Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] by [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conference had been accepted reluctantly by the government following a succession of crippling strikes in 1990 , and its early meetings were marred by disputes over representation . |
| 2 | They were gripped by anxiety over the fate of European Jewry . |
| 3 | There is no surviving evidence comparable to the parish records of the seventeenth century which shows the rate of change among village inhabitants over short periods , but certainly , as we have seen ( Ch.2 ) , families died out and were replaced by others over the course of the century . |
| 4 | The Party 's formative years were marked by controversy over its relations with the Labour Party , over its internal reorganization along " Bolshevik " lines , over its attitudes towards parliamentary democracy , but not significantly over its allegiance to the Communist International and the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | For much of the 1950s relations with South Korea were bedevilled by conflict over the territorial waters of the two countries . |
| 6 | Amanda 's grief for her father was compounded by anxiety over his ontological status . |
| 7 | This feeling was compounded by confusion over the respective roles and functions of the Department of Employment , the Department of Health and Social Security , the Manpower Services Commission , the ‘ dole ’ , unemployment benefit offices , employment offices and Jobcentres . |
| 8 | The meeting , reportedly called at the instigation of Japan , was dominated by concern over the recent advance of the US dollar which , according to the Financial Times of June 24 , had risen by up to 20 per cent against the German deutschmark and other currencies in recent weeks [ see pp. 37978 ; 38170 ] . |
| 9 | Lee 's inauguration ceremony was marred by protests over his unexpected nomination on May 2 of a former senior general , Hau Pei-tsun , as Premier . |
| 10 | The demand from Labour was sparked by fury over plans to bring back charges for customers in credit . |
| 11 | The session was marked by controversy over tuna and , especially , over the retention of the global ban on trade in ivory . |
| 12 | SIX months ago , the Tory party was riven by disagreements over Europe . |
| 13 | The Pope 's decision was influenced by events over the past year . |
| 14 | At the same time the Bakufu 's weakness was exacerbated by problems over the shogunal succession ; the selection of the nearest blood heir , a young boy , to succeed to the title in 1858 , highlighted the problems of Bakufu leadership at a time when the institution required all the strength it could muster . |
| 15 | The potential instability of the this position was heightened by uncertainty over how the eventual losers would respond to defeat . |
| 16 | The pre-war debate was motivated by concern over the ‘ boy labour problem ’ in its social and economic contexts . |
| 17 | On the contrary , the sadness was outweighed by anger over the deprivations that had presented the emergence of black Pollocks and Procters for 200 years in South Africa — deprivations that were now being remedied mainly because of the success of the long boycott . |