Example sentences of "over [art] [noun pl] ' [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The masks , however , were specially constructed — made from heavy-duty , vulcanised rubber and fitted by stretching them over the actors ' heads so that they clamped underneath the nose and at the back of the crown .
2 A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon .
3 Concern over the wholesalers ' order profiles , however , had been put on the company 's agenda some six months ago .
4 The ECSC treaty created the High Authority as an executive institution , with control over the members ' coal and steel industries which would pursue common policies on prices , working conditions and the like .
5 Protest meetings had been held throughout Romania in July over the authorities ' refusal to release Munteanu and others detained since the violence in Bucharest on June 13-15 .
6 Plans were put into action to buy and erect floodlights , but more importantly to install toilets , as the constant ‘ watering ’ of the oak tree behind the grandstand was causing it to rot away and sway , menacingly , over the directors ' seats .
7 Goodwill arising on consolidation before 1st April 1985 and arising after 1st April 1990 is amortised through the profit and loss account over the directors ' estimate of its useful economic life .
8 I came over the Brownies ' Bridge .
9 The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) .
10 over the strangers ' wake .
11 Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower .
12 He wears pink rubber gloves , their tops stretched over the overalls ' cuffs .
13 A United Kingdom Foreign Office Minister of state , Tristan Garel-Jones , announced in parliament on Nov. 22 that the British government had authorized the search for oil off the coast of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands , and issued a proclamation asserting British jurisdiction over the islands ' seabed and continental shelf .
14 The pair fell over the Lions ' goal line with four arms wrapped round the ball and there was a moment when Bunce had more contact on the ball .
15 Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches .
16 He vacillated over the lorry-drivers ' strike , shrinking in the end from declaring a state of emergency and ruling out the use of troops to move medical supplies from the docks .
17 Seconds later Blues ' midfielder Lee Doherty headed the ball just over the Reds ' crossbar from Stephen Beatty 's left wing cross .
18 Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim .
19 In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break .
20 A flock of chattering sparrows came over the Cages , landed on the grass by the litter bin where Woil had taken stance , and then twittered off again over the tigers ' cages .
21 Some things he longed to talk about — he agonized over the Christians ' attitude to nuclear bombs and it grieved him that Fisher did not agonize .
22 The country worker who came to town lost much of his independence , in spite of the long-established guilds , which had existed from the past to watch over the workers ' interests .
23 In 1983 , Pilkingtons management bypassed stalled central negotiations to install new plant-specific negotiating procedures over the unions ' heads .
24 His emphatic win gave Dunlop their second victory in two races and virtually erased any doubts over the tyres ' performance in the crucial rubber war .
25 But as before , their influence over the voters ' mood ended well before the polling booth .
26 The plan has provoked a fierce debate within France , with President Mitterrand 's wife , Danielle , leading the protest , and Environment Minister Brice Lalonde expressing concern over the bears ' fate .
27 Had the Lebanese gunmen not been so enthusiastic in their celebrations , they might have noticed a small but symbolic incident which cast a shadow over the Syrians ' arrival .
28 This deployment of weapons , with the fast-firers mounted high , is because we are the tallest Titan , and will aim over the Warlords ' shoulders
29 An attempt to regain control over the peasants ' movement
30 Then the chains on some passes were too short to pass over the wearers ' heads : they were getting longer chains in .
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