Example sentences of "in [noun sg] of [adj] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1951 , a huge rally in support of Spanish sovereignty over Gibraltar was staged in Barcelona , and Franco declared 4 August " Gibraltar Day " . |
| 2 | Two decades after the World Bank report , another commission of inquiry was complaining that the state ‘ interferes excessively in the running of the [ railway ] companies , without that resulting in the clarification of the objectives that they should pursue or in exercise of effective control over them ’ ( CEFE 1984 : 33 ) . |
| 3 | In spite of various difficulties over these early broadcasts and the general absence of supplementary printed material for class use , together with some antipathy towards this innovatory form of teaching , the Cambridge branch persisted with radio programmes into 1929 . |
| 4 | Newton was one of them , and in spite of public fears over a similar junction elsewhere , it had been given the go-ahead . |
| 5 | The Boundary Commission for Scotland concludes that the number of Scottish seats in the House of Commons should remain at 72 in spite of widespread speculation over the loss of Glasgow seats . |
| 6 | The announcement yesterday came after members of the Rail Maritime and Transport union voted heavily in favour of industrial action over the threat of compulsory job losses . |
| 7 | Moreover , a basic premise of Dunlop 's prescription for the advancement of knowledge in industrial relations is the need to break away from the restrictive and myopic confines of problem-solving , institutional studies within individual countries — what has been termed an ‘ ethno-centric ’ bias — in favour of broader comparisons over the course of time and across countries . |
| 8 | The only real shock was the Chancellor 's decision to maintain the price differential of around 20p per gallon in favour of unleaded petrol over leaded four-star . |
| 9 | Hank Holland , president and chief executive , said the firm would continue to support its E and M mainframe series software for another seven to 10 years , but would start to reduce research and development expenditure in favour of client-server environments over the next three years . |
| 10 | If a method can be devised of enabling employees to acquire and sell shares in an unquoted company , and benefit from the increase in value of those shares over the employee 's period of ownership , then it is perceived that employees will wish to participate in the share capital and growth of their employing company and will be motivated to work to increase the value of the business . |
| 11 | In view of these concerns over the mode of inheritance of chronic inflammatory bowel disease , attempts to map susceptibility loci should be analysed by a robust linkage test ( for example , affected pedigree member of ‘ sib pair ’ test ) so as to minimise false positive claims of linkage . |
| 12 | The ceremony must take place in front of two witnesses over the age of 18 . |