Example sentences of "[noun prp] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 2 | Furthermore , neither Roosevelt nor the State Department was persuaded that the British would necessarily or at least wholeheartedly support the United States over the whole range of its postwar interests and aspirations . |
| 3 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |
| 4 | Then the row blew up with Hungary over the enforced assimilation of ethnic Hungarians , involving plans to raze their villages . |
| 5 | It is near this point that the Pennine Way crosses Swaledale from Tan Hill over the bleak mass of Stonesdale Moor , falling down into Keld and on by Thwaite to Shunner Fell . |
| 6 | A joint Russian , Moldovan and Dnestr peacekeeping force had been deployed on July 29 to halt the fighting after an agreement signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Moldovan counterpart Mircea Snegur over the future status of the Dnestr region [ for July agreement see p. 39019 ] . |
| 7 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 8 | now , I mean you 've been very to Neil over the last year or so and I mean now it 's time to get his act together . |
| 9 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 10 | THE apparent squabble between the South African government and the ANC over the precise nature of their agreement on the immediate political future is more show than anything else . |
| 11 | He was active in Westmorland over the forced loan . |
| 12 | This line did not meet with the approval of the IRA hardliners , who have escalated the violence in Northern Ireland over the last year to an intensity not seen since the worst days of the 1970s . |
| 13 | Negotiations between the UK and Spain over the political future of Gibraltar continued intermittently . |
| 14 | Both may be guessing , although the Encomiast is reasonably well-informed on the campaigns late in Æthelred II's reign , and William 's report of mixed methods need not be far wrong , even if it is a guess ; the armies which troubled England over the long period between c.985 and 1016 do often seem to have comprised the warbands of a number of men , are unlikely to have been organised and commanded solely by Danish kings , did not consist entirely of Danes , and frequently appear to have been motivated mainly by a desire for booty . |
| 15 | The latest incident follows 24 attacks — one fatal — in Hampshire over the past year . |
| 16 | The western edge of these Atlantic gems are fringed by wonderful , white , shell-sand beaches , backed by flower-bright , green machair plains ; the east coast is rugged and inhospitable , bounding a trackless land , confronting mainland Scotland over the stormy Minch , beyond Cuillin on Skye . |
| 17 | I have written before about the controversy raised in Scotland over the National Trust for Scotland 's mountain properties and breaking the ‘ rules ’ set by its mountaineering benefactor Percy Unna , who wanted the hills kept natural . |
| 18 | My teaching finished just before Easter , and on my way north I went to the national cycle rally , which was held in a motor camp near Blenheim over the long weekend . |
| 19 | Talks between the ruling AP and the opposition MNR , CONDEPA and MBL , which had been convoked to resolve a political crisis which had arisen in November over the political role played by the Supreme court , many of whose members were linked with the MNR [ see pp. 37851-52 ] , broke down in March 1991 . |
| 20 | On March 6 a compromise solution was reached between Foreign Minister Stoyan Ganev and Zhelev over the National Intelligence Service , which would be the subject of legislation to allow for parliamentary supervision of it . |
| 21 | Having just bought Seamus Heaney 's latest book for Christmas , I can at least deny that I myself have been mean to Heaney over the festive season . |
| 22 | The ceasefire mediated by Kazakhstan on Aug. 28 between Azerbaijan and Armenia over the disputed region of Nagorny Karabkah [ see p. 39059 ] produced little respite in the fighting . |
| 23 | Sun 's German users in particular are said to favour the Motif option , and IXI has been out testing the waters on both sides of the Atlantic over the last couple of weeks . |
| 24 | Two different conceptions of socialism , Burlatsky suggested , had been applied in the USSR over the post-revolutionary period . |
| 25 | The letter on the mantelpiece irked her and she eyed Mrs Rae over the steaming cup and wondered at the impulsive gesture that had made her invite the woman in for tea . |
| 26 | MORE than 2000 houses will be provided in Lothian over the next year in the largest investment programme yet undertaken by Scottish Homes . |
| 27 | HONG KONG — Xu Jiatun , China 's senior official in Hong Kong , was summoned to Peking for talks on the dispute between China and Hong Kong over the Chinese swimmer Yang Yang , who was allowed by Hong Kong to go to the US last week , writes Kevin Hamlin . |
| 28 | In contrast , the drop in the United Kingdom over the same period has been from 4.4 to 3.1 per 100,000 of the population — a reduction of 32 per cent . |
| 29 | PRIME Minister John Major was holding crisis talks today with European Commission president Jacques Delors over the looming world trade war . |
| 30 | But the battles I had at the BBC over The Monocled Mutineer and Tumbledown ! |