Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the London Docklands Development Corporation ( arguably the least local of the boards ) has been involved in negotiations with the London Borough of Newham over low-cost housing and has resisted proposals from developers to utilize land allocated for such housing for other purposes . |
| 2 | CCG HAS started a new contract to provide school meals for the London Borough of Wandesworth over the next four years . |
| 3 | Interactive Systems Corp — now SunSoft Inc — began by marketing the product strongly , but later faced a barrage of complaints and problems over speed and stability , and reportedly lost a great deal of money over the venture . |
| 4 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 5 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 6 | To someone accustomed by the existing advanced accounting courses , with no involvement in the National Certificate , the proposals seemed somewhat revolutionary and the document generated a good deal of discussion over the following few weeks on the relative merits of the B1 and B2 models etc . |
| 7 | Directly and indirectly , they have a great deal of influence over curricular matters . |
| 8 | We have repaid a great deal of debt over recent years . |
| 9 | ‘ I caused the party a great deal of anxiety over my views ’ he explained and added ‘ but strangely enough with this book it has not been such a struggle . |
| 10 | There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making . |
| 11 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 12 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 13 | I could hardly blame him here — at least his feelings ; but even if , with an earlier and exact diagnosis he could have been spared a great deal of pain over a considerable period of time , I realize that nothing could have saved him . |
| 14 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 15 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 16 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 17 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 18 | From the Carlowitz peace negotiations with the Habsburgs in 1699 , successive grand viziers began to leave him a good deal of control over foreign affairs , though he again was also entrusted with a wide variety of other and quite different functions . |
| 19 | After James II had been overthrown , a new system of government began to develop under which Parliament met every year and voted taxes annually , the King chose ministers who were acceptable to Parliament , the administrative departments became independent of direct royal intervention ( though the King still had a great deal of authority over his ministers ) and Parliament took responsibility for national financial policy . |
| 20 | There is a good deal of controversy over this issue . |
| 21 | In conclusion , we believe that our study avoided the methodological and analytical problems of previous reports , which have given rise to a great deal of controversy over the efficacy of EFA supplementation in AD . |
| 22 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 23 | Witness the attempt to use the impeachment process against Lincoln 's successor , Andrew Johnson ; the defeat of Wilson over the Treaty of Versailles and the routing of his party in the 1920 election . |
| 24 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 25 | Seen from the outside the nature , and above all , the neck-breaking speed of achievements over the past two months may seem remarkable . |
| 26 | The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues . |
| 27 | They have trained-in a succession of concepts over the years : decision making , then situational leadership , and then contingency theory . |
| 28 | It peaked in the election years of 1983 and 1987 and even the collapse of optimism over the period 1978–80 was halted and temporarily reversed at the 1979 election ( The Economist , 1990 , p. 34 ) . |
| 29 | Study in Midlothian had shown a 33% loss , East Lothian a 23% loss and Bedfordshire in England had shown a remarkable 82% loss of ponds over the last century . |
| 30 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |