Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now it 's really gone a bit bit over the top I think . |
| 2 | If you produce an invoice , and on reading it onscreen discover that you have entered £350 instead of £250 , almost every Windows user will expect to drop a text cursor over the offending 3 and change it to a 2 . |
| 3 | By the summer of 1967 , when he left the Department of Education and Science for the Board of Trade , £16m. had been made available for a building programme over the next two years , with a further £18m. to follow in 1971/2 . |
| 4 | Now you do n't have to rely on this , because you can ring through to head office in the evening , or you can ring through your branch while that 's open , and get a computer quote over the phone , but actually find it quite useful if somebody asks me to be able to give them an idea of how much it 's going to cost them . |
| 5 | With the expansion of trade and industry in the twelfth century — perhaps the most prolific of all centuries for new towns until we come to the nineteenth — a few traders assembled periodically near a crossing place over the river Welland . |
| 6 | Instead , distract your child 's attention from the buckles by fitting a play tray over the top . |
| 7 | By lining a perforated box with filter matting , covering with a layer of gravel , and filling with planting media and bog plants it 's possible to set up a vegetable filter over the back of a tank . |
| 8 | The overall winning team was the Manchester firm Ove Arup and Partners who narrowly edged out the Sir Robert McAlpine squad on a card play-off over the last six holes . |
| 9 | A plaintiff once brought a defamation action over the allegation that he was a highwaym . |
| 10 | If we 'd had a boom economy over the last five years , the Stock Exchange would never have thought of phasing out the USM . ’ |
| 11 | Remembering always to carry her gas mask , stumbling home through the blackout with only a narrow beam of light from her torch to help her , and going to services in churches lit only by candles with a blackout curtain over the door . |
| 12 | He bought some rocks and stones , and spent the long summer evenings building a rock garden over the grave . |
| 13 | I prefer to kill rabbits the easy way whenever possible , so I position a purse net over the top of every bolt-hole and every entrance , subsequently making sure that every purse net that bags a rabbit is quickly removed and replaced with a fresh net . |
| 14 | I usually make a tape hood over the static vents to allow them to breathe without letting water droplets get into the tubes . |
| 15 | Even less visible except to immediate participants and police is the routine ‘ slow rioting ’ of Saturday night street brawling , which ( according to the perceptions of all the chiefs constables I have interviewed in a research project over the last year ) is assuming more menacing and violent proportions throughout the country . |
| 16 | After a short ceremony at their Sheffield Park Station at 2.00pm in the presence of Mr Andrew Dow , head of the NRM at York , she will haul a VIP train over the full length of the recently extended Bluebell . |
| 17 | On the table was a vase of flowers , a square honeycomb oozing liquid honey from its wax holes onto the dish , three jars of jam , each one a different colour of dark red , and a jug with a muslin cloth over the top . |
| 18 | At last , satisfied , he went to the sink and washed his hands , then came back and threw a muslin cloth over the board and its bloodied contents . |
| 19 | Any retrospective rule change would place a question mark over the reselections of Mr George Galloway in Glasgow Hillhead and Mr Ron Brown in Edinburgh Leith , who were both nominated on a majority of trade union votes . |
| 20 | The absence of facilities within GIS software for handling the effects of input data uncertainty and possible error propagation by GIS operations creates a question mark over the safe utilization of many aspects of the technology . |
| 21 | The Danish and French referendums on the Maastricht treaty have put a question mark over the future of the European Community . |
| 22 | It could even put a question mark over the future of England captain and selector Graham Gooch , whose fitness and discipline regime have become a hallmark of the current side , and which Gower has had some difficulty fitting in with . |
| 23 | They offended some of the more straight-laced among the constructors — people who might have been more inclined to help the Fittipaldis if they kept better company — and generally put a question mark over the Fittipaldi team : how it was surviving , with whose backing , by what means . |
| 24 | The arrival of Keown at Arsenal would put a question mark over the future of Steve Bould , although Graham has in the past employed a three-man system at the heart of the Highbury defence to great effect . |
| 25 | Clearly the school was fortunate in having this quality of professional support , and in common with many other schools these facts throw a question mark over the staff 's ability to match informed and enthusiastic curriculum debate with commensurate knowledge of available books and learning resources . |
| 26 | After a considerable delay , the government has agreed to implement the Griffiths ' recommendations , but in the meantime health services have remained overburdened and unable to care for many older people , and there is a question mark over the future of geriatric care as a result of the 1989 White Paper on health services . |
| 27 | In the intervening period between Maastricht and the further stages , the Prime Minister and the Government must face the fact that , if they are standing apart , they will put a question mark over the prospect of further investment and further development . |
| 28 | For the first time since the process of unification began it placed a question mark over the future of Kohl , who had made 14 campaign appearances and admitted that the result represented a " bitter defeat " . |
| 29 | The outcome put a question mark over the long-term survival of the centre-left coalition which took power in March [ see p. 38821 ] with a strong commitment to constitutional reform . |
| 30 | These disparities throw a question mark over the accuracy of social costs data . |