Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] over [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the salon where they were all sitting after dinner over glasses of brandy and half-finished cups of coffee , the first courageous guest rose to his feet and bowed with a smile to the lady of the house . |
| 2 | Free Speech 3 : No cause for panic over risks on site |
| 3 | The Bar Conference : Donaldson sets the tone for battle over rights of audience |
| 4 | Unions are hoping it could persuade one company to have a change of heart over plans for a pay freeze for some of it 's workers . |
| 5 | It is necessary to keep distinct two issues which can arise under the general rubric of review over findings of fact . |
| 6 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 7 | The Estonian parliament agreed to postpone discussion of provisions of its election law amid disagreement over demands by Russians for a second chamber to represent local minorities . |
| 8 | And here I am , Kate thinks , sitting opposite you and thinking there 's more distance between us in terms of class and sex awareness than a million years of chat over drinks at six dollars a go on the Oriental Hotel terrace could ever hope to bridge . |
| 9 | Chronology is one of the cornerstones of geomorphology , and researchers are urged to balance their studies of present geomorphic processes by an appreciation of rates of work over timescales of 10 4 — 10 6 years . |
| 10 | The director of the prison was dismissed on July 24 and on the same day the Acting Commander of the Air Force , Gen. Hernando Monsalve , requested an immediate transfer , having been accused of incompetence over operations at the prison . |
| 11 | The latter , s.92(1) ( f ) , a sweeping up provision , would include , for example , ‘ any pond , pool , ditch , gutter or watercourse prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ , designated a statutory nuisance by s.259(1) ( a ) , and under s.101 certain smoke nuisances , the Clean Air Act 1956 having introduced a new system of control over emissions from chimneys but retained certain emissions as statutory nuisances subject to the control of the 1936 Act . |
| 12 | The main advantage of elicitation procedures is that they give a relatively high degree of control over areas of linguistic ability which are being assessed . |
| 13 | In an interview with Pravda in March 1979 , the Iranian Minister of Information and Propaganda drew attention to measures such as ‘ the establishment of control over bases from which the Pentagon was carrying out electronic intelligence observations of the territory of the Soviet Union , the termination of the services of American military advisers in the armed forces , and a sharp cutback in the military budget ’ . |
| 14 | And the Western experience of sex , he argues , is not the inhibition of discourse , is not describable as a regime of silence , but is rather a constant , and historically changing , deployment of discourses on sex , and this ever-expanding discursive explosion is part of a complex growth of control over individuals through the apparatus of sexuality . |
| 15 | They feared that to alienate the Grand Prince , who had a wide measure of control over appointments to the hierarchy , would leave them vulnerable to the intellectual vigour of the ‘ heresy ’ . |
| 16 | Mr Robert Mayor was n't too sure how he would vote in a council election , because of concern over reports of overspending by the hung Wirral authority and the effect on the poll tax . |
| 17 | Lack of sensitivity over needs of black children |
| 18 | The new permissive society differs from its Victorian predecessor not only by virtue of its sexual and moral freedom , but also because it is characterised by lack of agreement over questions of morality , and over the role of the state in the enforcement of morals . |
| 19 | A central theme is that the ‘ transmission ’ of state objectives to the enterprises is problematic , and that this gives rise to typical patterns of negotiation over changes in business strategy and in industrial relations . |
| 20 | Further , some men play out their fantasies of power over women through their sexuality in the form of rape , sexual harassment and other forms of sexual molestation of women . |
| 21 | an application to register a charge out of time over assets of the company will normally be refused . |
| 22 | Regular workers appear to cooperate much more with management over changes in work practices , job allocation , retraining or transfers to related companies . |
| 23 | UNION chiefs are seeking talks with management over redundancies at Mill Road Maternity Hospital . |
| 24 | But yesterday 's Virgin statement said : ‘ British Airways has sought from Virgin onerous and impractical undertakings including silence over matters of historical record . ’ |
| 25 | The first or these was through control over matters of taste . |
| 26 | The government was also in difficulty over payments on its foreign debt , estimated at US$6,000 million . |
| 27 | They range from the role of liturgy in art over studies of the mosaics in Ravenna to interpretations of early Netherlandish art . |
| 28 | Five pots of plants of the same age and grown under identical conditions were measured in turn over periods of fifteen to thirty minutes . |
| 29 | A Cotswold village is in turmoil over plans by the National Trust to develop a tourist attraction . |
| 30 | Despite a 1991 that saw her largely relieved of the pressure of the tabloid press charting a private life that was in turmoil over allegations against her father Peter ( since disproved ) , the last twelve months have brought her only limited satisfaction . |