Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE CANADIAN government has made a complete about-face over the regulation of private satellite-TV dishes . |
| 2 | It makes us feel that Saint Francis had every other possible advantage over the tramp despite that lifestyle that he led . |
| 3 | Late in life , having transferred his affections to the alsatian , Queenie , he became a professional bore over the superiority of animals to human beings , an obsession that led almost to derangement on the occasions when Queenie was cut by broken glass . |
| 4 | The archaeology of mining reveals a historic struggle over the sex of miners . |
| 5 | The panoramic vista over the Thames to Westminster is breathtaking.As I sit , gazing at the glossy art books carefully laid out before me , I become aware of a clipped , militaristic voice behind me . |
| 6 | There can not be and there should not be any attempt to open up a party political divide over the importance of further reducing tobacco consumption . |
| 7 | Nor is there any serious basis on which it can be argued that there is a party political divide over the particular of reducing tobacco consumption among children . |
| 8 | Frederica gagged on hers , nauseated by a memory of the foundering black body as the life left the legs , of the crawling sheet of sticky blood over the shoulder under the pics , of trailing hooves and horns dragged over sawdust . |
| 9 | ‘ HAVE been sweating blood over the question of what is right and feasible to do . |
| 10 | It can be that magic moment in such dances as the Rose Adage in The Sleeping Beauty when Aurora triumphantly raises her hand from the fourth Prince 's grasp and holds the final attitude for several seconds revealing her complete command over the forces of gravity . |
| 11 | Society , then , is not to be understood in terms of a simple hierarchy , but as a continual struggle over the hierarchy of hier-archies ; that is , whether , in this case , that of wealth should prevail over that of knowledge . |
| 12 | This type of case requires a long-term treatment plan using multi-disciplinary resources and requires careful monitoring over the course of many months or perhaps years if the child is to stay with the family . |
| 13 | I have therefore grouped them on a broad geological basis : sand , chalk , clay , and the gravels and loams of the coastal plain which probably also enjoys a modest climatic advantage over the rest of the county . |
| 14 | The Trust will on occasion be faced with a Wordsworthian dilemma over the degree to which it should promote some of its more sensitive properties , but the commitment to providing welcoming access for its members and visitors is an unwavering one . |
| 15 | FOUR people were yesterday sent for trial at the Old Bailey over the deaths of bank clerk Alison Manwaring and her father Matthew at their home in Barking , east London . |
| 16 | The prince 's remarks follow massive public anxiety over the Duchess of York 's jetsetting antics at the taxpayers ' expense . |
| 17 | A poll conducted by the European Commission has revealed widespread public anxiety over the implications of biotechnology . |
| 18 | If you 've never seen the Tan Hill on a bleary winter 's day when winds are driving wet sleet over the hellhole of Sleightholme Moor and the sky and the land are welded together in one sullen , sodden grey , then you 've missed a treat . |
| 19 | His enforced retirement followed a public outcry over the leniency of his treatment in connection with the receipt of illegal payments from Tokyo Sagawa Kyubin , the largest regional affiliate in the Kyoto-based Sagawa Kyubin group , Japan 's second-largest parcel delivery firm . |
| 20 | The émigrés , ranging from monarchists to anarchists , were of course bitterly divided and carried on a fierce polemical battle over the responsibility for their common defeat . |
| 21 | Governments have a direct influence over the process of national income determination through their control over the flows of public expenditure G and taxation T . |
| 22 | Most engineers will have little direct influence over the form of their organisation 's risk management programme . |
| 23 | To play the game , children run the hand-held electronic device over the barcode of any product . |
| 24 | It is likely , particularly if one allows for the gaps in the 1474–75 returns , that the period when London secured its massive commercial lead over the rest of the country was the last quarter of the fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | LABOUR achieved a clear lead over the Conservatives in local council by-elections held during the conference season , according to an analysis by The Independent . |
| 26 | The Soviet Union 's clear lead over the USA in manned , especially long duration , space flights on the Mir space station , the ninth of which began on May 18 , 1991 , was increasingly being set against the scientific value of cheaper unmanned space probes , even though these were also subject to financial cutbacks . |
| 27 | These two novels are rich in originality and credulity , and as such , I think , should be included in the library of any literate person over the age of fourteen . |
| 28 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 29 | There must also be a place for ‘ commodity-money relations ’ , or in other words the market , which was an ‘ irreplaceable means for the flexible economic coordination of production with growing and constantly changing public requirements and an important instrument of public control over the quality of goods and the costs of their production ’ . |
| 30 | The multiplier process would apply to additional investment expenditures also , but with both exports and investment expenditures the government has little direct control over the size of these flows . |