Example sentences of "[noun] hang over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The following month he publicly waived the death sentence hanging over the organizers of the second coup attempt of 1983 . |
| 2 | The younger was nineteen or so , just a few inches taller than Melanie , with longish , bright red hair hanging over the collar of a dark blue , rather military looking jacket with shoulder flaps and brass buttons . |
| 3 | When the sick and exhausted Armenians reached Beirut after the Ottoman collapse , they were allowed to build shacks on the swamps of Bourj Hammoud in the east of the city and then to erect houses which look to this day curiously Balkan , their wooden balconies hanging over the narrow streets of Camp Marash . |
| 4 | There were oil lamps hanging over the verandah , and they threw black shadows towards the mosque entrance , and towards the shop where clothes were sold , long since shut . |
| 5 | The peaks surrounding glacier-dominated Saas Fee may be less distinguished , but the ice-falls of the Feegletscher hanging over the village are in their way just as striking . |
| 6 | Two years ago , there were huge doubts hanging over the future of Cowley . |
| 7 | Family Finance : Investments with a no-lose guarantee With election uncertainty hanging over the stock market , Tom Tickell looks at equity bonds that offer at least your money back |
| 8 | And the Monster was sat in the bucket , filling the bucket with its bloated pink body , its great bulging legs hanging over the edge . |
| 9 | When I recovered myself and controlled my weeping , my attention was attracted by Granny 's photograph hanging over the mantelshelf . |
| 10 | This uncertainty hung over the European Fusion Programme at the start of 1989 and in Britain , home of JET , there were further questions being asked about the future of fusion and nuclear energy in general . |
| 11 | Indeed it is difficult to exaggerate the impenetrability of the mystery which for centuries hung over the problem of the strength and fracture of solids . |
| 12 | A large , badly painted portrait of Mayor Donlevy hung over the desk . |
| 13 | ‘ The only spectre hanging over the property market is unemployment at the moment . |
| 14 | His portrait hung over the fireplace in every tenement room and whitewashed cabin . |
| 15 | The big question-mark hangs over the tax-increase part of the programme . |
| 16 | Winston 's portrait hangs over the stairs . |
| 17 | There was a single filing cabinet , but in all other respects the room could have been inhabited by his father , the colonial Bishop whose portrait hung over the marble mantelshelf . |
| 18 | But occasionally she stared back at him and then up again , as she had sometimes before , except that this time , with the sense of crisis and danger hanging over the Cages , it seemed there was something urgent about her stance and her stares . |
| 19 | The next morning saw a sky heavy with rain hanging over the hills . |
| 20 | Next morning , painful rays of sunlight somehow filtered through the haze hanging over the city . |
| 21 | As she opened her mouth to shriek , he grabbed a green towel hanging over the shower rail and slapped it over her mouth . |
| 22 | What I 'd suddenly recalled was a picture hanging over the altar in the caravan ; this in turn had reminded me of one of the statues over the south porch of the Cathedral . |
| 23 | A towel hung over the door . |
| 24 | That sorrow hangs over the discontinued struggles of the SI . |
| 25 | An air of crisis hung over the closing stages of the 1993-94 budget process : the rejection of Bill Clinton 's stimulus package and a last-minute shortfall in grants from the state government in Albany left a $100m hole that suddenly forced fresh cuts on City Hall ( which , unlike the federal spendthrifts , must by law balance its budget ) . |
| 26 | Outside the smell from the brewery hung over the town , stifling as a warm pillow , making it difficult to breathe . |
| 27 | An air of unreality hung over the whole campaign . |
| 28 | Gloom and despondency hung over the royal party and Anne was more than a little resentful of having been required to join them in sanctuary . |
| 29 | He gestured to where the flag of the other Germany hung over the old Tiergarten . |
| 30 | Once back in the ops room , I laid the boy flat on his back , so far down the mattress that his dropped foot hung over the edge at the bottom , just as I had seen the Australian nurse do when I watched her during her London visit the previous year . |