Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the time of the re-establishment of Serbian rule over Kosovo in 1878 , the Albanian population of the province was persecuted , and throughout the interwar period their hostility to Serbian rule continued to mount . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the German fighter pilots were making their own claims ; Lt.Willi Kothmann of I/JG 27 claimed one Hurricane at 1700 ( probably Ayre ) , the only claim to be made by pilots of this unit over Malta during 1941. 7/JG 26 then arrived and Fw . |
| 3 | The move is the first official admission of serious concern over adequacy of anti-fire measures in royal buildings . |
| 4 | The government ended seven years of legal wrangling over compensation by announcing on June 21 that it had fixed payments for relatives of those killed and injured in the Bhopal gas disaster of December 1984 [ see pp. 33647-48 ] . |
| 5 | The decision , taken after the arrival of a shipment of electric transformers for decontamination at a factory in Saint-Vulbas , was taken against a background of growing concern over imports of hospital waste from Germany [ see p. 39073 ] . |
| 6 | Lord Wilberforce has insisted that ‘ [ t ] here is no appeal on merits from management decisions to courts of law : nor will the courts of law assume to act as a kind of supervisory board over decisions within the powers of management honestly arrived at ’ . |
| 7 | The minimum of diplomatic finger-pointing over Holly in return for the homecoming of the major operative that was Demyonov . |
| 8 | The issue of judicial control over juries with a view to pre-empting decisions of fact , however , is neutral as between objectivist and subjectivist approaches to mistake . |
| 9 | Furthermore , patency studies provide inconsistent evidence of efficacy , and no trial has shown a benefit of intravenous heparin over aspirin in adequate doses . |
| 10 | The FA is taking no action against either club over incidents in the ground . |
| 11 | The biologised vocabulary of this description is part of the explanation for increased concern over wastage of talent . |
| 12 | A warrior in the service of Cesare Borgia , he was stabbed to death in 1501 in a quarrel with another man over possession of a fancy Spanish shirt . |
| 13 | A rare opportunity to purchase a character freehold detached residence offering excellent family accommodation and enjoying a beautiful position with open outlook over parkland at front |
| 14 | Mini-bus services have been experimented with in a number of areas , although the savings over larger buses are not always felt to be great and , frequently , mini-buses will be too small to cope with maximum demand over part of the route ( Dobbs 1979 ) . |
| 15 | In bitter scrapping over Douaumont on May 24th , Thaw shot down a Fokker and then went back in the evening for more , but was cornered by three enemy planes . |
| 16 | It seems , once again , that Sussex are the last in the queue , yet not the least indelible of the summer 's memories will be Franklyn Stephenson 's contribution to that win over Durham at Horsham . |
| 17 | However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens . |
| 18 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 19 | His own rise to fame at club level had demonstrated the superiority of management by one man over management by a group , but the England team was still selected by a dozen officials ‘ expressing their views as to the merits of players without proper regard to blend and balance ’ . |
| 20 | However , power is not merely exercised in a simple manner by the state or by one class over others via punishment and other mechanisms , but is a ubiquitous and many-sided phenomenon ; there exists a ‘ multi-plicity of power relations ’ in society which are the constant focus of negotiation and struggle . |