Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun pl] over [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Protests are being staged by farmers and environmentalists in India and the UK to highlight the threat to native plants by Western companies seeking patents over traditional plant extracts . |
| 2 | But his successor , Corazon Aquino , has ruled that out , citing concerns over national security . |
| 3 | If you are fixing battens over existing rendering make sure they are long enough to give adequate penetration into the brickwork or blockwork beneath . |
| 4 | However , he could also be a tiresome prankster and thus often more of a hindrance than a help about the house — Briggs tells of practical jokes such as ‘ blowing ashes over shelled oats spread out to dry ’ ( from The Fairies in Tradition and Literature ) . |
| 5 | In fact it provided the industry with more control over its environment by making conflicts over environmental damage an administrative problem whose outcome could be predicted by corporate executives . |