Example sentences of "be [noun sg] over the [adj] " in BNC.

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1	The changing role of the governing body was also perceived as a key issue : as one head put it , ‘ There could be conflict over the next ten years as the governing bodies try to claim their legal rights and powers from the professionals . ’
2	Second , there has been concern over the appropriate speeds for traffic in calmed areas .
3	Haughey told the conference that Fianna Fáil 's aim over the next decade was to create a new , enlightened , open , Irish society .
4	There is outrage over the five-year terms on Duncan Bond , 35 , a builder and father of three from Harleston , Norfolk , and Mark Chapman , 29 , an engineer from Horham , Suffolk .
5	For Johnson the basis for differentiation between occupations is control over the producer-consumer relationship .
6	That there is concern over the indifferent public image of the legal profession is evident — other agencies place varying degrees of emphasis upon different features of their reputation , some stressing their independence , others their approachability .
7	Indeed , while there is concern over the long-term effects of population losses from northern regions of Britain , in some circles there appears to be even more anxiety about the failure of migration to produce a speedier matching of workers to jobs ( Department of Employment , 1986 ; Minford , 1985 ) .
8	There is controversy over the precise location of the true oesophagogastric junction or ‘ cardia ’ in patients with reflux oesophagitis .
9	Finally … there 's doubt over the cricketing future ofGloucestershire fast bowler David Lawrence … he 's fractured his knee again
10	Similar divisions among the nobility , and the confusion into which it seems to have thrown the English leaders , might well explain why national armies were raised infrequently and achieved little , especially if there was dispute over the best policy to adopt , for reasons of the sort outlined above .

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