Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun] over their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another reform that gave schools an incentive to save money was the passing to schools of control over their own budgets . |
| 2 | They were then smuggled out of the building in a police decoy operation , being driven away in unmarked cars with blankets over their heads . |
| 3 | TWO screaming children threw cups of water over their burning father after he set himself on fire . |
| 4 | Many commentators have suggested that non-manual workers enjoy considerable advantages in employment over their manual counterparts : they tend to enjoy more job security , work shorter hours , have longer holidays , more fringe benefits , and have greater promotion prospects ( Table 7 below illustrates some of these points ) . |
| 5 | Forest Goblins wear warpaint in broad bands of colour over their bodies . |
| 6 | Many headmen regarded the establishment of police stations with jurisdiction over their localities as a challenge to their own authority . |
| 7 | But it must have been based upon replicating entities with power over their own future . |
| 8 | This is reproduced below in full because the work on the INSET project relied on the contract as a guarantee of teacher 's rights of control over their material . |
| 9 | Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes , they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships . |
| 10 | In England , the guidelines issued by the Lord Chief Justice for sentencing in rape cases set out a starting point of eight years ’ imprisonment for two or more rapists acting together , for men who rape victims in the victim 's own home , for those who abuse positions of responsibility over their victims and for rape involving abduction . |
| 11 | These funny-looking blokes just turned up on the doorstep with rolls of carpet over their shoulders asking if we wanted to buy them . |
| 12 | Alternatively , and like another important example of advanced technology — the word processor — they may induce defensive responses ( see Barker and Downing , 1980 ) : responses designed to maintain or regain occupants ' previous levels of control over their environmental conditions . |
| 13 | PROTECTION officers face the jibes of colleagues over their ‘ flunkey ’ duties for VIPs . |
| 14 | As the Venezuelan Communists said , in the midst of polemics with Castro over their withdrawal of support for the guerrilla movement , ‘ We reject the role of revolutionary ‘ pope ’ which Fidel Castro arrogates to himself . ’ |
| 15 | But then again , a penetrating light : a group of young men with carbines over their shoulders marching through the foothills of Mount Lebanon . |
| 16 | GARRY SCHOFIELD , at odds with Leeds over their refusal to let him play in Australia next summer , is back for tonight 's Headingley clash with Halifax . |