Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] ['s] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Having complained on several occasions of the Church 's reticence over taking the moral lead , on this occasion her plea was successful . |
| 3 | to be useful for teachers and parents and children to read as an informative and convincing story of the child 's progress over the years |
| 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 | A gem from Kydonia shows the Master of Animals grasping two lions as they apparently sit upright , just as if he was holding a pair of pups by the scruff of the neck ; the image speaks clearly of the god 's dominion over wild beasts . |
| 6 | Colin McRae , of Scotland , continues his defence of the champion 's crown over four stages in Kielder Forest after winning the opening round in his Subaru in north Wales two weeks ago . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So I strewed the pieces of the Italian 's card over the cobblestones . |
| 9 | However , the determining factor in each case is the extent of the investor 's influence over the invested in the financial and operating policy decisions of a company . |
| 10 | The full extent of the taxpayer 's liability over atomic energy has been flushed into the open because of accounting changes demanded by City analysts in the run-up to next year 's electricity privatisation . |
| 11 | Parkinson and his colleagues pointed out that out of seven regular observers using the Royal Greenwich Observatory 's meridian circle since 1851 , five produced self-consistent observations of the Sun 's diameter over each of their periods as observer . |
| 12 | Using this information it is possible to make a plot of the aircraft 's track over the ground when the necessary calibration and other corrections are made and allowance is made for the effect of wind on the flight path . |
| 13 | The UN Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) has revised upwards its projections of the growth of the world 's population over the next century . |
| 14 | In these two magnificent novels , sea and sky and ships become , as it were , characters themselves , acting as stabilisers in a way for the romantic , poetic colour implied in the titles of the books and constantly correcting what might otherwise be a predictable good-luck formula of a hero 's triumph over great odds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Number of employees provides a reliable indicator of a company 's performance over the short term . |
| 17 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |