Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Aha , ’ came Googol 's response over the radio , ‘ but you may say you are those same three people inside those suits … ’ |
| 2 | The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent . |
| 3 | But despite its video pictorial qualities , and its much vaunted ‘ personal ’ contact with party leaders , television 's advantage over the press in giving information about leaders was less than its advantage on issue-information . |
| 4 | The milk can had rolled under Agnes 's armchair and was dispersing a rivulet of goat 's milk over the carpet . |
| 5 | to be useful for teachers and parents and children to read as an informative and convincing story of the child 's progress over the years |
| 6 | The histone gene 's conservatism over the aeons is exceptional by genetic standards . |
| 7 | After playing catch-me-if-you-can for so long , it looks as though Sun Microsystems Inc is only going to get a month 's headstart over the pack of Sparc-compatible builders which will be gunning for its superscalar Sparcstation 10 market — if US firm Pinnacle Data Systems Inc , Columbus , Ohio , has its way . |
| 8 | For those of us who have admired Dury 's talent over the years , the main concern is whether he will ever recapture the charm , compassion and humour of his early recordings ( all recently reissued ) . |
| 9 | So I strewed the pieces of the Italian 's card over the cobblestones . |
| 10 | In this second example a teacher observes the child 's confusion over the invariance of number . |
| 11 | In this Egypt not only wished to remove the refugee problem as a political issue , but also to encourage Israel to deny the West Bank to Jordan , Egypt 's enemy over the fate of Palestine . |
| 12 | ‘ As for my father 's influence over the boy , I do believe you 're exaggerating , Beth . |
| 13 | William resented the mother 's influence over the heir presumptive , while the duchess asserted , not always successfully , her own and the princess 's position . |
| 14 | And the depth of his ideological commitment to maintaining Israel 's hold over the West Bank rules out any acceptance of the principle that negotiations should eventually lead to an exchange of land for peace . |
| 15 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , other GCC states , notably Oman , urged international arbitration while recognizing Qatar 's sovereignty over the Hawar islands and Fasht al-Dibal . |
| 17 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 18 | It was noted that the union 's actin over the redundancy issue should be used as an opportunity to push recruitment . |
| 19 | Yet even Peter 's ascendancy over the nobility must not be exaggerated . |
| 20 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |
| 21 | Lastly , to ensure everyone 's safety over the Christmas period , get an electrician to install a whole-house residual current device ( RCD ) next to your main fusebox . |
| 22 | But Labour 's lead over the SNP was 30 percentage points , a far cry from the four-point gap which separated them in January , in the wake of the nationalist victory at the Govan by-election . |
| 23 | Labour 's lead over the Conservatives increased to 9.5 points after its party conference and the rise in interest rates last week , according to a Gallup poll in today 's Daily Telegraph . |
| 24 | A nursery approached by separate staircase , and a groom 's room over the wash house . |
| 25 | After escaping relegation from the National League on Sunday with a 1–0 win over Ealing , the management team want changes made to the club 's infrastructure over the Summer . |
| 26 | Forfeiture , that is the right to end a lease before it determines naturally , is the landlord 's security over the property . |
| 27 | Furthermore , Curzon 's behaviour over the fall of the Coalition was fresh in men 's minds and had made him a lot of enemies and few friends . |
| 28 | I think the County Council 's behaviour over the Wheatley site is positively immoral . |
| 29 | If the situation requires quick action , there being no time to seek higher authority , the receptionist at an inn may detain the guest 's luggage ( not the guest himself or his vehicle ) and exercise the innkeeper 's lien over the guest 's property until the bill is paid in full . |
| 30 | President Yang Shangkun , as the new First Vice-Chairman of the CMC , emphasized the party 's leadership over the Army and political building within it by education in the Four Cardinal Principles ( the socialist system , the dictatorship of the proletariat , the leadership of the Communist Party and Marxism-Leninism and Mao Zedong Thought ) and by opposing bourgeois liberalization . |