Example sentences of "[noun sg] ['s] [noun] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankie Parks ' side 's performances over the past few weeks will be envied by Blues ' boss Trevor Anderson . |
| 2 | A churchman 's conscience over a sacred oath was the stumbling-block here . |
| 3 | According to the National Federation , this was clearly evident from Labour 's record over the past twenty years : |
| 4 | The Secretary of State can not interfere on a parent 's behalf over a curricular matter until the complaint has been pursued via the local complaints machinery . |
| 5 | The Honorary Secretary read the Minutes of the previous BGM and gave a report of the Committee 's activities over the past two years . |
| 6 | The ERM 's history over the past nine months makes it increasingly likely that monetary union , when it happens , will involve only a small group . |
| 7 | When you consider that going into the final Test the Australians , renowned for their safe catching in recent times , had missed 24 chances against India 's eight , you get some idea of the home bowler 's dominance over the fragile Indian batting throughout the series . |
| 8 | The central problem is that it is only ever possible to sample a child 's language over a fixed period of time and within a finite number of situations . |
| 9 | Amendments to Slovenia 's constitution adopted by the republican Assembly on Sept. 28 , which asserted the Assembly 's jurisdiction over the Slovene territorial defence force ( civilian units akin to a National Guard in the USA ) , brought Slovenia into conflict at the beginning of October with the federal Presidency , the federal Secretariat for National Defence , and the Serb-dominated JNA high command . |
| 10 | Too often the leadership 's victories over the left have had an unsavoury , pyrrhic quality . |
| 11 | In the Old Testament , Job alludes to the moon 's power over the human soul and there is another reference in Gen. i. 16 which refers to the moon as the lesser of the two great lights of heaven . |
| 12 | Although it might be construed in England as a joint papal and royal dissolution of a religious order and its houses , the statute of 1324 in waiving the king 's rights over the forfeited property omitted all mention of a papal grant to the Hospitallers and thus left on the statute book an impression of autonomous royal action . |
| 13 | Myddelton carried out the work at his own expense , but the city corporation was responsible for building and maintaining bridges ‘ for the passage of the King 's subjects over the said river or cut ’ . |
| 14 | Time to reflect on the day 's successes over a leisurely dinner , lovingly created by our award-winning chef … |
| 15 | Looping the dog 's lead over a handy gatepost , she came back . |
| 16 | The paper was prompted by the Law Society 's concern over the increasing cost of defaults — it estimates that claims against its compensation fund will reach £20m annually , mainly attributed to defaults of sole practitioners ( defaults within partnerships usually fall on the solicitors ' indemnity fund ) . |
| 17 | I was introduced to Punch at the age of 12 , grew up on Basil Boothroyd and have relied on my weekly ‘ fix ’ to get me through life 's crises over the past 47 years — including moving house six times , several bereavements , liquidation ( yes , me too ! ! ) , my daughter 's attempted suicide and my recent divorce . |
| 18 | Another lengthy court battle would be a severe embarrassment for Mr Heseltine and prolong the Government 's agony over the mishandled pit closure programme . |
| 19 | The decision to provide free waste collection reflects the government 's concern over the environmental damage caused by the discharges . |
| 20 | The new arrangements also address the government 's concern over the escalating social security bill for residential care , in 1989 running at 1 billion per year . |
| 21 | The government 's calamities over the past 12 months have rocked the Tory faithful . |
| 22 | The Government 's dogma over the National Health Service has turned into panic . |
| 23 | The treatment of training in the construction industry falls into line with the Government 's practices over the past decade . |
| 24 | The Church of Ireland withdrew its schools from the plan which threatened that church 's dominance over the primary sector . |
| 25 | In December the socialists challenged the executive 's control over the budgetary process . |
| 26 | Delegates endorsed wide-ranging changes , including the replacement of the party 's Marxist ideology by a commitment to " democratic socialism " , and plans for the president and legislature to be directly elected by universal secret ballot , and for a revised constitution which would guarantee freedom of expression , permit the formation of political parties , and end the MPLA-PT 's control over the armed forces . |
| 27 | The IMF decided , in 1988 , that the limit to enlarged access would be 440 per cent of a country 's quota over a three-year period . |
| 28 | Number of employees provides a reliable indicator of a company 's performance over the short term . |
| 29 | State medicine 's defeat over the Contagious Diseases Acts effectively heralded the displacement of the medical profession by a new force in sexual politics , with a different conception of the state 's responsibilities in the moral sphere . |
| 30 | By spreading the impactor 's mass over a wide area , fragmentation increases the amount of atmosphere intercepted and so enhances ablation and aerobraking ; hence a fragmenting object stops more abruptly , surrendering its kinetic energy more explosively , than does a non-fragmenting object . |