Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In this sense all that review over findings of fact means is that the court will decide what meaning the particular statutory provision should bear .
2 Interactivity in an information system gives the user some influence over access to the information and a degree of control over the outcomes of using the system .
3 A warrior in the service of Cesare Borgia , he was stabbed to death in 1501 in a quarrel with another man over possession of a fancy Spanish shirt .
4 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
5 ( It is interesting , however , that the tsar seems at first to have intended to give the college some jurisdiction over aspects of Russia 's internal administration ; and for a considerable time it did in fact handle quasi-internal issues such as relations with the Kalmuck tribes and with the Cossack hetman in the Ukraine .
6 If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 !
7 Meanwhile the German fighter pilots were making their own claims ; Lt.Willi Kothmann of I/JG 27 claimed one Hurricane at 1700 ( probably Ayre ) , the only claim to be made by pilots of this unit over Malta during 1941. 7/JG 26 then arrived and Fw .
8 The election was required by law , and if anyone thought it odd that there should be such trouble over elections to a chamber that now met only to ratify decisions taken elsewhere , then they kept the notion to themselves .
9 The FA is taking no action against either club over incidents in the ground .
10 That night over dinner in the company of Peter and his wife Liz I became the possessor of an astonishing fact .
11 He had told his wife that morning over breakfast in their bungalow on the edge of Barashevo and within faint sight of the outer wooden fence of Zone I , that he stood to gain a great prize … not tomorrow , not next week , but he had time , he had months of time to break this bastard .
12 To have that authority over members of the community one has to show , among other conditions imposed by the normal justification thesis , at the very least that members of the community on whom the scheme will impose some burdens have reason to contribute their share to the maintenance of the scheme .
13 Informalisation or permissiveness is seen as involving increasingly less regulation and less formality over rules of conduct , a relaxation in standards that seems at odds with the civilising movement identified by Elias .
14 Boys in particular seem to have more control over curricula with teachers making efforts to select materials that will interest them ( Shaw 1980 ) .
15 Hence storage at 37°C or 45°C represents correspondingly less acceleration over conditions to which the product is likely to be exposed in the market .
16 If they had been able to take more time over preparation of their findings and reasons the difficulties this court has faced on this appeal might not have arisen .
17 It seems , once again , that Sussex are the last in the queue , yet not the least indelible of the summer 's memories will be Franklyn Stephenson 's contribution to that win over Durham at Horsham .
18 Any excess over cost of replacement is credited to capital reserve or a specific asset replacement account .
19 Any excess over cost of replacement is credited to capital reserve or a specific asset replacement account .
20 The emir was not permitted to legislate , to appropriate land for public or commercial purposes , to exercise any control over aliens in his territory , or to appoint or depose his subordinate chiefs .
21 The reasons for the surrender of their own control over policy-making by west European nations in the 1950s remain unclear .
22 However , the two parties failed to come to any agreement over plans for the construction of autoroute A16 , linking Boulogne with Amiens .
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