Example sentences of "[noun sg] for [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 2 | Audrey Hamilton , 35 , of Barnett Crescent , Kirkcaldy , and John Watson , of Simpson Court , Crail , each sued Fife Health Board for £20,000 over the death of their son , David , in 1976 . |
| 3 | The major bloc-based classification reflects the economic , political and cultural-ideological struggle between capitalism and communism for control over the global system . |
| 4 | Italian firm Same-Lamborghini has done its bit for variety over the years , with a series of innovations that suggest that its research and development department gets a bigger budget than many other companies ' equivalents . |
| 5 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 6 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | The guard was removed on the following day , but the incident exemplified the renewed struggle for control over the influential liberal daily newspaper . |
| 8 | Although promotion slipped from our grasp early on , our fight for survival over the last seven months has been real nail-biting stuff . |
| 9 | A few years earlier a friend and fellow member of Brooks 's , Cyril Salmon , a former Lord Justice of Appeal , had put my name down for election to the Seniors Golfing Society , an English-based club for golfers over the age of fifty-five who met from time to time at a variety of attractive courses . |
| 10 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 11 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 12 | It is clear from data on occupations drawn from the decennial censuses that retirement for men over the age of 65 was increasing from 1881 , almost thirty years before the introduction of a state pension ; and modern evidence from the United States gives good grounds for believing that , in some circumstances at least , changes in retirement age over time represent a supply-side factor , with people choosing retirement before they become incapable of work . |
| 13 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 14 | The small resort village of Fluelen at the end of the lake was for centuries an important lake port and customs station where goods were trans-shipped from the lake to mule transport for carriage over the Gotthard . |
| 15 | ‘ Enterprise democracy ’ , as the decentralised aspect of the socialist control over production by the associated producers , will never be realised unless workers begin to struggle under capitalism for control over the policy and operations of enterprises , and this means exploiting rather than rejecting outright the kind of ‘ Industrial Democracy ’ proposals raised by the Bullock Commission , and more recently by the EEC . |
| 16 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 17 | The implication is that Saruman has been led from ethically neutral researches into the kind of wanton pollution and love of dirt we see in ‘ The Scouring of the Shire ’ by something corrupting in the love of machines or in the very desire for control over the natural world . |
| 18 | There is room for argument over the degree of monopolistic competition which is acceptable , but there is no serious challenge to the view that a substantial measure of concentration is a necessary feature of large areas of industry mainly because of the needs of technology and marketing . |
| 19 | Jamie 's father is helping to organise a protest group , which may yet take Thames Water to court for damages over the cryptosporidia contamination . |
| 20 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 21 | If he is to persuade his colleagues that he can win for the party , he will need to seize every available chance for exposure over the next two , three , or even four years . |
| 22 | Edward agreed to renounce his claim to the French crown , while John was to abandon his demand for sovereignty over the lands ceded to the English . |
| 23 | The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales has told the Welsh Office that its plan to meet a near doubling of demand for aggregates over the next 20 years , will cause irrevocable harm to many areas of Wales ( 1 ) . |
| 24 | In its recent report , it said that the White Paper ’ contains no hint of the Government 's financial strategy for defence over the coming decade . ’ |
| 25 | The marked improvement in the terms of trade for Britain over the early '50s permitted a rise in real wages despite a decline in Britain 's exports , while a substantial inflow of American direct private investment helped to boost capital accumulation . |
| 26 | Further , at the ‘ macroeconomic ’ level , the fiscal and monetary management of aggregate demand gradually displaced physical planning as the favoured mechanism for control over the economy ( this shift is charted quite precisely by Budd , 1978 ) . |
| 27 | Although Cold War ideology and initial public ignorance in the West of the horrific power of nuclear weapons at first muted the public pressures behind a renewed expression of the unacceptability of indiscriminate means of warfare , the growth of the popular movement for peace over the past twenty-five years and especially in its recent phase must now lead to a reaffirmation of the principle and its application to nuclear weapons . |
| 28 | Holidays can make a big hole in your savings so we offer a 5% discount for clients over the age of 60 on the date of departure . |
| 29 | She told me more or less the same story as Eric — that they are reserving double the usual amount of space for Jefferson over the second half of the year . ’ |
| 30 | The project aims to rectify this omission for England over the period 1650-1914 by the construction of national rent index , and then to investigate two further problems : a regional breakdown of the index to see of there was a space-related differentiated land market ; and secondly to focus attention on three periods of outstanding agricultural depression within the long run to see whether there was a time-related differentiation . |