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 .
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