Example sentences of "[vb past] no [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have recently returned from the tropical rainforests of South East Asia where the almost negligible cutting down of trees by ‘ native peoples ’ caused no real destruction over millions of years . |
| 2 | Interestingly , the deputies in parliament showed no particular interest over this law and it was passed in a lukewarm atmosphere with very few votes against it and virtually no abstentions . |
| 3 | It has been rightly said that in the thirteenth century the king of France ( unlike the king of England ) possessed no direct control over the whole kingdom : ‘ outside the domain , default alone allowed him to act ’ . |
| 4 | They had no real control over their own lives , and were forced around by men . |
| 5 | But there were real disadvantages attached to foreign borrowing : exchange rates were often unfavourable , interest-rates were high , and the Queen had no political control over her creditors . |
| 6 | But it still suffered from several of the defects of the medieval Exchequer : it was very slow ; it had not the machinery to expand the available sources of revenue ; and it had no effective control over expenditure . |
| 7 | The Assembly , though renamed the ‘ European Parliament ’ in 1962 , had no effective control over the Council or Commission . |
| 8 | I had no personal control over branch funds , but had to bear the brunt of the attack . |
| 9 | Essentially , until the 1980s , central government had no final sanction over an individual local authority 's decision to spend and therefore no way , except persuasion or financial penalties , of achieving its objective . |
| 10 | 4– The inspectors could encourage change but not enforce it — central bodies had no direct power over secondary selection . |
| 11 | a proposed meeting between officers of the Board and the LEA was cancelled as the county council had no clear policy over adult educational provision and the only result of the proposal was confirmation of the LEA 's existing policy of specific grant-aid . |
| 12 | They had no formal control over the staff or the centres ' finances . |
| 13 | Pre-emptive local anaesthetic field block for inguinal herniorrhaphy resulted in reduced pain scores and a delay in requests for analgesia during the six hours studied by Ejlersen et al , but similar work detected no pre-emptive effect over a longer period . |