Example sentences of "[noun sg] a [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Hall 's goal that gave Alton College a 1–0 win over Barton Peveril in the quarter-finals . |
| 2 | The appointment of Charlton would be seen in Manchester as the perfect solution to the damaging public wrangling that has made the club a public farce over recent weeks . |
| 3 | According to US press reports on May 18 , President George Bush had the previous week overruled the wishes of the Environmental Protection Agency and given industry a major concession over the implementation of the Clean Air Act as amended in November 1990 [ see p. 37847 ] . |
| 4 | The lower court had accepted a submission from eight dissident congressional deputies of the ruling Justicialist ( Peronist ) Party , that the proposed sale would give Austral a virtual monopoly over the domestic market , and granted a 60-day suspension to allow investigations into allegations that the tender violated Argentine company law . |
| 5 | Following an enforced climb-down by Palmerston over a scheme by Hall for military bands in the Royal Parks on Sundays , the cordiality between the two men seems to have evaporated , and on 13th October , 1856 , Palmerston sent Hall a blunt admonition over the Government Offices . |
| 6 | Findlay , is due in today and providing he overcomes his jetlag , he could again prove the trump card and give his team a rare victory over Bury , who have already beaten them on all four occasions the two teams have met this season . |
| 7 | Leaving aside for the moment a final conflict over the estates of Canterbury , we may turn to Anselm 's efforts to hold a council for the reform of morals and discipline throughout the land . |
| 8 | This brings out what is perhaps the essential feature of a security interest , namely , that ultimately it gives the holder of the security a proprietary claim over assets , normally the debtor 's , to secure payment of the debt . |
| 9 | She turned to the bathroom , throwing Roman a quiet goodnight over her shoulder . |
| 10 | A GARY CROSBY goal after 70 minutes gave Nottingham Forest a 1-0 win over QPR at the City Ground and ended 169 days ' misery in the Premier League 's bottom three . |
| 11 | There is of course a continuing controversy over whether the bureaucratic bourgeoisie of senior military , civil , party , co-operative and industrial administrators constitute a distinct class ; or whether they merely form part of a larger and more differentiated social stratum ; whether such a class is dominant or subservient to metropolitan capital ; where the boundary around such a class should be drawn ; whether it is fully formed or not , and whether the power of the state is equivalent to the power of the bureaucracy as a social entity ( Murray 1967 ; Leys 1976 ; Zieman and Lanzendorfer 1977 ) . |
| 12 | In Division Three , Mark Brown and Mark McNally scored to give Brookhouse a 2-1 win over High Oaks . |
| 13 | That surely gives British Coal a distinct advantage over importers in negotiations . |
| 14 | The eager Yugoslav striker , who also provided the late winner last December that gave Red Star a 3–2 win over Anderlecht , was the key to his team 's 2–0 defeat of the Greeks . |
| 15 | Whatever the explanation , the above treatment is cheap , does not involve drugs and gives the patient a greater control over his treatment . |
| 16 | Until 1936 , the other rural counties in the District were regarded as ‘ open territory ’ but in that year a partial relaxation over public expenditure restrictions occurred and the issues inherent in the compromise over the rural areas agreement between the Cambridge Board and the District emerged in sharply focussed ways . |
| 17 | Why or how it originated is not known , but the Lady Mayoress takes charge of it for the rest of the mayoral year , and no doubt a quick rap over the knuckles will soon curb any tendency the Lord Mayor might have to step out of line . |
| 18 | Identifying customer needs can enable a company to develop a product and marketing mix that give the company a competitive advantage over its rivals . |
| 19 | in a way that gives the company a competitive advantage over rivals |
| 20 | and one which , as he has noticed while walking through the great houses of the world , ‘ has given many an anonymous carver a little power over the grave . ’ |
| 21 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 22 | Second division leaders De Vere ( Kevin Ford ) won 1-0 at Conlons Newsagents , Albion forfeited their 100 per cent record in a 3-3 draw with Doric Celtic and a second half goal from Paul Stevens gained Fitness Connection a 1-0 win over Alex . |
| 23 | ' Mr Kinnock 's confidence was bolstered by an NOP survey in last night 's London Evening Standard , which gave his party a 9-point lead over the Conservatives ( 46 per cent to 37 ) . |