Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [prep] [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The state was forced to assume some measure of control over distribution of food and levels of profits , and thus intervene in the market . |
| 2 | Effective study does not mean reading twice as fast ( one measure of efficiency ) or writing twice as much in a given time period ( another measure of output over input ) . |
| 3 | Shedding some light on protest over VAT on fuel . |
| 4 | However , most countries still retained some degree of control over capital account transactions , mainly because the volatile nature of capital flows was thought to present potential problems for the stability of their exchange rates . |
| 5 | Such economic transformations tend to undermine both the national independence of Third World countries , and the autonomy of women where this is based on some degree of control over land . |
| 6 | The easiest way to exercise this type of control over index terms is to list or store the acceptable terms in a vocabulary . |
| 7 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 8 | This element of control over entry to the trade was crucial to the prospects of artisan unions . |
| 9 | She delights particularly in this dominance of architecture over furnishing , ‘ a piece of space enclosed simply for the sake of beautiful outline ’ , so that the small dining-table appears as ‘ an odd and insignificant accident ’ . |
| 10 | If you could make a profit of approximately £2,500 per week for the fourteen or so unoccupied weeks ( a big if ! ) you would turn that excess of expenditure over income into an income surplus . |
| 11 | Many areas of disagreement over policy and philosophy exist both within and between organisations although , broadly speaking , opponents in the debate fall into two camps . |
| 12 | ‘ How near is madness to genius ’ , said Diderot ; while Dr Johnson , confessing that he himself had often been nearly insane , commented that ‘ all power of fancy over reason is a degree of madness ’ . |
| 13 | This information may help to give an impression of the severity of the child 's difficulties , with respect to the areas of language sampled in the test , and an indication of any change in performance over time . |
| 14 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 15 | After several days of confusion over Labour 's plans over future privatisation , Mr Smith confirmed that an incoming Labour government will not have the benefit of an extra £9.5 billion which the Conservatives had planned to raise through the disposal of the Government 's remaining holdings in former public utilities . |
| 16 | There were several attacks on women over Christmas . |
| 17 | When we think about those questions of individ individuation in our normal affairs , the best we can do is to say that what individuates us and also what makes us the same person through changes over time , is a great medley of factors , some of which are bodily , some of which involve our souls |