bog garden , and the latter filled with a mixture of equal parts coarse peat and soil laid over a layer of gravel . |
| 24 | This version had provision for the hot gases of combustion to be passed round and over a layer of slurry spread upon a drying floor . |
| 25 | Like a camera my restless mind followed the rabid mongrels of Puno as they roamed down the narrow streets , through the tight patchwork of market stalls , over the rubble-lined railway track , to fight at last over a pair of cow 's horns I had seen earlier topping a pile of refuse . |
| 26 | The tape is played over a pair of stereo headphones to the subject who hears one member of the stimulus pair at one ear and the second member of the pair at the opposite ear . |
| 27 | BOBBY BROWN and Whitney Houston have had their first lover 's tiff … over a pair of pet pooches . |
| 28 | He had to reach up high to get the chocolate and accidentally knocked over a bottle of milk . |
| 29 | He was a little the worse for drink and there had been an argument over a bottle of whisky that Drew had in his pocket . |
| 30 | They got on exceptionally well over a bottle of whisky which the expatriate had brought as a gift . |