Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture . |
| 2 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 3 | There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making . |
| 4 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 5 | In conclusion , we believe that our study avoided the methodological and analytical problems of previous reports , which have given rise to a great deal of controversy over the efficacy of EFA supplementation in AD . |
| 6 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 7 | Witness the attempt to use the impeachment process against Lincoln 's successor , Andrew Johnson ; the defeat of Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the routing of his party in the 1920 election . |
| 8 | They have trained-in a succession of concepts over the years : decision making , then situational leadership , and then contingency theory . |
| 9 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 10 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 11 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |
| 12 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 13 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 14 | Relations improved with South Korea as a result of concessions over the treatment of the Korean minority within Japan , and Japan 's admission of guilt over its past treatment of Korea [ see p. 38623 ] . |
| 15 | Other accusations were the result of disputes over the ownership of animals . |
| 16 | In addition most clubs organise a full programme of races over the season which , once you 've mastered the basics of sailing , can improve your skills very quickly by matching them up with other boats in the fleet . |
| 17 | Sprint has also announced demonstration of videoconferencing over the Internet sponsored by the National Science Foundation . |
| 18 | He also brought to an end , but not without difficulty , the suit which had begun between the archbishop and the chapter of Canterbury over the church of Lambeth , which the same archbishop , against the will of the chapter , had built and endowed with many and substantial rents , instituting canons regular in it — noble men , powerful and educated . |
| 19 | erm usually if it 's just one or two things people are offered the opportunity to submit a piece of work over the summer |
| 20 | ‘ Simon sitting between the twins and Piggy , wiped his mouth and shoved his piece of meat over the rocks to Piggy who grabbed it . |
| 21 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 22 | He had a strong feeling that he wanted to dash back to the Romano-British section and break a piece of statuary over the bastard 's head . |
| 23 | I use a small piece of putty over the nozzle for speed and short-term storage ; but if I 'm not going to be using it for a while , I take the top off and place a small piece of Clingfilm over the bottle , then screw the top back on again . |
| 24 | Lay a piece of paper over the artwork and draw on the actual positions of the components , showing the locations of all pinouts and terminals clearly . |
| 25 | A retired couple have won the right to challenge the Department of Transport over the impact a new bypass could have on their home . |
| 26 | Disappointingly there was little evidence of any change in the condition of attenders over the course of two years from the interviewing of the original sample . |
| 27 | To begin with the government wants private operators to cast a spider 's web of cable-TV over the country , It is n't obvious that this is the best way to go about it . |
| 28 | At the same time were born new heroes and demigods ; the Hollywood dream factory , which had already indelibly stamped the character of both North America and Great Britain by the 1940s , began to spin its web of enticement over the whole of popular culture . |
| 29 | During a debate on a vote of confidence over the government 's handing of the crisis on April 26 , Martens announced that the government intended to propose a " structural change " in the Constitution . |
| 30 | The US Exxon Corporation on March 13 agreed to pay a record sum in settlement of claims over the Exxon Valdez oil spillage off the coast of Alaska in March 1989 [ see pp. 36541 ; 36606 ] . |