Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [v-ing] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called on parliament yesterday to sack its chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , while Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of playing games over the fate of Russia . |
| 2 | In developing its plans for the redeployment of the Army , the General Staff were faced with three major difficulties : lack of genuine air mobility ; loss of overflying rights over Arab countries and restricted overflying of the Indian subcontinent due to India 's ‘ non-aligned ’ stance and Pakistan 's natural sympathy for Moslem Arab Nationalism ; and the justifiable reluctance in Whitehall to build up new overseas bases . |
| 3 | Fear of losing control over others . |
| 4 | The maltote too thus became a regular impost , though the commons were not prepared to grant it for more than a year or two at a time for fear of losing control over it and to prevent the king from reviving the monopolistic schemes for exploiting the producers which they had struggled against between 1336 and 1351 . |
| 5 | The cheque must not exceed the limit set by the banker 's card , i.e. £50 unless the management personally accept the responsibility of authorising cheques over this amount . |
| 6 | This is a vital part of retaining control over the finances of the business . |
| 7 | Payne says the advantage of using emulation over binary-to-binary translation is that ISVs do not have to tinker with their applications one iota to get them up on PowerPC , they just run , although some performance is lost . |
| 8 | These are the circumstances under which successive Nigerian governments have attempted to indigenize , in the hope of gaining control over their economic and ultimately their developmental destinies . |
| 9 | A new airline operating between the heart of racing country over there and the top National Hunt Festival in the world over here believes getting there really is half the fun . |
| 10 | — The farmer who sprayed a trailer-load of stinking slurry over council offices when his plans for a retirement bungalow were turned down . |
| 11 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |
| 12 | In view of the Christian concern with human personality and individual responsibility and the importance of retaining areas over which discretion is possible , it is imperative that the present growth of government in modern society be halted . |
| 13 | Apparently from the centuries-old custom of throwing salt over one 's left shoulder in order to avert bad luck . ’ |
| 14 | You will be able to enjoy the process of acquiring control over your eating and exercise behaviour and the success you gain by losing weight will be long-lasting . |
| 15 | The process of gaining control over your health-related habits should be easy and fun . |
| 16 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 17 | One general problem of socialism is to find a satisfactory mode of institutionalising conflict over the allocation of resources within the context of planning , and minimising the antagonisms it could generate . |
| 18 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 19 | Alarmed by the sense of losing control over the sprawling Empire , the government moved further and further away from the spirit of the ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats . |
| 20 | In some cases this only extends to personal or physical independence , but for many people ageing represents a threat to their independence in the much wider sense of losing control over how they wish to live their lives . |
| 21 | If other people have it they represent a threat to our independence , to our ability to make choices and to our sense of having control over people and situations in our own lives . |
| 22 | This change is functional for the stability of monopoly capitalism because the pseudo-democracy of direct voting by a mass electorate for leaders or policies increases the legitimacy of the political system , allows the mass of citizens to be co-opted into compliance , and poses no real risk of losing control over key state decisions to the masses . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 24 | Fighting went on in New France for another twelve months , but after the fall of Quebec this was more a matter of moving forces over long distances than of confronting threats that the French might retrieve their position . |
| 25 | This was done to maximize the possibility of detecting contrasts over conditions , since an asymmetry would be expected to lead to high proportions of singular continuations which might make differences between conditions hard to detect . |
| 26 | Faced with economic problems caused by rising fuel prices , the managerial staff of organisations and institutions housed in non-domestic buildings may welcome the possibility of gaining control over energy consumption which seems to be offered by technological developments that are comparatively cheap . |
| 27 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |