Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [unc] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodore was determined to assert his authority throughout the whole Anglo-Saxon Church and it must have become immediately apparent that Oswiu 's influence over the new archbishop was minimal . |
| 2 | Aussie golf star Greg Norman has the course record of 63 , which is a mere four shots better than Geoff 's performance over the course . |
| 3 | Although Nicholas 's victories over the Persians in 1828 and the Ottoman Empire in 1829 had made him temporarily safe from international complications in this area , they did little for the extension of Russian control over the peoples who lived to the north of Georgia . |
| 4 | But , of course , executive control of Parliament and Parliament 's supremacy over the courts mean that the constitution may become simply what Her Majesty 's Government says it is . |
| 5 | This mission statement is based on the notion that there will be a strong convergence between the public interest and members ' interests over the longer term , but is this necessarily so ? |
| 6 | Perhaps the Institute can , indeed , maintain an appropriate balance between the public interest and members ' interests over the longer term , but on the evidence currently available , it should come as no surprise that members are unwilling to accept too much on trust . |
| 7 | And the only pictures in the house that she had seen were the sentimental , old-fashioned print in her room and Finn 's dog over the mantelpiece , which a child might have painted and hung up , to show off . |
| 8 | But Labour 's lead over the SNP was 30 percentage points , a far cry from the four-point gap which separated them in January , in the wake of the nationalist victory at the Govan by-election . |
| 9 | The transference of Ernest Bevin direct from the leadership of Britain 's largest trade union to the Ministry of Labour , symbolized Labour 's role in the new order — not least because Bevin 's control over the allocation of manpower came to displace the traditional operations of the Treasury , as the lynch-pin of Government economic management . |
| 10 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |