Example sentences of "the [noun] [unc] [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a handy visual rundown of rock'n'roll heritage , as a gallery of photographic brilliance , or as an ordnance survey map of the NME 's changing landscape over 40 years , the covers provide a rich and colourful parade of faces , fads , guitars , deserts , baseball caps , and people 's backs . |
| 2 | Rex who is assisted by his wife Cath , matched the winner 's increased margin over concentrate and recorded a 1p per litre improvement in the margin over concentrate . |
| 3 | Saddam 's linkage of the Kuwait issue with other regional problems was greeted with enthusiasm by many Arabs , who contrasted the West 's belligerent attitude over the current crisis with its virtual acceptance of Israel 's long-term occupation of Arab lands . |
| 4 | They may be intimidated by the president 's apparent command over public opinion — a position he may seek to reinforce by using television , radio and public speaking in general . |
| 5 | The reason for the resolution is the club 's simmering anger over an incident last season , when the match at Swindon was abandoned after 61 minutes due to a floodlights failure , with Tranmere leading 2–1 . |
| 6 | The horse 's muscular control over its top lip is very precise , which is why the top lip can do so much and reveal so much : it can function like a thumbless hand , and sort and select preferred plants in the horse 's pasture , as well as reveal unrelated emotions with such dissimilar faces as those of anxiety and the Flehman posture . |
| 7 | It is the vapour tank that is the key to the machine 's alleged superiority over other steam irons . |
| 8 | The two accountants fined £1,000 each by the Institute 's Disciplinary Committee over conflicts of interest in the administration of Polly Peck International , will not appeal against the ruling . |
| 9 | The Financial Times of July 28 described it as " the most significant example yet of the Community 's growing influence over national fiscal policy " . |
| 10 | He was to express the presbytery 's grave concern over certain aspects of the handling of these cases and press for an urgent review of procedure in suspected child abuse cases . |
| 11 | In saying that the power exists we were doing no more than to reaffirm the unlimited nature of the court 's inherent jurisdiction over minors , a jurisdiction which empowers and may require the court to override the wishes of a minor , even if he or she has sufficient understanding to make an informed decision . |
| 12 | If the manager runs a sales team where everyone has the job title ‘ sales executive ’ , then that manager can only manage effectively when his or her team have regard for the manager 's active status over and above his or her overt status . |
| 13 | They are indicative of the government 's shaky hold over grass-roots politics . |
| 14 | The state 's ultimate authority over broadcasting exemplifies one of the deficiencies of public service broadcasting , though , paradoxically , John Reith , the BBC 's first managing director/director general , would not have been able to develop the BBC as he did had he not had the full support of the state . |
| 15 | For example , autonomous grass roots organization at the workplace was officially tolerated at certain times , despite continuing repression , and the introduction of collective bargaining from the 1960s , particularly in the modern , foreign-controlled sectors of manufacturing , loosened the state 's tight control over the regulation of labour . |
| 16 | The changes that occurred in the City 's international role over the 1960s and '70s are explained and discussed in J. Coakley and L. Harris , The City of Capital ( Oxford , Basil Blackwell ; 1983 ) ; the international role of the City over a longer period is discussed in depth in L. Harris , T. Evans , J. Coakley and M. Croasdale , New Directions in the Financial System ( London , Croom Helm ; 1988 ) . |
| 17 | Fama also tested for changes in the model 's explanatory power over time . |
| 18 | They 'd conspired , with a hired hitman , to push the couple 's burning car over a cliff at Barrow Wake near Gloucester . |
| 19 | Its present priority was to double the country 's economic power over the next decade . |
| 20 | Bunzl , the parent company of Jarrow-based Filtrona , has agreed to donate a further £25,000 to The Newcastle Initiative 's Cruddas Park project bring the company 's total contribution over three years to £75,000 . |
| 21 | After the operation has been completed the anaesthetic will be reversed and the patient 's normal control over respiration re-established . |
| 22 | The fact that the consultative process described serves to enhance , rather than hinder , the task of school management is borne out by the school 's successful introduction over the last few years of development planning . |
| 23 | They 're at the family 's main estate over Maidenhead way . |
| 24 | By contrast , the Conservative party was very active in the villages , establishing Associations for both men and women and thereby consolidating the party 's general hold over the area despite the changed socio-economic context . |
| 25 | So much for the son 's manic triumph over the phallic mother symbolized by the arrogant domination and tree-felling exploits of Gilgamesh or the Amazon-slaying of the Greek heroes ; but what of the homosexual element in the situation to which I alluded earlier ? |
| 26 | It explained the pope 's temporal power over the city of Rome and the surrounding areas . |