Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In continuation of the policy of decentralization in progress over the past few years , Prime Minister Edith Cresson announced on Nov. 7 that the École Nationale d'Administration ( ENA ) , the elite civil service school , was to be transferred from Paris to Strasbourg by 2000 to strengthen links with Europe . |
| 2 | Embarrassed salesman Mr Drury , 34 , said : ‘ I have taken a lot of stick at work over this . |
| 3 | Of thunder of spring over distant mountains |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ I gather there has been a lot of soul-searching up north over the defeats for Linfield and Bangor — though Linfield now have a lifeline . |
| 6 | Mr Grant said that his association and its members had contributed quite a lot of money for advice over a number of years . |
| 7 | In order to compare the uptake of Ac-ASA with that of 5-ASA , the rate of uptake of Ac-ASA over one hour has to be derived . |
| 8 | BJP legislators yesterday walked out of parliament in protest over the arrests . |
| 9 | He added traders would be questioned on the effects of pedestrianisation on business over coming months . |
| 10 | However , the ‘ special relationship ’ that marked the Reagan and Bush years has gone and there is plenty of scope for disagreement over a packed agenda . |
| 11 | But though there is plenty of scope for debate over the details , such as whether God should appear in the preamble , there is consensus on many bigger points . |
| 12 | Accordingly , the major contribution of economics to policy over this period has been in providing some short-term corrections to economic activity whilst being able to do little to alter the long-term trend . |
| 13 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 14 | A testator had , before 13 July 1939 , an unlimited power of disposition by will over all his proprietary rights which survive him , including , since 1925 , an entailed interest in possession . |
| 15 | They redefined the role of the business head to that of CEO with control over all of his or her resources . |
| 16 | I put it in the barn in a seed tray with a piece of glass on top over the winter and the whole lot came up . |
| 17 | They range from the role of liturgy in art over studies of the mosaics in Ravenna to interpretations of early Netherlandish art . |
| 18 | In this kind of evaluation of change over time , it is argued that it is easier to attribute changes directly to the planned intervention , since it is unlikely that other experiences to which the child might be exposed would produce the same pattern of differential progress across different aspects of language . |
| 19 | Unfavourable circumstances encouraged strong orientation towards the present , not the future : a feeling of lack of control over events and a tendency to accept them passively . |
| 20 | Some of these richer families in the village were becoming entrepreneurial , while others still clung to the exercise of power through control over land . |