Example sentences of "a [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 Spare capacity would be resold to other British Telecom units , which could offer a variety of services over the network .
2 It can be seen that there is a wide range of statutory and semi-public bodies exercising a variety of controls over development in particular areas of the countryside .
3 Miss Danziger had heard a variety of interpretations over the many years . …
4 The next mill downstream has had a variety of names over the years : Russell Mill , Lowes Mill and more recently , Malvern Mill .
5 SHAPED BY A VARIETY of influences over the years the magnificence and legacy of Harewood remain unspoilt .
6 ‘ I would like to think that any sort of physical abuse does n't go on any more , but this does not mean that people might not get a bucket of water over them sometimes . ’
7 Obviously throwing a bucket of water over them is n't going to do a lot of good , so if there is a likelihood of it happening , you 'll need to be prepared .
8 A replacement will be announced in the next few days , while it has emerged that Donald Carr , who once as England captain poured a bucket of water over a Pakistani umpire , was proposed as referee for the recent Pakistan-Sri Lanka series — and like Graveney , was not surprisingly rejected .
9 A tall woman leaned from a balcony and emptied a bucket of water over them .
10 It related to an incident last August in Manchester Road Swindon when Mr Neilsen threw a bucket of water over a prostitute , Rachel Symonds .
11 The small party — Peter Young by now had about half the men he had brought from Maaloy — opened fire on the warehouse , the Colonel having already emptied his revolver in firing at a sniper 's window , and they kept the German from the window long enough for George Herbert to splash a bucket of petrol over the wooden walls .
12 ‘ With moped racing you can pick up a 50cc for about £20 , almost literally throw a bucket of paint over it and you 're away . ’
13 Then they held him down , flat on his back , as another Sturmabteilung poured a bucket of salt over the Englishman .
14 It was as if , said Callaghan , they had got bored with the subject , and suddenly ‘ chucked a bucket of whitewash over it . ’
15 Above , a gibbous moon fought a brave but doomed battle to be seen through the scudding cloud , occasionally emerging to spill its light like a bucket of whitewash over the slates .
16 Dawn slopped like a bucket of blood over the greasy waves of Lake Pontchartrain , splashing the seaside slum of Bucktown in red …
17 The insets to Fig. 1 a and b show , for K 3 C 60 and Rb 3 C 60 , respectively , the ( normalized ) resistivity ( T ) as a function of temperature over an extended temperature range .
18 But after Hereford 's defeat by Doncaster last week , it may be a case of confidence over conscience .
19 He says it 's just a case of mind over matter .
20 I think we ought to put a bit of sellotape over that one .
21 But there 's a couple of guys in another division over there that they were quite keen on er aircraft and they spent weeks building these bloody things and then er , and experienced flyer he 'd taken over to the other , other side of the estate when he had a bit of runway over there
22 ‘ Now all she needs is a bit of work over a mile and a quarter on Tuesday and she 'll be ready for Longchamp .
23 And each time you come to the exercise each time they says they say Here you are solve read through it with a bit of paper over it .
24 Where lay the basis for the belief that there was a corporate life , a level of interchange over academic matters in which all could feel themselves to be involved ?
25 It gives you a level of control over the configuration that is cleaner and quicker than anything DR-DOS offers in its question and answer CONFIG.SYS functionality .
26 The term ‘ best interests ’ is used to justify action which is taken with respect to children , but it is open to abuse , creates confusion and draws a veil of ignorance over important issues .
27 Team owner Frank Williams — the man who ultimately gave newly-crowned Mansell his chance of glory — was last night keeping a veil of secrecy over the identity of Mansell 's replacement .
28 The cryptic initials traditionally cast a veil of secrecy over the sitter 's identity and their gender , masking the subject through a process of partial revelation , that requires the intervention of a reader with privileged knowledge to complete the act of portraiture .
29 Well it 's just brought out a budget to paper over a few cracks and make it look good because they knew that , they 've got no more chances this is it in n it ?
30 we have extremely good erm figure on a reduction in accident over the last few years and I 'd like to erm , I 'd like Councillor to erm to prevail our thanks to the road safety officers
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