Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] of power over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even her father could n't exert that kind of power over her . |
| 2 | To prove that you had some sort of power over me ? ’ |
| 3 | that different actors have different degrees of power over the creation of media content . |
| 4 | When the haoles took everything , surfing became a gesture of revolt , a symbolic reassertion of power over superior forces . |
| 5 | This is a large élite as élites go , conscious of its privileges and its place , and possessing real instruments of power over those who would challenge it . |
| 6 | The Bank of England has a great deal of power over the financial markets because of its role as lender of last resort . |
| 7 | Whereas statements in the autonomous scientific field are descriptive statements , legal utterances are performatives in their very effects of power over the social . |
| 8 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |
| 9 | This leaves pension funds with a very wide range of powers over the selection and management of investments and this has attracted a degree of adverse attention in recent years . |
| 10 | They therefore had a certain amount of power over others and were also known to receive ‘ perks ’ , for example extra food from the kitchen . |