Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir David did not comment on Britain and China 's war of words over Hong Kong 's future , or Hong Kong 's recent differences with Peking over the Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who was allowed to leave Hong Kong for the United States . |
| 2 | I remember two summers ago crossing the Dales with a backpack and camping at Malham after a glorious hot day 's walking from Horton over Pen-y-ghent and Fountains Fell . |
| 3 | Thus in 1296 he consulted his council of magnates who advised him that a certain papal provision would prejudice the crown ; and in 1299 he contested the pope 's claim to sovereignty over Scotland as a threat to the dignity of his crown . |
| 4 | Structuralist linguists retaliate to the generative linguist 's claim for competence over performance with the argument ‘ An automatic language-processing system which works adequately for competent language but fails on performance is a futile system , because all there is to be processed is performance . ’ |
| 5 | It exposed the moral dangers of the mechanistic philosophy that had begun with Bacon and had fuelled humankind 's drive for dominance over Nature . |
| 6 | The United States showed no sign of wishing to intervene in Spain 's quarrel with Britain over Gibraltar , but was not deterred from seeking closer relations with Spain . |
| 7 | It is also the key to a Pandora 's Box of problems over rights and copyright . |
| 8 | To these powers , one must add the power to appoint governors ( BBC ) and members ( IBA ) of the authorities , and in the context of programmes , the government 's power of veto over programmes . |
| 9 | So , it 's stuck with defending this form of public housing in the face of mass dissidence within the working class itself , not so much with the principle of council housing as the tenants ' lack of control over design and management . |