Example sentences of "[noun sg] 's [noun] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After escaping relegation from the National League on Sunday with a 1–0 win over Ealing , the management team want changes made to the club 's infrastructure over the Summer . |
| 2 | So Sinead O'Connor — probably our last remaining real rock star , a maverick , a 1000 per cent attack merchant constantly taking convention by the neck and shaking it the way a terrier shakes a rat , the woman who stormed into the Irish PM 's office over the abortion issue , who refused to sing the US national anthem , who correctly pointed out that George Bush leaves Saddam Hussein standing in the mass-murder stakes , who has exposed her own sad past in vivid , gory detail , whose every record has fully stretched and excited the expectations of her audience — has released a version of Loretta Lynn 's maudlin Country classic . |
| 3 | However it is more difficult getting an opinion about an act 's music over the phone . |
| 4 | Added to this is the perpetual insecurity reserve police suffer as a result of the management 's control over the renewal of their contract : and sergeants are not averse to using this as a threat in parades . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , on the subject of the clash between the normativist and functionalist styles of public law — which emerged in the Franks Committee 's investigations over the question of whether any body responsible for supervising administrative tribunals should be detached from or integrated into the Supreme Courts — the Committee came down firmly in favour of integration . |
| 6 | In this second example a teacher observes the child 's confusion over the invariance of number . |
| 7 | Thus the financial health of the company seemed to be of more importance than the community 's concern over the health of its children . |
| 8 | I loathe Solé Tura , the man responsible for forcing such a decision , who lost not a moment 's sleep over the nightmare of the final decision on ‘ Guernica ’ . |
| 9 | He went on to consider , however , whether the court 's jurisdiction over the question whether the housing authority had provided was only supervisory , or could be challenged in private law proceedings . |
| 10 | BBC-TV 's Treasure Over the Water was a new three part adventure serial for children filmed on location in Cambridge . |
| 11 | Forfeiture , that is the right to end a lease before it determines naturally , is the landlord 's security over the property . |
| 12 | If the situation requires quick action , there being no time to seek higher authority , the receptionist at an inn may detain the guest 's luggage ( not the guest himself or his vehicle ) and exercise the innkeeper 's lien over the guest 's property until the bill is paid in full . |
| 13 | After playing catch-me-if-you-can for so long , it looks as though Sun Microsystems Inc is only going to get a month 's headstart over the pack of Sparc-compatible builders which will be gunning for its superscalar Sparcstation 10 market — if US firm Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , Columbus , Ohio , has its way . |
| 14 | ‘ As for my father 's influence over the boy , I do believe you 're exaggerating , Beth . |
| 15 | But despite its video pictorial qualities , and its much vaunted ‘ personal ’ contact with party leaders , television 's advantage over the press in giving information about leaders was less than its advantage on issue-information . |
| 16 | Personally , I felt that my greengrocer 's excitement over the vegetable content of this story had overpowered his moral judgement , so I binned it . |
| 17 | Consider the simple sentence in commonsense language , ‘ Look out , the wind is blowing the baby 's pram over the cliff edge ! ’ |
| 18 | Conventionalism protects the authority of convention by insisting that conventional practices establish the end as well as the beginning of the past 's power over the present . |
| 19 | But their need for each other was the basis of Rich 's affection for Philip and the source of the older man 's power over the boy who would gratefully take his teacher 's name and put it up in lights half way around the world . |
| 20 | In it he said that man 's control over the world — steam , explosives , atoms and space — has outrun his power over himself to use that command wisely . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For all the Tsar 's power over the army , where domestic affairs are concerned the phrase ‘ absolute monarchy ’ may obscure as much as it reveals . |
| 23 | It was noted that the union 's actin over the redundancy issue should be used as an opportunity to push recruitment . |
| 24 | Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor , suggested that the government 's indecision over the poll tax called into question its ability to govern . |
| 25 | THE first split in the Government 's ranks over the ambulance workers dispute appeared last night when it was disclosed that Mr David Trippier , the Environment Minister , had written to the Health Secretary saying he could see the logic in the ambulance workers ' case . |
| 26 | That conference had floundered largely as a result of the Phnom Penh government 's apprehension over the issue of power sharing and the role of the UN . |
| 27 | JOHN Major presided over a special Downing Street summit of ministers last night to thrash out a solution to the Government 's deadlock over the pit closure programme . |
| 28 | Asserting that there were fundamental flaws in the case for reforming local government , he challenged the Government 's arguments over the need to create councils which would encourage local identity . |
| 29 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 30 | He is saddened that many firms in this position are unwilling to accept an equity stake from outside institutions , on the grounds that this will reduce the firm 's control over the venture . |