Example sentences of "over the [noun pl] ' " 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | Would you really have ‘ Voulez Vous ’ over The Specials ' ‘ Gangsters ’ , or Chic 's ‘ Good Times ’ , both out at the same time in 1979 ? |
| 11 | over the strangers ' wake . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A similar scholarly consensus exists over the Nationalists ' vastly greater success in dealing with internal factionalism . |
| 14 | He wears pink rubber gloves , their tops stretched over the overalls ' cuffs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She 's heartened by her win over the Americans ' No.2 Audra Keller , who also outranks her , on Wednesday . |
| 17 | She 's heartened by her win over the Americans ' No.2 Audra Keller , who also outranks her , on Wednesday . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At the end of the day I had the satisfaction of presiding in the Lords debate on the Bill and noting the very last words in Barbara Castle 's account of the affair : ‘ Now , unexpectedly , I have received a letter of ‘ appreciation ’ from Harold for the ‘ hard work and long hours ’ I have put in over the consultants ' ‘ package ’ . |
| 20 | Tuthanach slingshot whizzed and whirred , and two of the horsemen fell back over the mounts ' haunches . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Seconds later Blues ' midfielder Lee Doherty headed the ball just over the Reds ' crossbar from Stephen Beatty 's left wing cross . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 25 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 26 | Indeed in the case of Bijlmermeer , there is concern over the residents ' increased fear of assault by assailants concealed in shrubbery close to walkways between the flat blocks , so that in future some vehicular access to some of the blocks is to be permitted , even though it undermines the integrity of the segregation principle . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In 1983 , Pilkingtons management bypassed stalled central negotiations to install new plant-specific negotiating procedures over the unions ' heads . |