Example sentences of "the [noun] [unc] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Griffith , is to head a West Indies Cricket Board of Control special committee to ‘ devise a strategic plan covering the Board 's operation over the next five years ’ . |
| 2 | For an established and successful brand , the objectives might well be , to a large extent , ‘ maintenance ’ objectives : to keep a high level of awareness of the brand , ideally as one of the first two in its field spontaneously named by respondents to a regular survey ( something often described in the US as ‘ share of mind ’ ) ; to maintain a high level of belief in the brand 's superiority over its main competitor on certain key attributes of the product type ; to encourage people to offer the product to their visitors . |
| 3 | In essence the courts ' control over the conditions of jurisdiction is premised upon the assumption that they are thereby effectuating the will of Parliament ; they are ensuring that the tribunal or authority remains within the boundaries of what Parliament intended it to examine by ensuring that those conditions are present . |
| 4 | The courts ' control over the exercise of administrative discretion is not new . |
| 5 | Upton Southern shed 5p to 40p in reaction to the chairman 's resignation over a policy disagreement . |
| 6 | Upton Southern shed 5p to 40p in reaction to the chairman 's resignation over a policy disagreement . |
| 7 | The full extent of the taxpayer 's liability over atomic energy has been flushed into the open because of accounting changes demanded by City analysts in the run-up to next year 's electricity privatisation . |
| 8 | Its proposals for granting devolved government to Scotland , with tax-raising powers , would enable Scottish Labour MPs to impose their will on England at Westminster , while the Union 's powers over Scotland would be greatly diminished . |
| 9 | Except that their role is more obscure to the public eye , the authorities ' influence over short-term interest rates is not very different from what it used to be when they announced an MLR each week and expected institutions to comply . |
| 10 | reconstructed the lakes ' history over their entire lifetime ( more than 10,000 years ) , and they compare the relative importance of the factors potentially responsible for acidification of surface waters . |
| 11 | Mrs Kennedy saluted the Echo 's action over gas fire deaths . |
| 12 | Mrs Kennedy saluted the Echo 's action over gas fire deaths . |
| 13 | The PLAYER comes forward and throws the spies ' cloaks over their bodies . |
| 14 | The director of the project , which employed 60 people near the Cornish town of Penryn , had claimed that " hot rock " energy could provide power to meet all the south-west 's requirements over the next 20 years . |
| 15 | Using this information it is possible to make a plot of the aircraft 's track over the ground when the necessary calibration and other corrections are made and allowance is made for the effect of wind on the flight path . |
| 16 | Two last points need to be made about Othello , the first concerning the hypocrite 's superiority over his dupes . |
| 17 | The progressive disengagement from extra-academic concerns , particularly at the level of cultural policy , is best revealed by the Review 's approach over this whole period to the study of language . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Conrad was well aware of the many facets of the word ‘ romance ’ — idealism towards women and events , the hero 's victory over extreme hazard , exotic details of place and circumstance . |
| 20 | Added to this is the perpetual insecurity reserve police suffer as a result of the management 's control over the renewal of their contract : and sergeants are not averse to using this as a threat in parades . |
| 21 | Significant opposition from the Miners ' Union over high cost capacity cuts , new escalation of anti-nuclear hostilities , worsening relations with the Soviet bloc : any of these factors could significantly affect West Germany 's energy future . |
| 22 | So important , in fact , that such a cloud would have had a braking effect on the Sun 's spin over aeons of time . |
| 23 | Parkinson and his colleagues pointed out that out of seven regular observers using the Royal Greenwich Observatory 's meridian circle since 1851 , five produced self-consistent observations of the Sun 's diameter over each of their periods as observer . |
| 24 | indicate the reason for the proposal 's superiority over other suggestions |
| 25 | The Honorary Secretary read the Minutes of the previous BGM and gave a report of the Committee 's activities over the past two years . |
| 26 | The ERM 's history over the past nine months makes it increasingly likely that monetary union , when it happens , will involve only a small group . |
| 27 | Similarly , if parents are able to have their views upheld ( as might occur on an appeal against a decision not to reinstate a permanently excluded pupil ) , ‘ it may not be clear whether it is primarily the child 's right or the parents ' rights over upbringing which is being upheld ’ . |
| 28 | The Conservatives ' advantage over Labour in the post-election survey is nearly double what it was in 1964 and treble what it was as recently as on Tuesday and Wednesday last week : 1964Wk 1Wk 2Wk 3Wk 4Now Conservatives ' best 45 45 43 44 45 52 Labour best 34 37 38 38 38 31 Con advantage+11 +8 +5 +6 +7+21 While the Tories were triumphing on the issues , they were also triumphing on the matter of personal leadership . |
| 29 | There is considerable evidence that markets are expecting a realignment following the Maastricht negotiations and that there will be downward pressure on sterling , testing the Chancellor 's resolve over interest rates . |
| 30 | Mr Mitterrand was put out by a whole series of German slights , culminating in the chancellor 's hesitations over Economic and Monetary Union before the European Community 's summit in December . |