Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] over [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 2 | Her clashes with other European heads of state over Britain 's budgetary contribution to the Community aroused all her basic emotions : here , indeed , she had strong support in Britain itself where sympathy for the bureaucrats of Brussels , with their butter mountains and wine lakes , was distinctly muted . |
| 3 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 4 | This aircraft suffered seven hits in Vietnam and the owner had researched the aircraft 's complete military history which included a video tape of this aircraft in action over Vietnam . |
| 5 | The 31-year-old from Paisley had a second 70 at Santa Ponsa to move alongside Ronan Rafferty at four under par , two strokes behind Danish leader Steen Tinning , who has one stroke in hand over England 's Jim Payne , South African Ian Palmer and Sweden 's Joakim Haeggman . |
| 6 | He led his side to victory over Prescot in the FA Vase last week , and was happy to give credit where it was due . |
| 7 | Ray Plummer , Cornwall 's treasurer , had expressed fears that ticket sales would be lower than last year , when about 40,000 Cornishmen swelled the attendance to 56,000 , cheering their side to victory over Yorkshire . |
| 8 | And they will recall that day at Twickenham when Carling 's team observed the traditional formality of victory over Wales to secure its second Grand Slam . |
| 9 | THE springtime reduction of ozone over Antarctica is now well established observationally and the processes involved are quantitatively understood theoretically . |
| 10 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 11 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , the house of Foix-Béarn emerged as the neighbouring territorial power with the greatest measure of control over Bigorre and the important Pyrenean passes which lay within its boundaries . |
| 13 | For the French king , the opportunity of exercising a greater measure of control over Brittany , with its maritime outlets , was not to be missed . |
| 14 | The merger , creating an organisation with sales of more than £600million a year , ends a 20-year battle for control over Remy , the third largest cognac firm and the supplier of Krug champagne . |
| 15 | In return for victory over Otto he paid the price — granting lands and conferring and confirming rights and privileges to the princes , bishops and cities of north Italy who needed his patronage . |
| 16 | But the degree of frustration over IBM 's continued non-performance may make it too late for such half measures , leaving break-up of IBM into more manageable units the only option . |
| 17 | In early 1656 she secured a considerable degree of influence over James Nayler [ q.v. ] , whose works were published first by Calvert and then by Thomas Simmonds . |
| 18 | There at Bruges negotiations , which had been initiated by the papacy in 1374 , foundered on the issue of sovereignty over Aquitaine and produced only a succession of fitful truces until April 1377 . |
| 19 | Shirley Brasher , the 1957 French Open champion , represented Queen 's Club , who won the ladies over 40 doubles with victory over Purley Sports , 4–0 . |
| 20 | But the Banbury environmental research group which has given evidence to the select committee on energy over Harwell says the reasons for the shut-down are more complicated . |
| 21 | The charges , which had been brought by Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) , were alleged by Gingrich to have been motivated by the desire for revenge over Gingrich 's leading role in forcing the 1989 resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright [ see p. 37406 ] . |
| 22 | L1 demised Sevenoaks Farm to B and Greenland to C. L1 granted B a right of way over Greenland , and C was entitled to the benefit of a covenant granted by L1 for the quiet enjoyment of Greenland . |
| 23 | Scott J concluded that if D 's enjoyment of Greenland was interrupted by B exercising a right of way over Greenland , D could enforce the covenant for quiet enjoyment against L1 , even though there was neither privity of contract nor privity of estate between D and L1 . |
| 24 | It will provide a single point of control over Novell networks , enabling users to maintain integrated system management security across host systems and the NetWare network computing environments , CA claims . |
| 25 | At the centre of political power , Johnson depended on his ability to retain the confidence of Congress over Vietnam ; and here also the overwhelming support , revealed in 1964 over the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution , began to break up . |
| 26 | However , a review which was triggered by a crisis of confidence over NHS funding ended by saying nothing about funding levels at all and leaving the method of funding through general taxation unchanged ( apart from the ideological blip of allowing tax relief on private health insurance for the over 65s ) . |
| 27 | Increased concern over the atmospheric ozone layer followed from the discovery of massive springtime reductions in ozone over Antarctica . |
| 28 | Hooker Phil Kearns , at only 24 , is undoubtedly going to be around for many years to come and successfully led the Australian under-21 team to victory over New Zealand under 21 's four years ago . |
| 29 | Clubbe 's 18-year-old son , Charles Junior , is a highly promising batsman and last Sunday he hit a brilliant 123 his maiden century to steer Flintshire Colts to victory over Caernarvonshire in the North Wales County championship . |
| 30 | Based on his wartime diaries , Ron records what it was like to be in the nose of a Lancaster at night over Germany , and to be the radar eyes in the navigation cabin . |