Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | That surely gives British Coal a distinct advantage over importers in negotiations . |
| 2 | Their majority gave Unionist MPs a virtual veto over policies and appointments in the long run , but their junior position in government prevented any more positive control . |
| 3 | According to US press reports on May 18 , President George Bush had the previous week overruled the wishes of the Environmental Protection Agency and given industry a major concession over the implementation of the Clean Air Act as amended in November 1990 [ see p. 37847 ] . |
| 4 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 5 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |