Example sentences of "[vb pp] [art] [noun sg] of [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It provides a rather more formal learning structure , and given the price of beer over a session can probably be had at a similar cost . |
| 2 | There never have been any economic or social targets , but given the attitude of government over the first seven years of the LDDC this is hardly surprising . |
| 3 | Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected . |
| 4 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 5 | Furthermore , disagreement over racial desegregation and the policy of bussing revealed a lack of consensus over the social goals that schools were supposed to advance . |
| 6 | Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ? |
| 7 | I have had a lot of pleasure over the years keeping and breeding tropical fish , and cichlids in particular . |
| 8 | She would have had a sort of power over him . |
| 9 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 10 | The wind of God certainly blew on that man , Christian though he already was ; he has not become a paragon of virtue over night , but the manifest change in his disposition and attitudes can not be denied . |
| 11 | Typically this has meant that economic policy has emphasised the primacy of industry over agriculture , investment over consumption and exports over imports . |
| 12 | Although both Beveridge and Bevan had acknowledged the superiority of prevention over cure , the design of the new system ensured that it remained underdeveloped . |
| 13 | By the time the gentry had increased the quantity of land over which they exercised direct control ( and improved its average quality ) , most of them were keen to sell off the rest . |
| 14 | For while the other structural changes altered the range of options open to states and to firms , this one cast a shadow of doubt over which of the available options to choose within the range . |
| 15 | It had temporarily reasserted the ascendancy of painting over other art forms by overshadowing any advances in literature or music . |
| 16 | But it also brought a smile to manager Brian Horton , and I was thrilled to bits for him because he 's taken a lot of stick over recent results . |
| 17 | This was emphasised by those heads of department who had taken a lot of time over their self-appraisal and who claimed that as a consequence other things had had to suffer . |
| 18 | All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years . |
| 19 | Thus RENFE unions achieved a position of influence over the day-to-day organization of railway work comparable to that exerted by the unions in BR . |
| 20 | This would lead to a clearer understanding of the relationships between international organisations , such as the European Community , which have acquired a measure of control over national policy , and the nations themselves . |