Example sentences of "[noun sg] over a [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Control is widely defined as the ability to exercise a decisive influence over a company by any means . |
| 2 | Members of the housing committee of the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities were told of a complaint by Tweeddale District Council over a request by a tenant , who was exercising his right-to-buy for the first time , that his fiancee be included as a joint purchaser . |
| 3 | FEARS were voiced last night over a plan by the North-Eastern Co-Op to build a £9.5m superstore and housing development in Middlesbrough . |
| 4 | BBC bosses were reeling last night over a claim by The Sun that one of its employees was responsible for the leak . |
| 5 | When Thersites sees soldiers — we would have to change the modern parallel to those semi-pornographic animated cartoons like Ralph Bakshi 's Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat , or sado-masochistic literature — he sees a degraded struggle over a whore by men running with disease . |
| 6 | Nourse LJ then considered the authorities and decided that , contrary to the decision of the lower court , it was possible for someone , in contemplation of death , to give up dominion over a house by parting with title deeds — the essential indicia of title . |