Example sentences of "[noun pl] 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 | 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 … . |
| 3 | In the National League play-offs , Robby Thompson hit a two-run home run in the seventh inning to give the San Francisco Giants a 5-4 victory over the Chicago Cubs , leaving put them 2-1 ahead . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Goals from Joe Robertson and James McGinty yesterday earned Rangers a 2-1 win over Partick Thistle , while Celtic beat Queen 's Park 4-2 in the tournament in which the clubs now field their youth sides . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Warne was and earned the Aussies a vital victory over Sri Lanka by taking three for 11 in 31 deliveries . |
| 9 | It would seem then that if conditions of work were altered in order to give employees a greater control over such factors as the pace at which they work , and the arrangement of their working day around breaks at times which they feel are necessary , then certain improvements may be achieved . |