Example sentences of "of [v-ing] [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As before there were considerations of restricting overall investment to physical availability of materials , and of maintaining leverage over the nationalised industries as part of Keynesian demand management in the economy ( allowing greater expenditure when a slump threatened and reining it in when the economy appeared to be overheating ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it would seem sensible to say that , given a set of firms in a perfectly competitive market , some of which ( perhaps because of a more concentrated distribution of shares ) face quite tight constraints on their efficiency , these relatively efficient firms are likely to provide some form of policing function over the others . |
| 3 | Bankers have warned of ballooning costs over the 18 years it would take to build . |
| 4 | For the employers , however , the ‘ new technology ’ was a means of re-establishing control over the industry and of driving it into profit . |
| 5 | This is a vital part of retaining control over the finances of the business . |
| 6 | Alarmed by the sense of losing control over the sprawling Empire , the government moved further and further away from the spirit of the ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats . |
| 7 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 8 | PRESIDENT Boris Yeltsin called on parliament yesterday to sack its chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , while Mr Khasbulatov accused the president of playing games over the fate of Russia . |
| 9 | COPING AWARD : a local laundry has offered Mrs J vouchers to cover fifty per cent of the cost of washing bed-linen over the next six months . ’ |
| 10 | One general problem of socialism is to find a satisfactory mode of institutionalising conflict over the allocation of resources within the context of planning , and minimising the antagonisms it could generate . |
| 11 | Reports in December spoke of mounting concern over the effects of UN sanctions following government claims that up to 80,000 Iraqi children had died as a result of severe shortages in food and medicines . |
| 12 | The tank was gently filled , but not to the top — there would be a danger of slopping water over the floor when adding the bogwood and plants . |