Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun] for [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 2 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 3 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 4 | Likewise the excess rate for males over females , for town dwellers over country dwellers , for social class V over social class I , all of which coincide with smoking differences , can be explained by other means . |
| 5 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 6 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 7 | Instead , table 5.2 illustrates the proportions of dwellings affected ( for example , unfit ) in each area and relates this to the average for the given year for stock over all areas . |
| 8 | He provides a polythetic perspective on social position , exhibiting the structuralist preference for relationships over entities , so that all social attributes are understood primarily in terms of their co-variant properties . |
| 9 | Further , at the ‘ macroeconomic ’ level , the fiscal and monetary management of aggregate demand gradually displaced physical planning as the favoured mechanism for control over the economy ( this shift is charted quite precisely by Budd , 1978 ) . |