Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 2 | For any Whites who harbour a sentiment for the famed Seadogs of Scarborough , chairman Geoffrey Richmond has resigned after a boardroom row over admission prices . |
| 3 | Use a fat blusher brush to sweep a pinky blusher over cheekbones and to dust lightly over chin , browbone and perhaps temples . |
| 4 | Congress approved legislation on June 25 to force an immediate end to a rail strike over pay and conditions which had begun on June 24 , and which had severely disrupted freight and passenger services . |
| 5 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 6 | Good For A Loan is potentially well treated on some of his form last term - which included a neck verdict over Sukaab at the Somerset circuit 13 months ago - and can produce a potent turn of foot under favourable conditions . |
| 7 | I remember too the suppressed terror I felt one Saturday morning when there was a daylight raid over London and a swarm of black flies appeared in the blue sky and seemed to come on and on as we looked out of our house high on Hampstead Heath . |
| 8 | Later in the year , two U S A Thunderbolt Fighters landed after a daylight sortie over France , they were painted in the usual drab green camouflage colour and both had a pink and red glamour girl on the side about twenty feet long , typical of the Yanks . |
| 9 | Hayling 's dummy had been a marathon performance over months , whilst Sutton had had only a short time and few people . |
| 10 | For a long time the professionals had a preference for a pruning knife over secateurs . |
| 11 | Certainly , he can enjoy the outcome for a day or two , but there is still a question mark over dealings in the longer term on the all-important economy , with the rivalry between the trading blocs dictating how ‘ special ’ the ‘ relationship ’ is likely to remain . |
| 12 | Director General Sir Michael Checkland put a question mark over favourites like Big Break , Telly Addicts and Going For Gold yesterday . |
| 13 | Separating passengers would add time to the tunnel journey and some observers believe it could destroy any time advantage over ferries , putting a question mark over Eurotunnel 's entire operation . |
| 14 | Such a crushing victory inevitably puts a question mark over President Francois Mitterrand 's future , despite his repeated insistence that there was no question of his resigning . |
| 15 | The council issues a default notice if there is a question mark over hygiene . |
| 16 | Dr Hendron said : ‘ I 'm not saying that the talks should stop , but that there us a question mark over Mr Adams ' credibility . |
| 17 | They are trained in a corridor fashion over latadas , a sun-bleached framework of chestnut wood posts with a lattice of canes on top . |
| 18 | It was a paper produced by and for the radical , and generally non-tribal , urban Africans : in fact , it was very nearly involved in a libel case over criticism of Chagga chiefs . |
| 19 | The Russian historian from Southmoor in Oxfordshire had lost a libel action over allegations relating to Lord Aldington 's role in the forced repatriation of thousands of Cossacks after the Second World War . |
| 20 | JUBILANT Howard Wilkinson was last night celebrating a transfer triumph over Kenny Dalglish . |
| 21 | E actually yours made me think of a story that I was told many years ago on a coach trip over Dartmoor |
| 22 | Goals like a tennis victory over Boris Becker can , however , be changed to achievable ones , such as , improving your game of tennis . |
| 23 | However , other chip makers , in producing work-alike processors , decided that more speed gave them a selling point over Intels , and thus 20 and 25MHz 286 chips became common , as did 25 , 33 , and 40MHz 386 units . |
| 24 | After the river , he took a train as far as the Burmese would allow foreigners to go , about a hundred miles short of their guerrilla war , and after that there was a vintage plane over mountains to the real Burma Road ; the road whose legend occupies an odd corner of the memory , like Hannibal 's Alpine venture . |
| 25 | A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling . |
| 26 | Legent , he said , has a head start over Computer Associates in this respect . |
| 27 | Among the merry passengers were a group of Scotland 's most adventurous old tars , hell bent on celebrating a mid-week victory over Wales . |
| 28 | PREMIER John Major is at the centre of a Cabinet battle over interest rate cuts , it was revealed last night . |
| 29 | Fears that Clinton would adopt a protectionist stand , favouring a trade war over co-operation , also appeared to be groundless ; the president favoured settling the GATT negotiations on world trade . |
| 30 | President-elect Clinton takes office in January after a landslide victory over Bush earlier this month . |