Example sentences of "debate over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants . |
| 2 | THE NARROW stretch of sea dividing the island of Skye from the Scottish mainland is embroiled in a debate over private investment in road building . |
| 3 | The need to avoid bad history is the reason the debate over the teaching of history in schools is so important : what is the proper balance between traditional concerns with royalty and battles as against the need to understand the great political movements of our time and the social and economic conditions which spawned them ? |
| 4 | As far as the administration is concerned , the debate over what to do next is governed to a large extent by what the American people say they are prepared to sacrifice to force General Noriega to retire or return to the United States to answer drug trafficking charges . |
| 5 | As delegates continued their debate over the new manifesto and statutes late into the night , the arithmetic in the hall began to show a slight drop in the reformist support , while numbers of the popular democracy platform doubled to more than 200 . |
| 6 | The report will spark the next round in the debate over whether hacking should be outlawed . |
| 7 | The economic and political debate over the merits of full EMS membership will now intensify . |
| 8 | The figures highlight the debate over ‘ reciprocity ’ which arose out of the £2.1bn takeover of Rowntree by Swiss group Nestle last year . |
| 9 | But the tense negotiations over the formation of the Alliance , debate over what precisely it meant in terms of policy and tactics ( did it support a coalition , for instance , and if so , with whom ? ) , left the SDP hamstrung from the start . |
| 10 | The British still believed themselves to retain ‘ shared values ’ which the debate over a national educational curriculum in the 1980s helped stimulate anew , as it had done in the French Third Republic after 1875 . |
| 11 | There followed a debate over economic policy in which the principal protagonists — though many others joined in — were Keynes on the one hand and the Treasury on the other . |
| 12 | The interwar debate over economic policy has , of course , been extensively researched in recent years , and Keynes 's contributions are well documented . |
| 13 | But in his belief that economic efficiency must if necessary take priority over social justice , Keynes lacked the left-Liberal vision of a new moral order in society , More than half of Dr Clarke 's book is devoted to the debate over economic policy between 1928 and 1930 . |
| 14 | Serious discussion of the phenomenon began with a debate over the role of the press in reporting violent incidents at football matches . |
| 15 | She is also concerned by West German manouvres to revive the debate over the future of short-range nuclear weapons and to enlist US support to kill plans to modernise the Lance missiles deployed in the Federal Republic . |
| 16 | Around such alternatives have views polarised in the heated debate over what the bill means for viewers . |
| 17 | ‘ The survey demonstrates that the debate over membership of the ERM has become clouded by issues of personalities and politics . |
| 18 | Extending the debate over minimum standards to new trading partners in the East is a long way off . |
| 19 | Your article omits a further important strand to the debate over the past 15 years as to the optimal level of borrowing for firms . |
| 20 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 21 | In the US , rap has been pushed to the forefront of the political debate over censorship after a shop owner was successfully prosecuted for selling ‘ obscene ’ records by the 2 Live Crew . |
| 22 | That debate — and therefore the debate over the Casket Letters — is still very much alive . |
| 23 | Historians are familiar with the events surrounding the death of Henry VIII in January 1547 , and in particular the debate over the authenticity of his will . |
| 24 | Methodists ' main concern was not so much the debate over collectivism v. individualism as over reunion of the various Methodist divisions . |
| 25 | Earlier , during a visit to Southampton , he denied party strategy had been hi-jacked by the debate over proportional representation , disclosing that the decision to highlight constitutional issues on Democracy Day was taken a fortnight ago . |
| 26 | Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons . |
| 27 | A DUTCH research project , beginning this month , hopes to resolve the debate over how long compact discs will last . |
| 28 | Such verdicts add to the intensity of the debate over whether Scotland might be better off on its own . |
| 29 | THE DRUG company SmithKline Beecham fuelled the debate over top salaries on the eve of the election by disclosing that its two senior executive directors collected more than £3.5 million last year , up 35 per cent on 1990 . |
| 30 | There has , for instance , long been a debate over whether a zebra 's stripes make it easier or harder to see . |