Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [verb] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called on parliament yesterday to sack its chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , while Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of playing games over the fate of Russia . |
| 2 | This is a vital part of retaining control over the finances of the business . |
| 3 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |
| 4 | One general problem of socialism is to find a satisfactory mode of institutionalising conflict over the allocation of resources within the context of planning , and minimising the antagonisms it could generate . |
| 5 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 6 | Alarmed by the sense of losing control over the sprawling Empire , the government moved further and further away from the spirit of the ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 8 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |