Example sentences of "a [noun sg] with [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit was technically in breach of a ban on high-level visits imposed by the EC after the massacre , but the UK claimed exemption on the grounds that it was vital to maintain a dialogue with China over Hong Kong . |
| 2 | The first Mediterranean Agreement ( February 1887 ) promised to Italy the support of Germany in a war with France over Mediterranean questions , while Great Britain exchanged with Italy mutual guarantees of the Mediterranean status quo and support . |
| 3 | PREMIER John Major is preparing for a showdown with France over the crucial Gatt trade deal . |
| 4 | PREMIER John Major is preparing for a showdown with France over the crucial Gatt trade deal . |
| 5 | THE United Nations appeared to have exhausted the options last night for avoiding a showdown with Libya over its refusal to extradite two Lockerbie bombing suspects , writes Alan Philps , Diplomatic Correspondent . |
| 6 | He said Christopher Davies who was working in the shop Butterflys on Grange Road , Darlington , was injured during a fracas with Cowper over the theft of a £11.75 torch . |
| 7 | My wife and I do n't believe this practice can be illegal but we both feel that such a man with influence over vulnerable young boys is the wrong person to teach them . |
| 8 | Also encouraging has been the fact that a row with America over government procurement , which threatened to spill over into tit-for-tat sanctions , was averted at the last minute . |
| 9 | And then , of course , come along and er for while there was a competition with chasers over the forest , you know one running either just in front , or just behind the other , sort of thing . |
| 10 | ‘ Triumphant death ’ , as it came to be called by Evangelicals , was , first and foremost , a triumph with Christ over death ; in St Paul 's words , ‘ Death is swallowed up in victory . ’ |