Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my heart I know she is mine but the uncertainty over all this is agonising . |
| 2 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 3 | They feel a sense of outrage like English people and they feel guilt over all this . |
| 4 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 5 | First , in the event of the insolvency of a company a secured creditor will at least have priority to unsecured creditors and will , according to the seniority of his claim , have priority over any less senior security holders . |
| 6 | If we do as the Russians want and hand over all these prisoners to them whether or not the prisoners are willing to go back to Russia , we are … sending some of them to their death ; and although in war we can not , as you point out … afford to be sentimental , I confess that I find the prospect somewhat revolting , and I should expect public opinion to reflect the same feeling … |
| 7 | The only factor casting a shadow over all this was our concern , emphasized by Terry , that whatever governments might agree , Islamic Jihad would still insist on the release of the seventeen men held in Kuwait . |
| 8 | Just one more trip over one more river . |
| 9 | It is increasingly difficult for the establishment elites to retain dominance over all this new activity , even if they still have charge of the key institutions such as the Bank of England . |
| 10 | They do have an inbuilt desire to lay down dominance over one another . |
| 11 | The trade unions have sustained the Labour party over all these years and Labour gave the trade unions the appalling powers which were so badly abused in the run-up to the 1979 election when , as we all know , the country was brought to its knees by a new strike almost every week . |
| 12 | In years to come , old men will stare into clubhouse pints and recite the names like a litany , from Webb ( J ) to Richards ( D ) , the way the Welsh drool over all those Davieses and Williamses . |