Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun sg] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look at the lists of sportsmen and women beside this voting form and from each category pick the person you believe has been the top performer in his or her sport over the past 12 months . |
| 2 | Although this is not so good as the quick sponge or madeira cake for cutting and shaping , it is ideal for the simpler shaped fantasy cakes and its advantage over the quick sponge is that it is lighter . |
| 3 | Like their opponents , these anti-Nazis had stressed Europe 's cultural heritage ( rather as Germany 's 19th-century philosophers had stressed Germany 's culture and its superiority over the French ) and sought to use this as a political model . |
| 4 | Indeed it had been the combination of Rowthorne 's suggestion and her fury over the pin-up issue which saw her on to the editorial board . |
| 5 | Latimer and Neville were probably the dominant figures at court between 1369 and 1376 , and their influence over the king may well have been greater than that of John of Gaunt and his brothers . |
| 6 | If Artai 's reign was marked by disaster or excess they would be able to claim that they were not responsible , and their influence over the affairs of the Khanate would not be diminished . |
| 7 | This provocative thesis , very much connected with the questions of the transnational capitalist class discussed above , and their influence over the popular masses in developing countries , lies at the centre of the debate over the economic , political and cultural-ideological TNPs in developing countries . |
| 8 | The judges have repeatedly rejected the introduction of written briefs into English civil procedure , but Sir John Donaldson 's proposals and their development over the past five years are a step in the direction of a written stage in appellate procedure , despite the somewhat ambivalent caveat added at the end of the Practice Note : |
| 9 | Yet the bottlenecks in the industry 's own programme were identified , one by one , and their control over the manufacturers was gradually increased . |
| 10 | Although repulsed time and time again , Skarsnik 's power continues to grow even today , and his grip over the mountains around Karak Eight Peaks is just as tight . |
| 11 | But I would not be true to myself if I did not record my own thanks to all who serve on the Board for their hard and devoted work and at this time , to take a moment to thank the retiring vice convenor Bill for his work , his prayers , his support , his wisdom and his fellowship over the many years that he and I have served together . |
| 12 | Given his hard-line views — in particular his anti-Spanish outlook , his personal hostility to Mary 's chief religious adviser , Cardinal Pole , and his inflexibility over the issue of ecclesiastical property-it was only a matter of time before relations between England and the Holy See foundered . |
| 13 | He may be taught to hold it with the crook of the handle turned away from him , and his thumb over the top of the handle , so that he does not grip the stick too hard . |
| 14 | For Marduk was not the most ancient of the gods , and his lordship over the other gods was meant to justify the political supremacy that Babylon had acquired . |
| 15 | A Catholic accepted the doctrines taught by his bishop and his authority over the pattern of his moral and his cultic behaviour . |
| 16 | De Gaulle 's known views — fashioned by his interpretation of the collapse of France in 1940 and his resentment over the refusal of Britain and the United States to treat him as an equal in prosecuting the war effort , on the failings of the Fourth Republic , on reforming NATO , on the need for France to acquire greater international prestige , along with his ambition to affect a lasting reconciliation between France and West Germany ( ideally on French terms ) — all influenced his decision to terminate the Maudling Committee negotiations , and all were still influential in his rejection a few years later of the British application to enter the EEC . |
| 17 | ‘ History was the space in which the drama of individual and social life unfolded according to the purpose of Yahweh , and cosmic time simply attested to the works of Yahweh and His power over the universe . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm going to bring in some illuminated medieval books for you to have a look at , because what you 're going to do is to write this out in best on special paper using illuminated letters and if you 're very good we will try to get them laminated so that we can keep them as an example of what year seven students can produce as their best work , to say to everybody , hey look at this , this is very good , now we ca n't do that if I give you a sheet of A four paper and you manage to fill less than a quarter of that space , so you 're going to need a minimum of ten different things that you would like to say you think are important , you believe are important , you believe they 're valuable and your homework over the next week is to finish that list if you want it to rhyme , well yes you can work on it to make it rhyme , if you want to have what we call rhyming couplet , er just one moment I have n't said clear away . |
| 19 | But her annoyance over the pictures could not distract Catherine from her latest — and biggest — ambition . |
| 20 | Farr-Jones has not only proven himself to be the world 's leading scrum-half , but his captaincy over the past four years has grown in maturity and stature with each test and tour match . |
| 21 | The data we have at the moment suggest that we should reach our targets about 80% of the time , but our aim over the years will be not only to reach the targets in a higher proportion of cases but also to make the targets more difficult . |