Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 It is vital that the social worker does not get hooked into the same set of fears , nor slide into a collusion in supporting staff in their problems with management over staff shortages , overtime , and other organisational difficulties at the expense of meeting needs of residents .
2 Not surprisingly the British achieved little with their request for direct American support in their dispute with Indonesia over Malaysia .
3 Nor was Washington pleased when the British resorted to their usual tricks in their search for influence over American policy .
4 The increased availability , from the North Sea and also from the Middle East and Africa , will almost certainly mean a considerable increase in its use throughout Europe over the next decade .
5 [ For Saudi backing for UAE in its dispute with Iran over control of the Gulf island of Abu Musa see p. 39116 . ]
6 Unionist leaders organized a demonstration against her visit and the Lord Mayor of the city refused to meet her on the grounds that she represented a state which laid claim in its constitution to jurisdiction over Northern Ireland .
7 There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia .
8 He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding .
9 The former brigadier Toby Low was continuing his evidence in his action for damages over accusations that he repatriated 70,000 Yugoslavs and Cossacks from Allied-occupied Austria in 1945 , knowing they faced almost certain death .
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