Example sentences of "exercise a [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet .
2 The Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet .
3 The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train .
4 Even the French language seems to exercise a kind of ownership over the terminology of experiment .
5 It was clear that she saw the drift of his question but her answer was simple : ‘ Granny seemed to exercise a sort of spell over her sons , her husband too , I think .
6 The heads identified as JYM thus exercise a form of control over the process of viewing and apprehension which is normally denied to portraiture .
7 It can be seen that there is a wide range of statutory and semi-public bodies exercising a variety of controls over development in particular areas of the countryside .
8 Scott J concluded that if D 's enjoyment of Greenland was interrupted by B exercising a right of way over Greenland , D could enforce the covenant for quiet enjoyment against L1 , even though there was neither privity of contract nor privity of estate between D and L1 .
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