Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They wanted to restore , to some small extent , the House 's powers to scrutinize and , on occasion , to resist the executive over items of legislation , finance and general policy but their attitude was greeted with genuine surprise by many older members and by others in their own ‘ intake ’ . |
| 2 | The US negotiators had been due to meet their EC counterparts in Brussels to discuss the dispute over bids for EC utility contracts . |
| 3 | IT IS impossible to understand the Victorian age without understanding why Darwin 's theory of the origin of species was so disturbing ; and perhaps it is equally impossible to understand the argument over evolution without learning why it was so fiercely resisted , by scientists as well as laymen . |
| 4 | A special declaration reflecting the meeting 's key concern , adopted on July 22 , urged all countries involved to settle the dispute over claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea " in a peaceful manner " . |
| 5 | Describing diplomacy as a " continuation of war with other weapons " , President Menem of Argentina on Jan. 3 appealed to the United Kingdom to settle the dispute over sovereignty of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands through international arbitration , along the lines of the border dispute being resolved between Argentina and Chile . |
| 6 | To present the debate over time-scale as a ‘ widening v. deepening ’ debate is something of an oversimplification . |