Example sentences of "[noun pl] of a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hamstring pull which put Lydon out of the Test series was sustained in the closing minutes of a 50-4 win over Chorley . |
| 2 | Conceptions of a better world over which Christ would reign for a thousand years ( the millennium ) were later secularized to yield visions of a purely earthly utopia , in which a perfect human society might be possible in the absence of coercive measures . |
| 3 | Local authorities are to be held accountable for the effects of a financial system over which they will have even less control than the councils in England and Scotland . |
| 4 | The advantages of a small company over a large one is a matter of swings and roundabouts . |
| 5 | Various experiments of a similar nature over several years demonstrated the same phenomenon over much greater distances . |
| 6 | But it is clear , too , that social classes have been one of the fundamental elements in political conflict in many other types of society ; that slave rebellions , peasant revolts and the bourgeois revolutions were so many instances of a continuous struggle over the control of the labour process and the appropriation of the products of labour . |
| 7 | Buckingham Palace distanced itself from claims of a constitutional row over Dr Runcie 's remarks about Papal primacy and the Anglican Church . |
| 8 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |