Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 2 | That knowledge , handed down by word of mouth over generations is invaluable . |
| 3 | Stories simply handed down by word of mouth over that length of time are likely to be less accurate than those written down from the beginning . |
| 4 | Secondary education , mainly in schools now known as grammar schools , was available nationally for 20% of children over the age of eleven , with pronounced regional variations . |
| 5 | The first point is that Ramsey pricing has advantages both in terms of static efficiency and also arguably in terms of equity over cost-based pricing . |
| 6 | She lay down on the bed intending simply to relax and restore herself , but within minutes she was deeply asleep , her red-gold hair fanning out like tongues of fire over the white pillows . |
| 7 | He used the event to test modifications to his Peugeot 205 GTi , carried out by Autotech of Thirsk over the winter season . |
| 8 | In terms of day-to-day influence over policy or even in terms of control over the executive , its powers are risible . |
| 9 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 10 | They are to maximize the lineage 's accumulation of symbolic capital , and not primarily over principles of power over a whole society . |