Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place the frozen truffles on a wire rack over a baking sheet . |
| 2 | In conjunction with a state of emergency the President might also impose temporary direct presidential rule over a union republic . |
| 3 | Satie over a building society commercial . |
| 4 | His brother Eugene ( right ) , the publicity chief for London/FFRR Records , wears an even bigger linen suit over a rayon polo shirt . |
| 5 | The baggy suede jacket over a cashmere jacket , costly jeans and light brogues all bespeak a casual wardrobe allowance which is probably greater than the amount most people spend on a new car . |
| 6 | Gethin Butler ( Norwood Paragon ) won yesterday 's Hope Valley Classic , third round of the season-long Star Trophy national road race series , over a 104-mile course at Bishop 's Castle , Shropshire . |
| 7 | Now there was a stronger motive for the killing of Dominic Wetherby than mere resentment over a promotion leap-frog . |
| 8 | Lady James , you had to come over a water bridge at er , her stud . |
| 9 | Mare and foal over a water bridge . |
| 10 | Compensation Fund should be responsible for claims over a fidelity bond ‘ excess ’ of around 25,000 ( for sole principals ) plus 100,000 per partner in firms , up to a limit of 100,000 , with a cap on the fund up to 1 million , and a no claims bonus ; |
| 11 | Streets over a square-mile area were evacuated but after no bombs went off police blasted a window off the van and discovered the deadly cargo . |
| 12 | Teesside Crown Court heard a row broke out between Meehan , 44 , and the Mansha family over a gas meter at his bedsit in Marton Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 13 | The intense heat of being held over a gas jet will cause immediate and permanent discolouring . |
| 14 | Woks are best used over a gas flame . |
| 15 | If a piece of ordinary glass is heated over a gas flame , it softens easily , and eventually the heated part will gather itself into a drop and fall to the ground . |
| 16 | Further on , a hundred yards off-shore , as if he were walking on the water , his companion disturbed the glass-still lagoon as he strode through the shallows over a sand bar . |
| 17 | Mr Kinnock , who met opposition fugures in East Berlin last week over a working breakfast , claims the reform movement in Eastern Europe represents a triumph for European social democracy , not Thatcherism . |
| 18 | See , I 've got to talk to this guy over a working breakfast at my hotel first thing in the morning . ’ |
| 19 | These include such essentials as a preliminary sounding meeting with the head and whoever else is part of the school 's senior management ( i.e. anyone in a position to further the aims of the group ) to secure their sanction and support ; and an introductory meeting with as many of the staff as possible and manageable , for instance over a working lunch , regardless of who will eventually join the group , so that everybody knows what it will be about and interest is generated even in those who may not wish to join it . |
| 20 | The Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth , chaired by Lord Diamond and originally set up by the Wilson government in 1974 to appease the unions over a wealth tax , made a series of oracular judgements which confirmed the progress which was generally assumed . |
| 21 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 22 | Over a twelve-month period a field-worker 's persistent inquisitiveness is bound to become something of an irritant , and van Maanen notes how field-workers can not expect to be liked by all respondents ( 1982 : 111 ) . |
| 23 | There was a long silence , such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation . |
| 24 | Here the street-walkers were not too sophisticated : outside her tenement a harlot stood , skirts raised , over a chafing dish of coals on which she had sprinkled brimstone and perfume so as to fumigate herself . |
| 25 | This last feature is quite a nice touch , because it would enable control over a mono mix of your amp 's signal for monitoring purposes . |
| 26 | The European Boxing Union have ruled that Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Mendy can keep his European lightweight title following a row over a dope test which never took place . |
| 27 | A cyclist going over a pot hole is a very dangerous situation and this should be looked into . |
| 28 | over a backing tape and and that 's it . |
| 29 | The accusation came during an angry row over a newspaper story which claimed Anne had put off her wedding to Naval Commander Tim Laurence — and called Princess Di and Fergie ‘ two silly girls ’ . |
| 30 | Glasgow 's Health chief has been sacked in a row over a newspaper article . |