Example sentences of "by the [noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Otherwise , rejection may only be on the ground of infringement of ‘ sovereignty or security ’ ; neither a claim to exclusive jurisdiction by the state of destination over the subject-matter with which the document deals , nor the fact that no cause of action would exist under the law of that state is a proper ground for rejection . |
| 2 | But France has been hit by the kind of unease over European union that British governments have been expressing for years . |
| 3 | They range in size from microscopic flatworms to the giant squid and by the process of evolution over the past hundreds of millions of years , have adapted an amazing variety of different ways of perpetuating their own kind . |
| 4 | Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 5 | Configured like the reticulated rib-cage of some enormous alien creature , long dead and looming over them , the vault appeared not to have been carved but rather rubbed into shape painstakingly , no doubt by the labour of slaves over many decades , millennia earlier . |
| 6 | Price changes ( or returns ) can be viewed as caused by the arrival of information Over some period of time the price change ( or return ) is the sum of a large number of random effects . |
| 7 | Okay , year three to four it 's going to increase by the rate of inflation over that year . |