Example sentences of "[noun] a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The elongated nose , however , gave these animals a considerable advantage over their competitors . |
| 2 | The appointment of Charlton would be seen in Manchester as the perfect solution to the damaging public wrangling that has made the club a public farce over recent weeks . |
| 3 | According to US press reports on May 18 , President George Bush had the previous week overruled the wishes of the Environmental Protection Agency and given industry a major concession over the implementation of the Clean Air Act as amended in November 1990 [ see p. 37847 ] . |
| 4 | The lower court had accepted a submission from eight dissident congressional deputies of the ruling Justicialist ( Peronist ) Party , that the proposed sale would give Austral a virtual monopoly over the domestic market , and granted a 60-day suspension to allow investigations into allegations that the tender violated Argentine company law . |
| 5 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 6 | AN interception try and a penalty , both in the last five minutes , earned Llanelli a narrow victory over Boroughmuir in a spectacular game in front of a 4,000 crowd at Meggetland last night . |
| 7 | Findlay , is due in today and providing he overcomes his jetlag , he could again prove the trump card and give his team a rare victory over Bury , who have already beaten them on all four occasions the two teams have met this season . |
| 8 | Leaving aside for the moment a final conflict over the estates of Canterbury , we may turn to Anselm 's efforts to hold a council for the reform of morals and discipline throughout the land . |
| 9 | Norman Pinder gave Meryl a hesitant smile over the top of his tray . |
| 10 | This brings out what is perhaps the essential feature of a security interest , namely , that ultimately it gives the holder of the security a proprietary claim over assets , normally the debtor 's , to secure payment of the debt . |
| 11 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 12 | She turned to the bathroom , throwing Roman a quiet goodnight over her shoulder . |
| 13 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 14 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 15 | There are seven demanding par-4s in excess of 400 yards , not to mention the lovely 3rd hole — at 394 yards a cracking dog-leg over a hill to a green nestling alongside the mere . |
| 16 | ‘ Sit down before you go , ’ said Mrs Parker kindly ; she thought McAllister a great improvement over Bailey , so soft-spoken and pleasant . |
| 17 | Their majority gave Unionist MPs a virtual veto over policies and appointments in the long run , but their junior position in government prevented any more positive control . |
| 18 | Nottm Forest 0 , Sheff W 2 FIRST-HALF goals by Williams and Hirst gave Sheffield Wednesday a notable victory over a Nottingham Forest side buckling under the strain of playing four matches in a week , writes Don Hardisty . |
| 19 | Government sources confirmed that Britain would no longer stand in the way of a UN resolution to use military force to police a no-fly zone over Bosnia . |
| 20 | That surely gives British Coal a distinct advantage over importers in negotiations . |
| 21 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 22 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 23 | Identifying customer needs can enable a company to develop a product and marketing mix that give the company a competitive advantage over its rivals . |
| 24 | in a way that gives the company a competitive advantage over rivals |
| 25 | Warne was and earned the Aussies a vital victory over Sri Lanka by taking three for 11 in 31 deliveries . |
| 26 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 27 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 28 | ' Mr Kinnock 's confidence was bolstered by an NOP survey in last night 's London Evening Standard , which gave his party a 9-point lead over the Conservatives ( 46 per cent to 37 ) . |