Example sentences of "over a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earlier row was over a decision by magistrates in Aylesbury to let two offendors wipe out a thousand pounds in fines by spending a few hours in police cells . |
| 2 | There was a major outcry in early February over a decision by officials of the Foreign Affairs and Interior ministries to allow George Habash , the leader of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( PFLP ) , to enter France on Jan. 29 for medical treatment . |
| 3 | ANGRY councillors demanded the resignation of two senior officials over a row with Powergen . |
| 4 | Signe 's apartment was in a small block built over a row of shops . |
| 5 | It is thrust northwards over a zone including metasediments with K-Ar dates of 365–345 Ma ( Late Devonian or Early Carboniferous ) . |
| 6 | Standing exactly where Mao Tse-tung proclaimed the People 's Republic of China on 1 October 1949 , paramount leader Deng Xiaoping joined other party leaders atop the Gate of Heavenly Peace to preside over a night of fireworks and martial music in Tiananmen Square . |
| 7 | My shorts were distributed over a half-acre of plants in the sharp silvery light of this place , in the form of white balls , fibrous globs . |
| 8 | Lay a bed of mortar over a base of gravel or fine hardcore . |
| 9 | However , this too was called off at the last minute , apparently because of opposition outrage over a massacre at Mbuji-Mayi in central Zaire . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The one with Pavarotti and Sid Vicious fighting over a vial of dope |
| 13 | When Thersites sees soldiers — we would have to change the modern parallel to those semi-pornographic animated cartoons like Ralph Bakshi 's Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat , or sado-masochistic literature — he sees a degraded struggle over a whore by men running with disease . |
| 14 | The Housing Trust hands over a cheque to Community Council chairman and Middlesbrough Mayor Eddie Bolland today . |
| 15 | Middlesbrough Mayor Coun Eddie Bolland will hand over a cheque from Middlesbrough Council 's community chest to help the photography project . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As always , it was difficult to judge the uphill putt over a kind of step . |
| 18 | He received Mark in the central lobby and took him to the Members ' tea room for a chat over a pot of tea . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Certain of his actions — including misleading the board over a transaction with Peter de Savary concerning a property development at Canvey and then concluding it without board approval — amounted to breaches of his fiduciary duty to Blue Arrow , the report says . |
| 21 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 22 | All these stars are concentrated in a field only a little over a degree in diameter . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Deficit up just over a half from $89.6m to $136.6m following losses on Hurricane Andrew' of US[55m — equivalent to 4 points on the Operating Ratio , which was up from 112.42% to 116.23% at the three-quarter stage . |
| 25 | Underwriting losses in Q2 down just over a half from $85.6m to $39.6m produced deficit $73.6m lower at $104.8m . |
| 26 | Bent over a crate of bottles , with his back to Timothy , Mr Plant gave a startled grunt . |
| 27 | There was his dear head , bent close to a tousled blonde mop over a pile of papers . |
| 28 | Such research has become possible only with the advent of tunable lasers , which can emit light over a range of wavelengths . |
| 29 | Text can be aligned over a range of columns by selecting the WYSI-WYG menu options : Text , Align , Centre and highlighting the relevant range of columns . |
| 30 | John McLaughlin often felt that guitar controllers lacked spontaneous reaction to attack , something that Lampi does n't have to worry about ( though McLaughlin 's new Photon system seems to work quite well over a range of sounds ) . |