Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this makes it unlikely that the alliance ante-dated 440 , when Corinth , for whatever reason , voted against war with Athens over Samos ( p. 46 ) , i.e. when surface relations were still good . |
| 2 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 3 | Guinness rose from 534p to 599p over the two days . |
| 4 | I forgot all about donating and the transfusion service lost track of me as I moved from house to house over the years , until the other day when the subject came up in the office . |
| 5 | An evening with a breeze ; I could see movement in the bracken that edged the track , and cloud-shadows moved from time to time over the sea-pinks . |
| 6 | The stress on mineral extraction has left the settlers ( now almost 10 million as was estimated early in 1982 ) in effect abandoned , and their fate is reported in terms of disputes over land , the sowing of their land with weed seeds from the air and even the poisoning of their drinking water . |
| 7 | The overwhelming impression left after the debate is of a Tory Party spilt from top to toe over Europe , and a Prime Minister unable to heal the rift . |
| 8 | Mr Heddle , aged 48 , was due to appear in court in Spain over a parking dispute while in Benidorm in May . |
| 9 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 10 | I can remember the long cloudless days when we drove for mile after mile over desert that stretched out around us as flatly as an unruffled sea ; the way we would pull the throttle out so that the needle stood up straight at the figure forty , and then would laze back with our legs stretched out across the bonnet … . |
| 11 | Like all primitive peoples they believed in spirits with influence over human life . |
| 12 | Disney has been plagued by difficulties ranging from rows with contractors over construction costs to grumblings by members of the Disney ‘ cast ’ over employment conditions . |
| 13 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop covered himself in glory at yesterday 's European Short Circuit meeting at Kirkistown with victory over Europe 's best in the 125 race . |
| 14 | BALLYMONEY 'S Robert Dunlop covered himself in glory at yesterday 's European Short Circuit meeting at Kirkistown with victory over Europe 's best in the 125 race . |
| 15 | Although it had become easier for some middle-class men ( or their sons ) to earn membership of the national ruling culture by Edwardian times , their status as true " gentlemen " remained equivocal in an atmosphere of continued mistrust of the business community , albeit tempered by outbreaks of anxiety over the volatility of the lower orders which it was felt the task of their middle-class superiors to defuse . |
| 16 | Be-1 , Pao and S-Cargo , made in small volumes and sold in Japan at premiums over the Micra model on which they are based , may not be to everyone 's taste . |
| 17 | The contrast is most marked in the West Midlands , which has seen the percentage of births jump from 8pc to 20pc over the decade . |
| 18 | John Barton , the Islands ' Director of Fisheries , agreed to participate provided that negotiations were limited to technical matters ( such as the conservation of squid stocks ) and did not touch on areas of sovereignty over the Falklands or the resumption of direct links with the Argentinian mainland . |
| 19 | Predictions on the basis of the Met Office model suggest that an additional 400 million people would become at risk from hunger over the next 50 years . |
| 20 | You have to look at quality of earnings over the next decade , not over the next year . |
| 21 | A team at the university 's dermatology department examined all the 1,354 men and 2,459 women diagnosed with melanoma in Scotland over the period . |
| 22 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 23 | I repeat that there is no system that can automatically preclude evil people getting into positions of power over vulnerable people . |
| 24 | Reports in late August said that Germany had increased pressure on its western allies to agree to a ban on short-range nuclear weapons and was locked in conflict with France over its refusal to cancel the Hades short-range nuclear missile programme . |
| 25 | The increasing numbers of colleges approaching the CNAA had to do in part with difficulties over validation by universities — particularly those which were unwilling or reluctant to validate honours degrees — and in part with the attraction of the CNAA as a validating body which could consider a range of courses , including those in the areas of proposed diversification . |
| 26 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |
| 27 | It was common practice for marriage registers to record the places of abode of the newly-weds , and what Kendall did was to use this information to construct a crude measure of dissimilarity between villages based on frequency of intermarriage over a long period . |
| 28 | The shop stewards movement , contrary to the arguments from some quarters , would not necessarily be demobilised in a context of incomes policy , but would be able to use its bargaining strength at enterprise level to insist on measures of control over the broader issues of enterprise policy . |
| 29 | ‘ This has been offset by improvements in areas over which we ourselves have control — partly by improving our cost base , and partly by increasing oil production , ’ he added . |
| 30 | But I mean in terms of knitwear over the last few years I can give you one or two examples which I think you 'll readily er understand . |