Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [noun sg] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full significance of this fleeting moment is only evident when the letter page of HBR reveals a bitter contest over screen design between American Airlines , the developers of the system , and trans Atlantic competitors ; ‘ a chief legal officer of a major international airline … had just been involved in a long , rancorous struggle to get its non stop flight from Europe to the United States off the 23rd of SABRE 's 23 possible screens ’ ( HBR , July-August 1990 : 176 ) . |
| 2 | Work in both the European Parliament and the European Commission was disrupted in June and July 1991 by sporadic industrial action over pay levels for full-time employees . |
| 3 | Conflicting statements by banking officials on Aug. 10 and 11 caused confusion over government policy towards loans for Taiwanese business projects in China . |
| 4 | ‘ The results for Essex show no sign of increased optimism over job prospects in the region over the past year , ’ he said . |
| 5 | No relaxing by the pool or light lunch over Football Focus for my lads . |
| 6 | But even those who are reasonably secure financially often experience more anxiety over money matters in old age than at any other time in their life . |
| 7 | Tories join outcry over VAT charge on heating |
| 8 | The US is hardly lily white in the battle over chip imports into Japan , and Japanese chip users say that their US suppliers have been cancelling deliveries in favour of US customers even as they complain about the difficulty of penetrating the market , according to Electronic Industries Association of Japan . |
| 9 | Backbench protests and revolts have , however , tended to increase in recent years , reflecting the changing background of MPs , and growing divisions of opinion over policy issues within parties ( see Norton , 1985 , pp. 23–81 ) . |
| 10 | The government on June 5 , 1990 , invoked state of emergency legislation [ see p. 37175 for renewal of state of emergency in January 1990 ] on June 5 , banning strikes in essential services in order to break a two-week strike by non-graduate teachers which had closed virtually all state-run schools , and in response to mounting industrial unrest over pay levels in the public sector . |
| 11 | Ford management chalked up its most significant coup over working practices in 1985 when 500 job titles were reduced to 58 . |
| 12 | This will be followed by a consideration of recent developments in relation to the provision of land for housing on the one hand , and conflict over land use between industry and non-industrial uses on the other . |
| 13 | It called for the development of solar rural electrification programmes in the South , particularly Africa , and for the expansion of solar power in the Middle East , as a means of preventing possible conflict over water resources for hydro-electric power between Israel and her Arab neighbours or Turkey and Iraq . |
| 14 | International : Kohl setback over poll swing to Right |
| 15 | What will need to be ascertained in relation to the outgoing partner is : ( 1 ) his profit share for the current year up to the cessation date , less any drawings made during the year ; ( 2 ) his balance on the firm 's capital account ; ( 3 ) his balance on the firm 's current account in respect of undrawn profits from earlier years ; and ( 4 ) his entitlement to a share in the surplus partnership assets , that is to say , in particular , goodwill , work in progress and the excess over book values of other assets . |
| 16 | There was no fluke about his comfortable victory over Wonder Man at Nottingham , and he had previously recorded a top-class performance for a novice when beating Deep Sensation and other experienced handicappers in the Victor Chandler Chase at Ascot . |
| 17 | In February , just as Kurdish leaders were predicting a final Iranian offensive on all three fronts , the Kurds stepped up their pressure on what they perceived as Iraq 's weak spot in their own area , claiming a victory over government forces at Deeralok , near Amadyah . |
| 18 | Flooring : Contract Excel vinyl sheet flooring has an all- over crackle design with a random sprinkling of silver dust . |
| 19 | Now comes a suggestion that the city also had control over land use outside its environs , not in this case in the Maya area , but in wetlands near the modern port of Veracruz , west of the Yucatan Peninsula . |
| 20 | The mobility of capital , combined with the overriding demands for profit-making and profitability , severely limit the extent to which people 's innate needs for self-realisation at the workplace and their control over capital investment in the locality where they live can be satisfied . |
| 21 | The PRO 's attempts to work through DROs in order to gain control over computer records in government may be doomed to failure because of the latters ’ lack of clout and expertise . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the monopoly guaranteed the success of that particular policy of providing education , information and entertainment : the BBC had total control over broadcasting output in Britain . |
| 23 | And one institutional point in this context : it would be crucial in any socialist investment planning project to bypass the control over state finances on the part of the Treasury . |
| 24 | Reports suggested that the latest round of talks , attended by the head of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan ( DPK ) , Masoud Barzani , and the leader of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan ( PUK ) , Jalal Talabani , reflected a hardening of Kurdish demands including the incorporation of 80 per cent of historically Kurdish areas into an autonomous Kurdish zone and Kurdish control over security forces in these areas . |
| 25 | What the different groups all have in common is their control over production processes in the economy and over the labour of a number of subordinates . |
| 26 | They punished Western support for the Israeli side with a massive price hike , and effectively maintained their control over world prices for almost a decade . |
| 27 | We failed to offer proposals that could have been equally appealing but more constructive — such as more control over lifetime contributions to pension funds , greater stakes in enterprises through measures like employee share plans , more extensive rights as employees . |
| 28 | ( The Supply of Goods ( Implied Terms ) Act 1973 , which introduced statutory control over exclusion clauses in sale contracts did make certain clauses " void " , and there are provisions making contract terms " void " in other legislation , such as the Consumer Credit Act 1974 . ) |
| 29 | Legent , he said , has a head start over Computer Associates in this respect . |
| 30 | Europe 's struggle over state subsidies to steel makers continues . |