Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [noun] over their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many parents bitterly objected to their loss of control over their children ( and particularly to the violence of ritualised corporal punishment ) . |
| 2 | Sir Bryan told the insurance industry yesterday that commissions should be related to the long-term maintenance of policies over their full lifetime , rather than paid out as a lump sum immediately a policy was sold . |
| 3 | ‘ The sex object , ’ quipped Maria , a sweet clenching sensation assailing her loins as she reflected on the helplessness of her response to his torrid lovemaking , resentment rising a second later because she still lacked any semblance of control over their relationship . |
| 4 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 5 | The two companies claim the agreement will mean that customers switching from leased line services to local network interconnect systems will be able to maintain the level of control over their internetworks to which they have become accustomed . |
| 6 | The couple have clashed with the Archbishop of York over their wish . |
| 7 | While force and the means of destruction are primarily physical realities , the path to their deployment in the manner we now fear is through the emotions and decisions of beings who are able to achieve a measure of control over their actions . |
| 8 | Many writers in this issue and many community health workers in general would readily admit the importance of the political setting of health care and the importance of the political will of states to encourage/allow their citizens some measure of control over their health , another constant factor in this question of control . |
| 9 | Given a willingness on the part of the academic community , all the student freedoms I have cited — from the right of applicants to have their experiential learning taken into account in the admissions process , through allowing students a significant measure of control over their curriculum , to submitting to an assessment regime which is explicitly designed to allow students to do justice to the higher-order abilities they have acquired — could be assured to students . |
| 10 | It will ’ devolve budgets to units , giving them a significant measure of control over their own finances . |
| 11 | I was glad to see Ezra , because what biased attitudes he has are so biased that he manages to be , all round , a more generous-minded and discriminating person that others who spread their capacity for bias over their entire mental outlook ’ . |
| 12 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 13 | Both family and part-time farmers felt that with the farm they had a greater degree of control over their future . |
| 14 | It is argued that this gives unions a greater degree of control over their members and greater bargaining strength . |
| 15 | Although it is possible to see networks as a mechanism through which workers exercise some ‘ degree of control over their labour market , it is important to acknowledge the extent to which they are , by definition , discriminatory . |
| 16 | It is hoped an Ada version of ANDF will allow government , defence and corporate procurers to exercise a much greater degree of control over their suppliers , by enabling them to separate hardware and software purchasing considerations . |
| 17 | Praxis argues ANDF will eventually allow government , defence and other large information technology procurers to exercise a much greater degree of control over their suppliers , by separating hardware and software purchasing considerations . |
| 18 | Several former advocates of behaviourist approaches have since changed their stance significantly , and begun to argue that all pupils , including those who experience difficulties in learning , should have a greater degree of control over their own learning ( Ainscow 1989 ) . |
| 19 | There were strong pressures from still further national minorities for a greater degree of control over their own affairs . |
| 20 | This work is grounded in the view that this kind of awareness on the part of children as writers enables them to gain a degree of control over their imagination ( see Rowland , The Enquiring Classroom , 1984 and ‘ Responding to Children 's Interests ’ , 1986 ) . |
| 21 | Their confidence in the system derives from consultation over proposed innovations , from training and from the degree of control over their work which has been consciously left with them . |
| 22 | BEHIND the war of words over their respective performances , there is good news for all three ferry operators on the Ulster-Scotland sea-route . |
| 23 | The most important thing to understand here is that people try to re-establish some sort of control over their situation . |
| 24 | The French are pragmatic to the point of openness over their illegal activities but in the end it is the smallest and most immoral of them all , Mossad , which is the most efficient . |
| 25 | Majority shareholders Hamish and George Deans were faced with hostility from more than 50 small shareholders at the meeting at Brockville over their motion to remove the men . |
| 26 | In open-ended stalls , the sows are kept in place by chains over their necks or bodies . |
| 27 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
| 28 | He 'd seen women in his boyhood with shawls over their heads and bare feet , with the same air of ancient breeding . |
| 29 | They spread this reduction in consumption over their lifetime , so that total savings fall initially by sdG ( where ) . |
| 30 | The centre 's goal has been to enhance the quality of life of people who have cancer , and to possibly allay progression of the disease ; to give people some feeling of control over their lives and their healthcare , and to help them cope better with having cancer . |