Example sentences of "[vb base] [art] [noun sg] over [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It will take a fight , not merely a debate and the passing of time , to disarm the financial institutions and restructure the control over investment funds .
2 An attached shed to the south of the barn was demolished , and the architect , Timothy Bruce-Dick , decided to infill the gap between the barn and a range of cow-houses which existed to the north with a two-storey structure which would act as a covered link to this northern wing and provide a playroom over garages ( Fig 38 and Plate 4 ) .
3 Spread the mixture over chocolate and bake in oven at 400F or Gas Mark 5 until golden brown and set .
4 JAWG , which put the incident over Lincolnshire into the rare A Category of airmisses — in which there was a real risk of collision — said the Tornado would have hit the Piper if the pilot had not rolled left .
5 ITALY , Scotland 's World Cup rivals , must make do without gifted Juventus playmaker Roberto Baggio today when they seek a victory over Malta which would lift them to the top of the qualifying Group I.
6 Consider the dispute over fox hunting and suppose it agreed that the pleasure of men , hounds and perhaps horses , outweigh the pain of the fox .
7 TOP judges face an investigation over claims that they were members of a secret gay sex ring .
8 However , the nub of Sybase 's interest in the group is thought to be focused at what it can do to make its client/server technology more object-oriented and therefore steal a march over competitors like Oracle Corp and Informix Software .
9 will study these network relationships between firms and the extent to which they affect the competitiveness over time both of suppliers and customers .
10 er France has erm not a bad policy towards this , it 's er though half-heartedly , er nonetheless over a period of er perhaps since the war it 's had what I call a tick over policy of making quite sure that every year they do produce a bit , do produce a bit .
11 There was still no word from Jonna , though , which cast a blight over Annie 's mood .
12 Why did he say he would rather resign than do a deal over PR , unless he knew he would n't have to ?
13 Bus companies take the hump over plan to halt speeders
14 pull the wool over Josie 's eyes And I 've got
15 And this is where I feel they have the edge over Norrington .
16 The Pembertons clearly have the edge over others in the group , bearing much more bloom on long arching canes , and heavily scented .
17 Worcestershire started their second innings sixty-four ahead … and although Seymour fell early on — they definitely have the edge over Gloucestershire with two days left to play .
18 Here , again , the American East Coast resorts have the advantage over Europe in that they experience very low temperature during the winter months .
19 Solar panels have the advantage over wind generators of not having any moving parts and , provided they remain watertight , should be far more reliable .
20 Matrices of transition probabilities such as those given in the earlier examples are useful in that they summarize the behaviour over time of the system under study .
21 I mean Shakespeare did not , correct me if I 'm wrong , use words like fart and , certainly does n't use words like fuel gauge , have a leg over things like that , and things like , okay ?
22 I need a take over bid , yes , oh dear
23 Because firms have no discretion over prices but must passively accept the price prevailing in the market they have no ‘ market power ’ : they can make profits only at the level that justifies the continued employment of their assets in their existing use and are unable to effect a transfer of wealth from customers to themselves .
24 Employees can influence profit through productivity and customer-orientation , but have no control over idiot executives who invest in crazy schemes and could n't even market a doughnut .
25 Although this method fulfils the requirement that all animals are equally likely to be part of the study , we have no control over sample size ; if herd A is chosen then there will be 36 cattle in the study whereas for herd C there will be only 6 .
26 If Public Choice theory as a whole is based upon the concept of maximising budgets it may be the case that most officials have no control over budget allocation .
27 But the sub-text , wilfully suppressed , read , ‘ I 'm terrified that I have no control over events , over other people , over myself .
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