Example sentences of "of [noun sg] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 2 | Where the landlord is able to choose how to divide ownership and responsibility for a party structure it is suggested that the structure be divided between adjoining owners and that each owner have an easement of support over the other 's half . |
| 3 | The best we can do is to grow a covering of skin over the stump where the amputation occurred . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , do n't be ridiculous , Giles , calm down , calm down , come and have a nice Perrier water , ’ said Liz , taking his other arm , and , with Kate , attempting to lead him away from the fracas , as one would a child in a playground from its tormentor ( for Giles 's antagonist Paul Hargreaves , pale faced , dark suited , silver-grey tied , was smiling calmly with a horrible amusement at this distressing scene ) : but the desperate Giles was beyond leading , and fell back heavily as he attempted to disengage himself from his two intercessors , crashing into a large fern and some pots of bulbs and sending earth and splashes of champagne over the carpet . |
| 5 | Polling was essential and scurs or ‘ slugs ’ were strictly ruled out , and a fringe of hair over the forehead was desirable . |
| 6 | After the previous Armed Forces minister , Archie Hamilton , was replaced by Mr Hanley , Mr Brandreth asked for a meeting in the hope that a change of minister might mean a change of heart over the pay office . |
| 7 | In recognition to the part Sue Davies has played in the promotion of photography over the years , she was awarded an OBE in 1988 . |
| 8 | During the autumn and winter keep the compost from drying out completely , which means providing some kind of protection over the plant . |
| 9 | First , Mr Delors — who had earlier sent a furious letter to Mr Major , complaining of Britain 's lack of faith over the TV pact — had kept him waiting for over an hour at Heathrow while his flight from Brussels was delayed by fog . |
| 10 | Some writers have attempted to draw up some general guidelines which relate the weeding of research material to the concept of obsolescence — the diminution in the use of literature over the course of time . |
| 11 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 12 | … in every Department a store of knowledge and experience in the subjects handled , something which eventually takes shape as a practical philosophy , or may merit the title of a departmental philosophy … in most cases the departmental philosophy is nothing more startling than the slow accretion and accumulation of experience over the years … |
| 13 | He or she will receive a flow of income over the year and will engage in a flow of spending over the same period . |
| 14 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 15 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 16 | Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture . |
| 17 | All of those extra sums , if you total them up , we 're talking about quite a lot of money over the budget and that 's why I 'm getting concerned because there seems to be some between what the budget said we were going to do and what a chairman here and a chairman there has agreed , and I I 'd like to get it back onto position . |
| 18 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |
| 19 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 20 | State briefly , in relation to planetary observations , the advantages of radar over the receipt of naturally emitted radio waves . |
| 21 | Sometimes a real sense of space is achieved , as on the second-millennium stele of Naramsin , where figures move up and down a tree clad hill under the stars ; but in general it seems no more than an alternative convention for the organisation of narrative over the surface . |
| 22 | Rave kids should be throwing petrol bombs at the Houses Of Parliament over the way their right to party has been thrown in the proverbial dumper , but they are n't . |
| 23 | Although the United Kingdom has no written constitution , it is a constitutional convention of the highest importance that the legislature and the judicature are separate and independent of one another , subject to certain ultimate rights of Parliament over the judicature which are immaterial for present purposes . |
| 24 | She submitted that the law built up through custom and practice appeared to have had no difficulty in affording to a child born after the death of its parent a right of action over the death . |
| 25 | Hobhouse 's evolutionary method was , however , also reminiscent of Comte since he argued that it was the growing domination of mind over the conditions of life that enables us to appreciate the importance of the collective framework of society . |
| 26 | Hope you managed to get some sort of break over the weekend and that you 're not too behind on schedule — it 'll probably pick up later on in the shoot ! |
| 27 | There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making . |
| 28 | It 's a fair bet that 90 per cent of people would admit to a maelstrom of confusion over the facts behind the tragedy of the country which was once called Yugoslavia . |
| 29 | Oh Spilled my cup of tea over the tablecloth . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |