Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It seems after he decided to pull me off , he looked back and decided on different reasons for things over the years to stir up our relationship . ’ |
| 2 | This desire for control over all aspects of her life is allied to a single-minded approach to her career which dates back long before she became famous . |
| 3 | Here , then , a connection is being made between organization power structures and the needs of dominant social classes for control over the workplace . |
| 4 | Slim victory for school over boy 's beating Allan McLean on the impact of the European court 's decision on corporal punishment |
| 5 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 6 | It was another victory for David over Goliath . |
| 7 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 8 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if a text shows a repeated preference for passives over actives , it is natural to consider this preference a feature of style . |
| 10 | The PIMS data still give some cause for puzzlement over the question of investment intensity , however , because Buzzell and Gale show that five-year averages of ROI are highly positively related to increases in the long-term value of the business , both being closely and positively associated with initial competitive position . |
| 11 | Seven other individuals , not related to his family , who had come to have a high regard for Beattie over the years among them were three or four Roman Catholics , including a man whom he had helped to find a new house after he and his wife had been intimidated out of their home by the Provisional IRA . |
| 12 | Mutual support in troubled times then , is seen as a reciprocal reward for cooperation over the long term . |
| 13 | In 1859 he built the first of his 2–2–2 type express locomotives , two of which took part in the railway ‘ race ’ between east- and west-coast companies from London to Edinburgh in 1888 , and in 1863 he developed the 2–4–0 type for use over more heavily graded routes . |
| 14 | The Electronic Studio represents ‘ a real lead for AMV over other agencies ’ , he says . |
| 15 | The vapour at this boiling temperature is represented by point D. If we plot all such points for compositions over the complete range we obtain the upper curve in figure 6.15 . |
| 16 | In fact , months earlier , before there was any real cause for concern over his health rate at all , I had a sudden flash forward . |
| 17 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 18 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 19 | If teachers are able to resist the force of such wholly misleading claims as this from such powerful sources it will be a remarkable victory for sense over folly . |
| 20 | Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such . |
| 21 | It is also a very useful rig for fishing over soft mud and weed . |
| 22 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 23 | Education provides two major areas for arguments over access to information . |
| 24 | Likewise the excess rate for males over females , for town dwellers over country dwellers , for social class V over social class I , all of which coincide with smoking differences , can be explained by other means . |
| 25 | But it was n't all gloom for Cauthen over the week-end and a brilliant ride landed the Irish St Leger on Mashaallah . |
| 26 | Gerry was probably Mr Head 's most effective signing for Palace over our four years in the top flight 1969–73 . |
| 27 | Together with Germany in the 1930s , Russia since 1917 has had the most penetrating system of political propaganda , but it was severely hampered at first by inefficient technical means for dissemination over vast spaces and many minority nationalities . |
| 28 | It completed a mini double for Forest over Southampton — they also defeated them in the ZDS final at Wembley the Sunday before last . |
| 29 | This world view forgets that people must live now , and , even if capitalism is inevitably to break down , there will be considerable room for manoeuvre over how this happens and what will replace it … . |
| 30 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |