Example sentences of "of [noun sg] by [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts by the city council to force him from office had proved unsuccessful , and the process had been complicated by frequent changes of mind by Gates over when and whether he was willing to step down . |
| 2 | One consequence of this has been a distrust of geometric intuition and the downgrading of geometry by educationalists over the past 50 years or so . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 ’ . |
| 4 | Technological innovation is the source of many manufacturing processes which produce harmful pollutants , of products which cause great harm in themselves and of processes which permit immense powers of control by governments over individuals . |
| 5 | 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 . |