Example sentences of "over [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By extending judicial review to cover such non-governmental bodies performing ‘ public functions ’ , the courts have provided a valuable means ( even if of marginal importance ) of exercising legal control over the pursuit of governmental aims and policies . |
| 2 | Protests in 1371 were followed by further outbursts in 1376 in the so-called ‘ Good Parliament ’ , whose members suspected that the search for personal profit had , in some cases , taken precedence over the pursuit of the national advantage . |
| 3 | If you were sitting there you would have to peer over the pile of cups on your lap . |
| 4 | The range of these " PAs " is wide — church fetes , gymkhanas , cheque presentations , pushing over the pile of pennies . |
| 5 | With the other he dipped what looked like a hearthbrush into the bucket then flung its load of holy-water drops all over the pile of stones . |
| 6 | Ellen dropped an awed curtsy , rounded eyes gazing up at him over the pile of red woollen mantle in her arms . |
| 7 | The sheriff ran his eye over the pile of guns , ammunition pouches and knives , till it came to rest on a radio transmitter . |
| 8 | She handed over the small package , and then ran her gaze once more over the chaos in the office . |
| 9 | Now he lifted the whisk and moved to flick the stiff little brush with swift , sure gestures over the casing of the demi-divine dead paladin , commencing at his massive shoulders , descending reverently to his feet , almost as if dusting him — yet with quite a different consequence . |
| 10 | In between , and amid the unprecedented furore over the axing of Clive Rice and Jimmy Cook , Wessels had become South Africa 's new captain and had taken the squad to Australasia for the World Cup . |
| 11 | Following modifications , a flight test was planned over the Wash for the 13th . |
| 12 | The prince 's remarks follow massive public anxiety over the Duchess of York 's jetsetting antics at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 13 | These would have claimed much of Miller 's attention , but his expertise would have been in great demand over the cultivation of rare fruits . |
| 14 | So-called ‘ horror stories ’ ( gory illustrations depicting the de-beaking of turkeys , dogs being hanged , huntsmen exulting over the corpse of a fox , or reports of a senile researcher who failed properly to anaesthetise his animal subjects ) may well be effective copy and have an impact upon gullible readers but are of limited argumentative worth . |
| 15 | ‘ But , ’ I replied , ‘ if any of what we have said is true , why does Queen Margaret grieve over the corpse of an imposter ? |
| 16 | Visa has final say over the artwork on Visa cards . |
| 17 | In order to copy existing artwork onto film , cut some drafting film to size ( allowing plenty of room as a border ) and place it over the artwork to be copied , perhaps Sellotaping it in place over the page . |
| 18 | Now , looking out over the heartland to the eastern sky already flushed with the first faint gold of dawn , he said aloud : ‘ I let my father die deliberately . |
| 19 | The local newspaper , the Los Angeles Times , put the total number of people shot over the weekend at 53 . |
| 20 | It will be stored over the weekend at Winfrith and on Tuesday will arrive at Dounreay for reprocessing . |
| 21 | ‘ We did very well over the weekend on our van sales and sold 81,000 ice creams to the Co-op . |
| 22 | While everyone else departed , I stayed over the weekend with my mother . |
| 23 | ‘ We will probably have a party for her at my house over the weekend with some fireworks . ’ |
| 24 | It brought the number of people killed over the weekend to 25 . |
| 25 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 26 | But we did did take the opportunity over the weekend to actually run our traffic model er at a very crude level , I have to estimate . |
| 27 | I heard over the weekend of a terrible fuss because one club member was proposing to use an echo sounder to help locate fish on a lake . |
| 28 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 29 | Over the weekend of 10/11 August , I was involved in the search for the two divers who went missing because their club was not following the code of practice worded above . |
| 30 | Over the weekend of 21/22 September 1985 , for example , 60 protesters were arrested for wire-cutting at Molesworth and a further 55 were arrested or reported for the same action at RAF Sculthorpe . |