Example sentences of "over [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were whiffs of controversy in the air as the obsequies were dealt with , but only because a couple of the reporters interrogated retiring manager Micky Stewart over possible suspicion of Pakistan ball-tampering . |
| 2 | The Government was severely embarrassed by a similar action brought in 1988 by Harriet Harman , now a front-bench Labour MP , and Patricia Hewitt , formerly press secretary to Neil Kinnock , over covert surveillance of them by the security service , MI5 . |
| 3 | Ward managers report on expected levels of work over specific period of time throughout a typical week . |
| 4 | On his appointment as head of combined operations , he embarked on endless controversy over hypothetical command of raids by 5,000 men , although there were no more than 500 trained commandos and some 750 men in the Independent Companies . |
| 5 | However , while preparing for its first congress , a split occurred because of disagreements over private ownership of the means of production and land . |
| 6 | Their concern was over dietary intake of the plasticiser di-2-XXXX ethylhexyl ( DEHA ) used in PVC cling film and known to cause cancer in laboratory mice . |
| 7 | Riots over high cost of living |
| 8 | With a change in the rules over foreign ownership of domestic airlines now likely ( see main story ) , there may soon be more bidders . |
| 9 | The discounted margin ( DM ) is the solution to the following equation : where DM = discounted margin , rr = current value of reference interest rate , rr = assumed ( or forecast ) value of reference interest rate over remaining life of bond , QM = quoted margin , d/2 = next coupon payment ( i.e. d = reference interest rate on last coupon reset date plus QM ) , N tc = number of days between current date and next coupon payment date , S = number of coupon payments before redemption . |
| 10 | Arrange needles for 1×1 rib over required number of needles . |
| 11 | A growing scandal over illegal funding of the PS and of Mitterrand 's 1988 presidential re-election campaign came to a head in April . |
| 12 | Controversy over increased immigration of Soviet Jews |
| 13 | In the light of this advice , and using conservative growth rate assumptions , the directors have valued these catalogues and the other audio copyrights on the balance sheet at £12m , which represents a surplus over depreciated cost of £8.9m . |
| 14 | This is a brilliant if , as we can now see , over conjectural study of the development of legal ideas and forms of social organization . |
| 15 | PAPUA NEW GUINEA : Territorial conflict over small strip of border with Indonesia . |
| 16 | Jogs occur when , over small number of monomer units , the linear chain is displaced laterally but continues in the same direction as before . |
| 17 | It continues to maintain a negative rating outlook on IBM because of its business uncertainties and the question over ultimate success of restructuring . |
| 18 | Negotiations over Chilean membership of the group were due to resume in the second half of 1991 . |
| 19 | Several weeks of unrest , amid calls for the resignation of Prime Minister Vere Bird Sr over alleged misappropriation of funds , spilled over into violence in late February and early March . |
| 20 | A COUNCIL has admitted it blundered by sending a former employee a letter claiming magistrates had granted it a liability order over alleged non-payment of poll tax . |
| 21 | Conner Peripherals Inc duly sued Western Digital Corp over alleged infringement of five disk patents . |
| 22 | The failure of the scandal to subside , and the continuing expression of public disgust over lenient treatment of Kanemaru by the prosecuting authorities , was demonstrated by a protest march in central Tokyo on Nov. 10 . |
| 23 | MRI may show involvement of the renal veins and inferior vena cava in renal cell carcinoma and has the advantage over computed tomography of demonstrating the tumour/thrombus not only in the axial but in the coronal plane where the superior and inferior extent of involvement can be clearly shown . |
| 24 | Latest costings showed his cows giving 9,595 litres of milk with a margin over purchased feed of £1,545 and a gross margin per hectare at a ‘ staggering ’ £4,611 . |
| 25 | Others arrested for corruption in other parts of Italy included the DC president of the Abruzzi regional government and eight of its members on Sept. 29 , over fraudulent use of EC funds ; the PDS former president of the Tuscany regional government , Marco Marcucci , on Oct. 26 ; and the leader of the PSDI group in the Senate , Roberto Cenci . |
| 26 | Thus , while the British government shared the concern in Washington over Soviet encouragement of a separatist movement in the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan in the early months of 1946 , Bevin wisely chose to act merely in parallel with the United States at the UN . |
| 27 | The debate within the EC over trans-frontier movement of waste [ see ED 61 ] has been fuelled by the French government , which has banned with immediate effect the import of all domestic waste after discovering that potentially harmful hospital waste from Germany was being imported illegally into France . |
| 28 | Over other property of an infant , neither parents nor guardians have now — if they ever had — any effective powers , except such as a will or settlement or an order of the court may give them ; they can not , for instance , give a valid receipt for a legacy or money payable to the child . |
| 29 | The move was an attempt to break the hold over local government of the FIS , which in June 1990 had won control of 853 municipalities and 32 provinces [ see pp. 37549-50 ] . |
| 30 | Lillywhite leads by 20 seconds over Ole Simensen of Norway who also leads the Under 22 classification . |