Example sentences of "of [noun sg] over [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It 's the thin covering of snow over sheet ice that 's the real killer , and slithering about on that without crampons is like driving at 100 mph on the wrong side of the M8 with your eyes closed . |
2 | The Welsh Office has been accused of complacency over food poisoning outbreaks in a damning new report by an all-Party Commons committee . |
3 | Powell drafted a letter to Branson , laying out his areas of disagreement over company policy and raising the consideration of whether they should go forward together . |
4 | Recent evidence ( Johnstone et al. 1980 ) suggests that the superiority of ECT over placebo treatment might be short-lived , but supports its use for immediate relief of symptoms . |
5 | Moreover , one important advantage of Raman over IR spectroscopy is that water has very weak Raman scattering , and vibrational spectra of aqueous solutions are almost always studied most readily using Raman techniques . |
6 | Help groups warn of crisis over fuel tax |
7 | Banning of newspaper over abortion advertisement |
8 | They allocated to 66 student volunteers the roles of foremen and workers at an assembly plant , with a scenario of conflict over job rotation schemes . |
9 | Much has been made of the importance of the 1919 and 1932 Acts in establishing a nationwide system of supervision over building development , based on local authority scheme preparation and the twin sanctions of by-law and planning control . |
10 | However , most countries still retained some degree of control over capital account transactions , mainly because the volatile nature of capital flows was thought to present potential problems for the stability of their exchange rates . |
11 | The Orbital 's two-phase ( air blast ) direct injection fuelling system , which adds a finely atomised fuel charge to the cylinder only after the exhaust port has been covered , eliminates the economy and emissions problems of old while providing a high degree of control over charge stratification . |
12 | Did he also draw attention to the total inadequacy of control over pension fund investments and procedures ? |
13 | In a time of rising inflation this had the potential of depriving the government of control over cash expenditure . |
14 | Some have a macro-perspective : the national-international dimension of control over health care . |
15 | The foregoing claims about the priority of theory over observation run counter to an inductivist thesis that the meanings of many basic concepts are acquired through observation . |
16 | The only significant differences were in favour of placebo over efamol marine for responses of erythema ( p=0.04 ) and cracking ( p=0.05 ) . |
17 | Discussions of local government reorganisation in Wales were not conducted in an atmosphere of concern over population growth — quite the contrary . |
18 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
19 | Mr Fallon , the Schools Minister , hopes he has finally ended months of controversy over Government funding of building work at St Bede 's and St Augustine 's RC primary schools . |
20 | Walton by-election — Imprisonment of MP over poll tax |
21 | Arrest of minister over coup plot |
22 | Tory MPs on the brink of rebellion over Council Tax |
23 | Thus the government abandoned its earlier proposal to transfer to the new private sector companies the powers of regulation over river basin management , previously exercised by the water authorities . |
24 | Since capital is divided between different sectors ( monopoly , non-monopoly , productive , commercial , financial and merchant ) , and because the state itself is a complex ensemble of different agencies responding to these divisions and the class struggle , there is bound to be conflict of interest over state policy . |
25 | The locus of power over village decision-making has therefore receded from the Big House to County Hall and on , in many cases , to Whitehall . |