Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government 's pursuit of mass home ownership , and its liberalisation of controls over private sector development , have encouraged a building boom which represents a serious threat to the countryside . |
| 2 | Specific topics of interest are the impact of collective agreements on pay in Northern Ireland , and the composition of the workforce ( ie occupation/industry/sex/part-time or full-time nature of the workforce ) and its effect on pay over time . |
| 3 | Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates . |
| 4 | The precipitants to these outbursts were trivial and she was alarmed at both the extent of her anger and her lack of control over it . |
| 5 | The ancient streets could perhaps have been left to enforce their own low driving speeds through their narrowness , their cobbled surfaces and their lack of visibility over anything more than a few metres . |
| 6 | This similarity suggests a relationship between a person 's position in the organizational structure and their scope of influence over the design . |
| 7 | One of the most useful studies of the role of life events and difficulties in depression has been conducted by George Brown and Tirril Harris and their colleagues in London over the last fifteen years . |
| 8 | Their toisech would greet them , in his cone helmet with its metal nose-guard and his tunic of ring-mail over leather , and would lead them to the wing of the army commanded by my lord Ferteth , their Mormaer , and my lord Gillecrist , the Mormaer for Lennox and Strathclyde . |