Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the approach used has considerable advantage in principle over the cruder system used for educational deprivation , since there is an attempt to relate expenditure needs directly to deprivation indicators , rather than adoption of an ad hoc procedure with little justification other than expediency . |
| 2 | They saw similarities with the Malaysian Bumiputra system by which ethnic Malays received preferential treatment in business over their Chinese compatriots . |
| 3 | It is through the implementation of this agreed machinery that disciplinary tribunals and the Inns themselves , with the consent of the Lord Chief Justice , are now able to exercise extended powers of control over the professional conduct of barristers , with a wider range of penalties , but subject always , in the case of decisions by tribunals , to a right of appeal to the visitors : see Disciplinary Tribunal Regulations 1990 , regulations 22 and 30 . |
| 4 | This is a large élite as élites go , conscious of its privileges and its place , and possessing real instruments of power over those who would challenge it . |
| 5 | Deaf education has been associated with a great deal of dogma which has had varying degrees of influence over the years . |
| 6 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 7 | Personality factors also enter into the equation ; some assessors being known in advance to favour certain lines of enquiry over others , or simply to dislike or to mistrust other individual researchers . |
| 8 | Unless working-class children are given linguistic means of control over the disciplines of the curriculum , and situations in the outside world , they are unlikely to stand much chance of being upwardly mobile . |
| 9 | He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . |
| 10 | OUTRAGE : U2 's stars donned anti-radiation suits in protest over Sellafield |
| 11 | Prison officers and civil servants have been taking industrial action in protest over what they claim is a move towards privatisation . |
| 12 | This rather defeats its theoretical purpose of putting different types of loan over different periods of time on to an identical basis for comparison . |
| 13 | The transfer project , conducted between 1953 and 1955 , was designed to establish settlements on the barren islands in order to assist Canadian claims to sovereignty over the region . |
| 14 | So extensive became the control of the catholic sector , both primary and secondary , that priests had extensive powers of dismissal over the teachers until the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Fortunately , we had past members with vision over the years , and from one of these we inherited a considerable legacy which will give us a firm basis for future work ; an investment which can be used frugally when the occasion demands . |
| 16 | that different actors have different degrees of power over the creation of media content . |