Example sentences of "over [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An attempt to contest Japan 's control over Korean foreign policy at the Hague peace Conference in 1907 fell on deaf ears ; whether Korea was , or was not , independent meant little to most of the nations of the West . |
| 2 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 3 | Any sale would include appropriate long-term contracts with Coalite Smokeless Fuels , which supplies Coalite Chemicals with coal oil feedstock , and agreement over future environmental liability for the site ( Chem . |
| 4 | He said : ’ The purpose of the rule is clear : It is the circuit breaker between monetary union and the back-door creation of a United States of Europe' , where a centralised government takes control over domestic public expenditure as the price of a bail-out . |
| 5 | Talks in Moscow on March 15 between the United States Secretary of State James Baker and Soviet President Gorbachev failed to resolve problems over alleged Soviet violation of the terms of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe ( CFE ) signed in November 1990 [ see pp. 37838-39 ] . |
| 6 | It is the shift which has occurred within the population over statutory retirement-pension age towards the oldest old . |
| 7 | What had happened was that , having marched in straight lines over open flat ground for a while , their paths had taken them close to a pebble . |
| 8 | Controversy over proposed open-cast mining in the Lake St Lucia wetlands , Natal [ see ED 67 ] , has been heightened by publication of a South African government environmental impact assessment which concludes that mining would not damage the area 's delicate dune ecosystem . |