Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 From the time of the re-establishment of Serbian rule over Kosovo in 1878 , the Albanian population of the province was persecuted , and throughout the interwar period their hostility to Serbian rule continued to mount .
2 These intellectual breakthroughs actually coincided with a new social anxiety over incest throughout Europe .
3 Like a Napoleon or a Montgomery , in fact like any truly great captain , Pétain enhanced his magnetic influence over rank-and-file by frequent surprise visits to the front , presenting medals in person immediately after an attack , enquiring about the wounded .
4 There was not a sharp transition to the next phase because public sector over spill of a ‘ simple housing kind ’ continued into the early 1960s .
5 We had a long and interesting chat over coffee at a Yonge Street restaurant .
6 There is a clear excess over expectation of cyanogenic forms in the areas of high and very high mollusc density and of acyanogenic forms in the areas of very low mollusc density .
7 The actor John Thaw accepted a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court over allegations in the People in December 1988 about his behaviour while filming the TV series Inspector Morse .
8 During the 1992 producing season , the four wells on the Panuke development are expected to produce over 3.5 million barrels of high quality 55° API oil ( Scotian Light ) which attracts a premium price over Brent in the world market .
9 As one of the composer 's biographers has observed , ‘ the German victory over France in 1870–71 was the grand occasion for the digging up of great heros of the French past .
10 Around 1720 Daniel Defoe witnessed a splendid triumph of determined old age over adversity near Lewes .
11 ST MARY 'S set up a mouthwatering final with Queen 's after a spirited victory over UCG at St Paul 's .
12 The move by a sub-committee of the council 's highways committee follows public concern over plans by British Rail to replace manned barriers at Chitts Hill , Lexden , and Church Street , Kelvedon , with automatic barriers covering only half the carriageway .
13 AN accident at a Ukrainian nuclear power station which killed one worker has raised fresh concern over safety at the former Soviet republic 's network of five plants , and caused a minor panic .
14 The only important examples are the two-week stoppage over differentials by ASLEF in 1955 , and the same union 's two-week strike in the summer of 1982 ( following a series of short strikes in January and February ) over flexible rostering .
15 Jack Tinker wrote in the Daily Mail , ‘ Not only do we grow to know the entire family environments of George and Doris ( well , even names like that deserve romance ) but we see the passing parade of America 's social life over quarter of a century .
16 The sanctions are designed to force Libya to hand over the two Lockerbie suspects and to co-operate in the investigation in a similar case , the mid-air explosion of a French airliner over Africa in 1989 .
17 Congolese officials admitted on Feb. 5 that the key witness linking the bombing of the French airliner over Niger to Libya had escaped from police custody in Brazzaville , Congo , on Jan. 26 .
18 That surely gives British Coal a distinct advantage over importers in negotiations .
19 The administration , sources say , is anxious that the annual battle over renewal of MFN status should not be the centrepiece of its China policy .
20 But before that there are other hurdles : how to reach agreement with a jealous central bureaucracy over control of ‘ union ’ factories on Estonian soil , vital to the central plan .
21 The unit costs associated with the fire service rose substantially ( as did those for the police , which are harder to recover on a consistent basis over time within the GRE system , but responsible for far more expenditure ) .
22 He threw out a hand , clutching at empty air , then fell backwards , tumbling head over heels down the steps , finally crashing to a stop at the bottom , where he lay in a spreading pool of blood .
23 ESSEX raced to a stunning seven-wicket victory over Sussex as the record books were rewritten at Hove .
24 MALONE opened their defence of the First Trust Senior Cup with an easy victory over North at Ormeau yesterday .
25 Arabs note with pride that the Western objective of an easy victory over Iraq in a short ‘ surgical ’ war seems to have been confounded .
26 ALLAN LAMB , the man at the centre of cricket 's infamous ball-doctoring row , was served with a writ at Lord 's before leading Northants to a glorious eight-wicket victory over Leicester in the NatWest final .
27 AUSTRALIA top the World Series table after an eight-wicket victory over Pakistan in Adelaide yesterday .
28 To complicate the picture even further , there are a number of other devices which , although not strictly security interests in the sense of vesting some type of proprietary interest in the creditor or which give him possessory control over assets of the debtor company , nevertheless act as security .
29 These differences of orientation are what serve to separate elitism from pluralism , rather than a mere argument over numbers in the distribution of power .
30 PACE aces Waqar Younis and Wasim Akram produced the goods again as Pakistan claimed a thrilling three-run victory over England at Lord 's .
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