Example sentences of "over [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was amongst those who defaulted over payment of the forced loan at Northampton in 1627 . |
| 2 | Mr Begg called on anyone experiencing genuine hardship over payment of poll tax arrears to contact the council . |
| 3 | 102 , here attributed to Willem Drost ) , the first depicting the artist 's sick wife Saskia , the second previously thought to be of his son Titus , Mr Royalton-Kisch felt that emotional attachment to the supposed subject matter had clouded judgement over attribution of drawings such as these . |
| 4 | But no one newspaper was singled out for criticism over coverage of the tour . |
| 5 | Fixed-term stock did imply that the national debt would have to be repaid , one day , but for most of the eighteenth century control of the cost took priority over reduction of the principal . |
| 6 | Other , non-Quaker , abolitionists had experience of lobbying as a technique in the 1780s — in the cases of Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Walker over protection of commercial and industrial interests . |
| 7 | Rivalry over election of presidential candidate |
| 8 | Reliability in supplies : It is likely that a firm has greater control over reliability of supplies if it makes a component rather than buying it in from another firm . |
| 9 | The council had recently authorised an adjoining owner to construct and pave an access way over part of the road verge . |
| 10 | Third round P — again beats gong , rushes at B — puts B's head over the rope and then lifts middle rope over part of his neck . |
| 11 | Hence , over this section , it was not necessary to remove the existing ceiling , but a desire to emphasise the still lofty volume of this room caused the client to request the insertion of a ‘ minstrel 's gallery ’ upper level over part of this area . |
| 12 | The CMR further provided that where the vehicle containing the goods is carried over part of the journey by sea , rail , inland waterways or air , and , except in cases of emergency , the goods are not unloaded from the vehicle , the CMR shall nevertheless apply to the whole of the carriage . |
| 13 | Supermarkets and libraries too are usually willing to give over part of their foyer for a limited time for exhibitions of children 's work . |
| 14 | But I found a pretty deep hole where an extremely thick weedbed forms a roof over part of it . |
| 15 | In summer trains run through the Country Park over part of an original ironstone quarry railway . |
| 16 | There is a range of potential responses : the delimitation may be respected and acted upon , for example through application for mining licences to either A or B according to the terms of the agreement ; other States might tacitly acquiesce in the delimitation ; others might make a formal protest that it conflicts with a legal interest of their own , for example , claims of sovereign rights over part of the same area . |
| 17 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 18 | A major lawsuit arose over part of the mineral area jointly owned by Bayly and by a lesser gentry family , whose entail devolved on the Revd Edward Hughes 's infant son ( later first Baron Dinorben ) . |
| 19 | By the side of Gray 's Inn Buildings , which led on up the Avenue , some tall green wooden hoardings jutted out over part of the street and pavement , shielding some roadworks . |
| 20 | At Woodchester in Gloucestershire the church sits over part of , and in the same alignment as , the vast Roman palace there . |
| 21 | Third , one small competitor — Mercury , a subsidiary of Cable and Wireless — was licensed to compete over part of BT 's activities . |
| 22 | Over part of its range , however , the butterfly graph develops a pocket providing a stable intermediate surface in the shape of a butterfly . |
| 23 | No harrying is recorded for 992 , although a victory over part of the English navy is , and in 993 there were raids around the mouth of the Humber , and Bamburgh on the Northumbrian coast was sacked . |
| 24 | Cnut 's supremacy over part of Sweden may be obscure ; it need not have been ineffective . |
| 25 | If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen . |
| 26 | Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) . |
| 27 | Controversy over purchase of US and French fighter jets |
| 28 | C.4 where there is a corresponding surplus arising from some other matter — e.g. over provision of liabilities ( swings and roundabouts ) ; |
| 29 | Mr David Gee , director designate of Friends of the Earth , said the bill had already been weakened by giving big concessions to industry , especially over freedom of information to the public and scope and timetable of the new controls over pollution . |
| 30 | Controversy over exposure of collaborators |