Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of [noun] hanging over " in BNC.

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1 And when Crowe declared at lunch , England reappeared with the spectre of defeat hanging over them .
2 I do n't think either , given the succession of scandals and the aura of sleaze hanging over the Secretary of State 's quango sector that anyone would deny that in terms of value for money and financial probity , direct democratic control is a far better watchdog than the financial control systems of the Welsh office .
3 The threat of exposure hanging over her , so close that she had dwelled since — since when ? — as if she inhabited a thick cloud of suffocating fog .
4 He was seeing the Rorim as it should be , without the threat of ruin hanging over it — though tomorrow these same people would be stinting themselves to eke out their supplies through the winter .
5 Andy Currier and Paul Newlove are the newcomers , scarcely unheralded , but Reilly has chosen a squad rather than a team because of injury doubts over Andy Gregory and Joe Lydon , and with the threat of suspension hanging over Shaun Edwards .
6 There is nobody jumping up and down for joy at the news , and morale , which has been comatose , now has a sense of mortality hanging over it .
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