Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Disapproval of the government was compounded by its lack of clarity over plans to rebuild the mosque . |
| 8 | The formal proletariat is defined by its lack of control over both the means of production and the labour of others ( Portes 1985 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |