Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major bloc-based classification reflects the economic , political and cultural-ideological struggle between capitalism and communism for control over the global system . |
| 2 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 3 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 4 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 5 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 6 | The report continues with a list of cases in which disputes over fixtures in listed building led to a public enquiry , a court case , or both and concludes with a section entitled ‘ How to make the legislation more effective ’ , which provides advice to owners , information on Stop Notices and calls for control over the sale of fixtures . |
| 7 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 8 | They were also , however , profoundly suspicious of proposals for state welfare , which they identified as a means of diminishing working-class control over their own lives and as palliative substitutes for the workers ' just demands for control over the means of production , high wages and full employment . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | Black Holes are fascinating , and have caused a great deal of excitement over the past 20 years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making . |
| 14 | Interim reporting has been attracting a great deal of attention over the past year . |
| 15 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 16 | Constanze was to spend a good deal of time over the next two years at Baden , where her husband often visited her . |
| 17 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 18 | The programmers in the company initially had a good deal of control over the computer installation , which provoked management to cut down their influence . |
| 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 | El Segundo , California-based systems integrator , Computer Sciences Corp , and Sun Microsystems Inc are teaming to offer client/server solutions to aeroplane builders — the two expect to win $80m of business over the next 18 months : CSC won the $3bn , 10-year outsourcing contract with General Dynamics in 1991 . |
| 21 | Then he slides his saucepan of milk over the flame . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | But the price of obtaining the destruction of working-class power and organization was a loss of control over the state by the bourgeoisie and nobility . |
| 27 | Scientist Tom Clarkson said that there was a 50-60 percent loss of ozone over the Antarctic during the southern spring ( from September to November ) . |
| 28 | This has come about partly as a result of research over the last 10 years or so into various forms of involvement in the teaching of reading . |
| 29 | The French and British governments are following exactly the opposite policies on production in the public sector ; the French have nationalised an additional 12% of industrial output while the British have begun to sell public assets to the private sector and to plan a vigorous programme of privatisation over the next few years . |
| 30 | This year 's profits will be used to help fund a record £1.5billion programme of investment over the next five years to cope with what is described as ‘ a phenomenal ’ growth in mail . |