Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts over aspects of the legislation came as the Labour leader , John Smith , accused the Prime Minister of trying to prevent the Commons having a say on the social chapter . |
| 2 | Mindful of the quarrels over precedence among the Bonaparte family which had marred his uncle 's coronation , Napoleon III may have felt it unwise to provide them with a similar occasion for bad manners . |
| 3 | While the European Community quarrels over subsidies with America and other farm exporters in the Uruguay round of world trade talks , New Zealand 's farmers are showing that eliminating subsidies completely will not wipe out farming , but make it far more efficient instead . |
| 4 | BRITAIN and China , deadlocked for months over plans for democratic reforms in Hong Kong , will hold talks in Beijing on arrangements for 1995 elections in the colony , Chinese sources said yesterday . |
| 5 | Together with Richard Dunwoody , another friend and neighbour , he welcomed Llewelyn into the brotherhood of National winners over dinner on Saturday night . |
| 6 | Summerbee struck right on the stroke of half-time to set up a clash with France impressive 3–0 winners over Portugal in the final tomorrow . |
| 7 | Differing values and influences over generations of childrearing in the English speaking world have included concepts of religious morality , medical morality , natural development and natural needs , individualism and the ‘ fun ’ morality , added to which there is now the parental dilemma of whether to be friend or authority ( Newson and Newson , 1974 ) . |
| 8 | Whether , as is sometimes asserted , the development of more rapid communications , above all the telegraph , greatly increased the control of foreign ministries over diplomats in the field is at least debatable . |
| 9 | Are there warranties over performance of business from last balance sheet date to exchange ? |
| 10 | Are there warranties over conduct of business between exchange and completion ? |
| 11 | h - 1 CCK-33 resulted in significant ( p<0.05 ) increases in plasma CCK concentrations over baseline in all experiments . |
| 12 | Müncheberg himself , promoted and highly-decorated , would fall in combat with American fighters over Tunisia during March 1943 after his 135th. victory . |
| 13 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 14 | HONG Kong will not buckle at the knees over disagreements with China , its governor Chris Patten vowed yesterday . |
| 15 | Conservative Peter Jones told yesterday 's meeting of the borough transport committee he had been ‘ inundated ’ by complaints from traders over lack of access . |
| 16 | Bumping and alarmed shouts rose behind him as he ran out in ecstasy , tumbling heels over head down the last twists of the stair , to tell his mother he was a castle ghillie now ! |
| 17 | Some , such as the Green Iguana from Central and northern South America , are largely vegetarian and diurnal , basking on branches over waterways from which they will dive if predators threaten . |
| 18 | But if we begin from situations in which the community does not find it necessary to impose standards , we find , in the very simplest cases , full confidence and agreement in evaluating , untroubled by worries over differences of taste . |
| 19 | Elaborate precautions were taken to avoid disputes over precedence between the representatives of France and Spain ( the long-standing rivalry between these two states was the most serious potential source of this kind of friction ) by placing them both on the king 's right and at the same distance from him . |
| 20 | In mid-1991 labour relations deteriorated sharply with the sugarcane harvest once again delayed because of disputes over payments for the previous year 's crop . |
| 21 | Their appellate jurisdiction was also extended , presumably by agreement between the Inns and the judges , to issues relating to disputes over property within the Inns : Rakestraw v. Brewer ( 1728 ) 2 P.Wms. 511 , or over elections in the Inns : Inner Temple v. Ince ( 1677 ) 3 Keble 835 , or over debts due to the Inns : Levinz v. Randolph ( 1700 ) 1 Ld.Raym. 594 , which could not by any stretch of the imagination relate to the duties of judges in relation to the administration of justice in their courts . |
| 22 | We were always having rows with them about the back garden , territorial disputes over 15-square-feet of packed mud covered in cat shit . |
| 23 | These objectives said nothing about concrete grievances over discrimination in housing , employment and the electoral franchise . |
| 24 | Scotland has historically collected more comprehensive data and the Scottish Educational Data Archive at the University of Edinburgh permits comprehensive analyses over time of the characteristics of Scottish school leavers entering HE . |
| 25 | In theory , the SDR possesses several major advantages over gold as a reserve asset . |
| 26 | Triticale enjoys several crucial advantages over wheat in developing countries as well as in the industrial nations . |
| 27 | From the conference of Berchtesgaden in November 1937 to the Anschluss of Austria in March 1938 , from the increasingly threatening noises over Czechoslovakia in March 1938 to the abdication of Munich in September 1938 , from the last-ditch , desperate attempts to cobble together a tripartite agreement in May 1939 to the signing of the Nazi-Soviet pact in August 1939 , there was a sense of deathly inevitability compared to which Nizan 's repeated calls for collective security appear as no more than the efforts of a man crying in the wilderness . |
| 28 | He did not anticipate an open struggle for power between the Liberal and Labour Parties , but looked for proportional representation to resolve the tensions over distribution of seats between the two parties within an ongoing alliance of progressive forces . |
| 29 | At least the easing of the Cold War lessened Anglo-American tensions over trade with communist countries . |
| 30 | The early success of adult education arrangements in Norfolk , together with the almost contemporaneous Kettering scheme , had unquestionably buttressed the District 's early and somewhat insecure position vis a vis some other LEAs in fostering co-operation and in establishing its credibility with philanthropic trusts over grant-aid for subsequent enterprises . |