Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm so you would have done er yeah then you 've got You 've got your speed of distance over time correctly . |
| 2 | Apart from loss of control over females , there is also another danger in overinflating the size of the harem . |
| 3 | Loss of control over events . |
| 4 | Azerbaijani attempts to open a new front in the east through attacks on the Askeran region of the enclave from Agdam could not prevent their loss of control over Lachin on May 17 . |
| 5 | A further twenty-four lots were withdrawn as a result of uncertainty over ownership . |
| 6 | The study of recall over time has been used to find whether there are separate system underlying short-term and long-term memory or only one system functioning at different levels ( Baddeley , 1976 ) . |
| 7 | Phonocentricism consists in a privileging of speech over writing . |
| 8 | However , in addition to providing information about the child , an indication of change over time may also be helpful in evaluating the success of previous attempts at remedial intervention . |
| 9 | But correct as the analysis may be it is limited to pragmatic instrumentalist legal theory , and the prescription fails to take account of social theories which may help to explain the changes in the rule of law over time . |
| 10 | There is an additional complication to this picture which is the increasing effect of demand over time . |
| 11 | The National Union of Women Workers , NUWW ( a philanthropic offshoot of Hopkins ' Ladies ' Association for the Care of Friendless Girls formed in 1895 ) , launched a fresh assault on the conspiracy of silence over incest at their annual conference in 1906 . |
| 12 | The maintenance of control over Rome itself was an inspiration of all popes — as old as the history of the papacy . |
| 13 | But finally there was a victory , a quiet one in his own breast , and something like the elevation of disdain over stupidity and meanness , and rest after the long battle . |
| 14 | There is something so fatally trivial about this movie in its elevation of appearance over substance , that I feel an irrational resistance to her as Claudia . |
| 15 | Even these plans were subject to delay ; in November 1962 , at a special corporation meeting , Alderman James Hegarty moved a vote of censure over delays which meant that 300 out of 500 houses planned in the autumn of 1960 had been delayed . |
| 16 | And they will recall that day at Twickenham when Carling 's team observed the traditional formality of victory over Wales to secure its second Grand Slam . |
| 17 | On rocky ground the friction of rope over crests and round corners much reduces fall impacts . |
| 18 | If it is seen as part of control over quality of education , the parent might ask why the child should be given access at all . |
| 19 | ‘ You look fabulous , you know , ’ said Miranda , deciding to take the part of generosity over envy . |
| 20 | Moreover , one important advantage of Raman over IR spectroscopy is that water has very weak Raman scattering , and vibrational spectra of aqueous solutions are almost always studied most readily using Raman techniques . |
| 21 | THE springtime reduction of ozone over Antarctica is now well established observationally and the processes involved are quantitatively understood theoretically . |
| 22 | Southend United .... 3 Tottenham Hotspur .. 2 ( aet ; score at 90 min 3-2 ; agg 3-3 ; Tottenham win on away goals ) TOTTENHAM ended last night playing party tricks to waste time at Roots Hall , but it had taken them nearly two hours to establish a semblance of control over Southend in a throbbing , snarling , extraordinarily eventful Littlewoods Cup second round , second leg . |
| 23 | It was viewed by the BBFC last week in the wake of a storm of controversy over claims that the game depicted torture and mutilation . |
| 24 | An announcement by the council , dissociating itself from the comments and stressing its anti-racist policy , failed to quell a storm of protest over Mr McNeill 's remarks . |
| 25 | Unions are hoping it could persuade one company to have a change of heart over plans for a pay freeze for some of it 's workers . |
| 26 | Could it also be that Darlington 's fun and games loving Labour councillors have finally had a change of heart over conferences ? |
| 27 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 28 | The Smiths were the second coming of Postcard — the whiter-than-white ‘ pure pop ’ : the sexual ambiguity ; the Luddite insistence on guitars : Edwyn Collins 's avowed rating of romance over sex ; the swoon instead of the earthy R&B rasp ; the flustered undanceability . |
| 29 | This thorough stayer , bought out of Guy Harwood 's yard for 25,000 guineas , was a decent staying handicapper on the Flat and will be very hard to beat if reproducing that kind of form over hurdles . |
| 30 | He subsequently concluded that , in spite of his own intentions , it was still too deeply coloured by the thought of Kierkegaard and Heidegger , that it gave faith a wrong kind of priority over revelation in the arrangement of its material , and that its account of faith was more Existentialist than Christian . |