Example sentences of "the [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the struggle over levels of relief intensified , so the Alliance lost further ground . |
| 2 | The last phase of the Watergate scandal consisted of a prolonged battle between the President and those investigating the case over possession of these tapes . |
| 3 | Here , again , the American East Coast resorts have the advantage over Europe in that they experience very low temperature during the winter months . |
| 4 | He was running barefoot and had the advantage over Owen in his heavy shoes . |
| 5 | Further , to have made the concession over restoration of lands would have meant depriving their own people of their French interests , something which , for both moral and financial reasons , they were not prepared to do . |
| 6 | Or there is the grander scenery , and the more spectacular engineering , of the railway from Settle up to Carlisle , some of the finest railway landscape in Britain ; and the route over Shap with its visions of the Lakeland mountains ; and there are the superb night scenes from the railway viaducts that span the industrial towns of Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 7 | Rubin , the designers of all Soviet nuclear submarines , says leakage of plutonium from corroded nuclear torpedoes is not expected to start until 1995 or 1996 , but when it starts strong currents could disperse the contamination over distances of up to 100 kilometres . |
| 8 | I think it does mean though that issues like erm long term sickness erm the issue that you 've got with the two people in your patch , one of whom might go to the help desk , you need to get that resolved P D Q so you can say well I 've reduced my h the temp over budget by one . |
| 9 | Reflecting fears from the industry over inconsistency of enforcement , the regulatory authorities and their environmental health officers are to be given guidance on what is reasonable to expect in terms of training , and the wise operator will make sure that his training strategy is endorsed by the local EHO . |
| 10 | The uncertainty over evil in a way dominates the entire structure of The Lord of the Rings . |
| 11 | Equipped with Messerschmitt Bf109E fighters , the unit was composed of battle-hardened veterans who had seen much action during the fighting over England during the previous summer . |
| 12 | the view of the traffic planners here is that if the bike is to be seen as a realistic substitute to the car over distances of up to two km , then every point must be made accessible to it . |
| 13 | The Rev Geoffrey Peters , of Manningham , Bradford — a keen cricket fan — said a silent prayer for an end to the rumpus over allegations by England batsman Allan Lamb that Pakistani fast bowlers cheated . |
| 14 | The issue of conscription was a particularly tender one for the union , for it had for some time been under pressure from the Admiralty over breaches of the obligation of seamen , nominally enforced by the Board of Trade , that sailors should be on board their ships on time and hence not delay sailings . |
| 15 | EUROPEAN COMMUNITY finance ministers meet in Brussels today to seek a way out of the impasse over harmonisation of VAT and excise duty rates which , if unresolved , could make the 1992 single market unworkable . |
| 16 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 17 | Ditton worked in the bakery over vacations for a few years and reckoned that each man had an illegal income of about 10 per cent of his bread sales , very little of which appeared as a loss in the firm 's financial records . |
| 18 | Certain Cabinet ministers told the press on Tuesday they feared a head-on constitutional clash between the Prime Minister and the Queen over sanctions on South Africa . |
| 19 | I like the ones with the wipe over top like that do you ? |
| 20 | It was in this context that the scare over incest in the late nineteenth century developed . |
| 21 | The project will analyse the distribution over households of various indicators of living standards . |
| 22 | The top shelf needs to be high enough for the monitor to be seen from the back of the room over rows of heads . |
| 23 | It followed several months of public debate led by the DPP over calls for Taiwan independence , theoretically punishable under sedition laws as advocating secession [ see also p. 38291 ] . |
| 24 | He rolled the disc over segments of the city , the cross-hairs neatly quartering his domain . |
| 25 | The crisis over aid to eastern Bosnia has delayed the peace negotiations taking place at the United Nations . |
| 26 | Matrices of transition probabilities such as those given in the earlier examples are useful in that they summarize the behaviour over time of the system under study . |
| 27 | minor on Heard Island is entirely resident , not surprisingly so in view of the distance over water to more agreeable wintering grounds . |
| 28 | The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own . |
| 29 | Australia was drawn into the conflict over Bougainville as PNG 's major military supplier . |
| 30 | Knighted in June 1641 , as late as December he urged consultation with the king over suppression of the Irish rebellion . |