Example sentences of "[verb] for [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE RUSSIAN and Ukrainian Presidents struggling for power over the Black Sea Fleet may be pleasing their nationalist countrymen , but the sailors at the fleet 's Crimean headquarters feel only shame and humiliation at the spectacle of a historic navy in chaos . |
| 2 | ‘ I believe that if the Institute were to make one of its inspections , it would not find anything to give them cause for concern over the way in which we have conducted our professional work , ’ Ms Harris says . |
| 3 | In subsequent decades the Prussians and Austrians struggled for supremacy over the German soul . |
| 4 | TOUGH new sanctions are being planned by the UN to force Libya to surrender the two men wanted for trial over the Lockerbie bombing . |
| 5 | There was a case recently in Anglia er Anglia Water Cambridge Water Company sued a leather works for solvent over the years , to pollute the aquifer . |