Example sentences of "over [Wh det] [vb mod] " in BNC.

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1 One of these can form part of a reference archive , the other is a working copy , upon which notes and details can be written , or over which can be placed transparent overlays to mark grains , microprobe analysis sites etc .
2 The SEC and CFTC are fighting in the courts over which should regulate ‘ stock-basket ’ products , new financial instruments with a cash security and a futures contract .
3 The latest row , over which should own the Crimea-based Black Sea fleet , has revealed both the strength of irredentist feeling in Moscow and the depth of animosity in Kiev towards the northern neighbour .
4 You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen .
5 But until last night , there had been no clear line over what would happen in future years to the Government 's remaining holdings in these utilities .
6 In July 1836 , Whitman and his new wife Narcissa , accompanied by the stern , short-tempered Reverend Henry Spalding and his ailing spouse , Eliza , hauled a wagon over what would become the Oregon Trail , to Fort Vancouver .
7 There has been difference of opinion not merely over the content of any explanation , but also over what would count as an explanation .
8 But his skin would crawl as if he 'd somehow sensed that he was being watched , and he 'd switch on every light that he could find , including the big spotlights out over what would one day become the car park .
9 This would ensure directionality , but it would still leave the problem of getting the message from one end of the signalling cell to the other over what would now be a relatively long distance .
10 For example , civil servants collected information and press cuttings on the bombing of a school at Getalfe , in Madrid , in October 1936 , when 70 children were killed in horrific circumstances , and pondered over what would be the effect on public morale if a similar event were to happen in Britain .
11 It rejects what other conceptions of law accept : that people can have distinctly legal rights as trumps over what would otherwise be the best future properly understood .
12 In short , the MDC has presided over some successes , but not over what might be termed the regeneration of Liverpool 's docks .
13 A House have been the recipients of the kind of underwhelming apathy that would lead most bands to go back to their day jobs and while away their evening swilling pints In The Norseman , mulling over what might have been .
14 It is seldom practised with roses now — there is so little advantage over what can be achieved by budding — and is really of superfluous interest to be included here .
15 And now they were turning towards Hoggatt 's Laboratory , coming in low over what must be the Wren Chapel .
16 After the match Trevor and I had a heated argument over what will , undoubtedly , be another suspension .
17 They were part of a broader argument against the powers of the state over what could and could not be published and what ideas could and could not be tolerated .
18 Confusion over what could or could not be reported arose , however , because of differences of interpretation among French , Saudi , UK and US officials in Saudi Arabia and in their respective capitals .
19 Then I realized I was kneeling on a tarpaulin which someone had carefully placed over what could have been a small metal gate — or — the detached ‘ fun bumper ’ cow-catcher device from a small four-wheel-drive vehicle , say , a Shogun .
20 The mother is very upset , more over what could have happened .
21 The problem for the State is , that while the family sent a letter in 1942 declaring its intention to reach an agreement over what should be considered inalienable heirlooms and therefore assured a permanence in the family 's headquarters of Schloss St Emmeram in Regensburg , this agreement was never actually realised .
22 In the second half of September the Bavarian Cultural Ministry was still in discussion with the Fürstin over what should be included in the sale , with particular efforts being made to acquire , or cause to be withdrawn , items with strong Bavarian or Regensburg connections .
23 There was , however , no agreement over what should replace the mental hospital .
24 The work will examine the way : familiar narratives are used to make the programme understandable and significant ; decisions are made over what should be treated as factual ; competing claims about facts are assessed .
25 Evidently the question has arisen in discussions over what should happen next at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics ( CERN ) .
26 There is controversy over what should be built on ground which includes sensitive sites from Berlin 's war time history .
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