Example sentences of "their [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest Confederation of British Industry survey of manufacturing companies shows that more than six times as many companies expect to maintain or increase their investment in training over the next year than expect to reduce it . |
| 2 | This similarity suggests a relationship between a person 's position in the organizational structure and their scope of influence over the design . |
| 3 | There were , however , important differences : there was always a king , or claimant king , of Macedon ; but there was not always a tagos of Thessaly ( their word for ruler over the four great districts or tetrarchies of Thessaly . ) . |
| 4 | The judge who jailed both father and son for their outburst in court over the sentencing of the man who killed a member of their family showed no compassion . |
| 5 | Both leaders agreed to submit their dispute over sovereignty over the 1,000-km Aouzou territorial strip , seized by Libya in 1973 , to the adjudication of the International Court of Justice at The Hague , as stipulated in the " Algiers Accord " signed by both sides in August 1989 [ see p. 36841 ] . |