Example sentences of "[verb] a [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 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 Congress exercises a degree of control over the General People 's Committee , which is broadly equivalent to a Council of Ministers or Cabinet . |
| 4 | The secondary ( vertical ) line is used to fire the shutter and also exercises a measure of control over the kite train . |
| 5 | As a result of the ‘ legal ’ relationships involved between LEA , governing body and headteacher , the head reserves a right of veto over management-board decisions . |
| 6 | Team owner Frank Williams — the man who ultimately gave newly-crowned Mansell his chance of glory — was last night keeping a veil of secrecy over the identity of Mansell 's replacement . |
| 7 | The modern way is to meet a group of patients over a party-type meal and discuss how to cope with the problems that may arise . |
| 8 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 9 | Yet de Gaulle had given the Community a shock and under the ‘ Luxembourg Compromise ’ he retained a power of veto over future important decisions . |
| 10 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
| 11 | BRITISH Petroleum and Jet cut the price of petrol by up to 13.5p a gallon — 3p a litre — yesterday , ending a run of increases over recent months . |
| 12 | A punch would be delivered and Ricky , thinking this had ended the row would take himself off to bed only to find the next minute that Minton was emptying a bottle of water over him . |
| 13 | However , this extension of the welfare state was double-edged , because as well as offering services it also involved a measure of control over those who were the recipients of those services . |
| 14 | This enthusiasm , inspired by Scottish sections , was short lived , and nothing came of the move , but it did signal a phase of agitation over representation that was to culminate in formal acceptance of the principle at the 1917 Congress . |
| 15 | Then , place a sheet of glass over the design and trace the outlines on to the stiff card that you will be using for your stencil pattern . |
| 16 | Continue in this way until all the seaweed has been prepared , then cover each piece with a clean sheet of blotting paper and place a couple of newspapers over the top . |
| 17 | Place a slice of avocado over each slice of grapefruit and arrange attractively in lines down a serving plate . |
| 18 | Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground , occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical |
| 19 | It also has a couple of sockets over the ears where you can plug in what is to all effects a stethoscope . ’ |
| 20 | In both craft and continuous-flow production the worker has a sense of control over the work process , claims Blauner . |
| 21 | Unlike France , however , the parliament is not constitutionally supine ; indeed it has a degree of control over policy which some might envy , although this is more a result of governmental weakness than anything else . |
| 22 | Ah , so the the child 's mind is uncluttered , it 's more easily able to erm , observe things , take in things , learn things , and has a lot of advantages over us older , us adults . |
| 23 | It will be noticed that the personal sector has a surplus of receipts over expenditure of £500 million , the public sector has a deficit of £1,500 million , the external sector has a surplus amounting to £1,000 million , and the industrial and commercial sector is in balance . |
| 24 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 25 | Trial work suggests that the technique has a number of advantages over other forms of injection . |
| 26 | An alternative approach which has a number of advantages over linear control systems , is the switching regulator , or as it is more usually known , the ‘ switch-mode power supply ’ . |
| 27 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 28 | Special thesaurus software has a number of advantages over the alternative , which is usually the use of a database package or a word processing package to store terms . |
| 29 | The most promising of these techniques , the polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) has a number of advantages over more conventional methods . |
| 30 | The non-professional also has a number of advantages over professional services . |