Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Directly and indirectly , they have a great deal of influence over curricular matters . |
| 6 | We have repaid a great deal of debt over recent years . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making . |
| 9 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 10 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The ribbon is made , and thenceforth she spends a great deal of time over her hair . |
| 13 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 14 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 15 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There is a good deal of controversy over this issue . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 21 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Codes of practice were supposed to protect the customer , by dangling the threat of expulsion and consequent loss of income over the practitioners . |
| 24 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 25 | Loss of control over events . |
| 26 | The family 's loss of control over the youth is crucial to his development in sport , for , if there was a more balanced social management within the West Indian community , it is likely that the vibrance and energy expended in sport could be directed into more orthodox areas . |
| 27 | The decline of pre-marital pregnancy during the late nineteenth century was probably therefore less the product of adoption of middle-class values than the consequence of the felt loss of control over the consequence of heterosexual relations . |
| 28 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 29 | Gray and Jenkins ( 1984 , p. 425 ) point to intraorganizational tensions created by the FMI : for example , between service departments on the one hand and the Treasury ( and formerly also the Management and Personnel Office ) on the other , with the latter fearing loss of control over departmental expenditure and manpower . |
| 30 | Economic decline has been presented as one of the causes of the weakening of the power of the state bureaucracy and its loss of control over its powerful provincial magnates . |