Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Political influence : that is , the ability of one group to dominate others , or to have preponderant influence over decision-making , or to benefit advantageously from decisions . |
| 2 | Specifying ANDF alongside standards such as X/Open and GOSIP would allow users to fulfill their hardware and software requirements and gain greater leverage over suppliers in procurement deals , says Robertson . |
| 3 | And as she could n't decide what to do for curtains , she used white roller blinds and swathed white lace over curtain poles . |
| 4 | Much more significant were the conflicting claims of medical expert and lay civil servant over control of social policy , and the shifting relation between politician and bureaucrat in the nineteenth-century state . |
| 5 | She is suing a hunter who chased wild boar on to her land and taking legal action over articles about her love life with Bernard , a close friend of extreme right-wing politician Jean-Marie le Pen . |
| 6 | He has a large number of good qualities and very few bad ones ; George is very kind and caring and took great care over Lennie . |
| 7 | ‘ We will build a partnership with tenants so that they can be represented on housing committees and housing association management committees and have greater influence over repairs and services and the local management of their own estates . ’ |
| 8 | This provides an added potential benefit to traffic travelling along the main routes by reducing the number of locations where this is in conflict with turning traffic , but provides little control over speeds once traffic has penetrated the residential area . |