Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like to thank the following for their help at WASL over the last few months : . |
| 2 | The judge who jailed both father and son for their outburst in court over the sentencing of the man who killed a member of their family showed no compassion . |
| 3 | Digital has run down sections of its operation in Ireland over the last few years , including the closure of a plant a Clonmel with the loss of 350 jobs . |
| 4 | It says that based on the cost reduction it has achieved in transferring 75% of assembly and test to Bangkok , Thailand , it would transfer the rest of its production to Bangkok over the next six months , enabling further cost reductions and facility consolidations at its San Jose site . |
| 5 | Finally , to the extent that political authority is justified by its ability to co-ordinate the activities of large populations , the vindication of its claim to authority over any one individual may depend on its having legitimate authority over the population at large . |
| 6 | If a third party has harmed the child , therefore , the statutory criteria will only be met if a reasonable parent would have acted to prevent the harm or was unable to do so because of his lack of control over the child . |
| 7 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 8 | Not surprisingly the British achieved little with their request for direct American support in their dispute with Indonesia over Malaysia . |
| 9 | Nor was Washington pleased when the British resorted to their usual tricks in their search for influence over American policy . |
| 10 | The increased availability , from the North Sea and also from the Middle East and Africa , will almost certainly mean a considerable increase in its use throughout Europe over the next decade . |
| 11 | [ For Saudi backing for UAE in its dispute with Iran over control of the Gulf island of Abu Musa see p. 39116 . ] |
| 12 | Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 14 | When in 1862 the general synod of the SEC removed the Scottish communion office from its primacy of authority over the English Book of Common Prayer he took the Episcopal bishops to court , appealing as far as the House of Lords ; he defended his case himself but lost the action in 1867 . |
| 15 | He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding . |
| 16 | The former brigadier Toby Low was continuing his evidence in his action for damages over accusations that he repatriated 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks from Allied-occupied Austria in 1945 , knowing they faced almost certain death . |
| 17 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 18 | and over his preference for Greece over Turkey . |
| 19 | I regret to inform him that , as things stand , he gives the impression that he intends to cling , right reason or none , to his position of power over a people who have consistently told him and his party that they want no part of it . |
| 20 | And Julian Logue , who re-wrote the NI Snooker history books with the 147 maximum at the Bass Open in Coalisland last season , weighed in with 110 on his way to victory over Michael Sweet . |
| 21 | Gary Wolstenholme drew on his wealth of experience over the Hoylake course to give England the all-important point which keeps them on course for a fifth title in a decade . |
| 22 | He informed them of Gen Morgan 's visit to Belgrade two days earlier , and Tito 's refusal to back down on his claim to sovereignty over Venezia Giulia . |
| 23 | Disapproval of the government was compounded by its lack of clarity over plans to rebuild the mosque . |
| 24 | The formal proletariat is defined by its lack of control over both the means of production and the labour of others ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 25 | In the past women 's capacity to give assistance was even more constrained than it is now , by their lack of control over financial resources . |
| 26 | Reports I read in the national press suggest that retail sales are not improving , and that has certainly been borne out by our experience in Scotland over the last few weeks . |