Example sentences of "from [noun] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both crises arose from discontent over the financing of the war , but it is perhaps a measure of the king 's failing powers that whereas in 1340–1 the lead in attacking his ministers had been taken by the king himself , the initiative now rested with a group of lay nobles , chief amongst whom , if some of the chroniclers are to be believed , was the young Earl of Pembroke . |
| 2 | The rules against bias work reasonably well apart from confusion over the test for establishing bias , and happily there are few reported cases upon the subject and most of these are not ‘ heinous . ’ |
| 3 | The story goes so far as to suggest that Hewlett-Packard threatened to resign from OSF over the pace of development but changed its mind . |
| 4 | It must be all or nothing , ’ he declared , appealing to the American people from Korea over the President 's head . |
| 5 | The route crosses through agricultural land minimising land severance where possible , and is carried on embankment from Straiton over the Mineral Railway and Lasswade Road . |
| 6 | The ancient sandstone bridge at Bangor-on-Dee carries one-way traffic from Wrexham over the river and into the village but it has weathered badly in recent years possibly because of attack by acid rain . |
| 7 | Whereas the nineteenth-century state concerned itself with the common affairs of all capital owners , the growth of giant industrial corporations and of large financial combines has now led to the almost complete exclusion of other capitalist fractions from influence over the state . |
| 8 | Hepper Robinson in Middlesbrough is run by two managers , Alan and Stephen Brown , who are due to receive details of the MBO deal from RE over the weekend . |
| 9 | Under this system of economic production , even though a merchant class was able to find a niche for itself by providing loans and commodities for kings , princes and noble landowners , this class was largely excluded from control over the state , which was dominated by increasingly absolutist kings and their royal entourage of lords and nobles . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Latham later told the jury the prosecution had received new evidence from doctors over the weekend which had to be considered and the trial would be delayed . |
| 11 | Black & Decker suggest that the sheath should be filled with a mix of two parts paraffin to one part SAE 20 oil : this will both lubricate the blades and protect them from corrosion over the winter months . |
| 12 | In part , the impetus for reform came from concern over the efficiency of the long-established regulatory regimes and , in particular , a belief that many self-regulatory systems may have evolved into restrictive practices dressed up to be in the public interest . |
| 13 | Despite assurances from advisers over the confidentiality of information presented in the self-appraisal , it seems that most staff were unwilling to produce anything more than a public type of document , providing little more than factual information . |
| 14 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 15 | It follows a very sensible line which makes good use of the existing paths along Dere Street and the Minchmoor , the drove road from Peebles over the Cauldstane Slap to the Lothian plain , the towpaths of the Union and the Forth-Clyde canals , and the Antonine Wall . |
| 16 | The investigation will begin when details are received from Valenciennes over the allegation from defender Jacques Glassmann that he had been offered a bribe from a Marseille official to take it easy . |
| 17 | I wondered if this might have been from surprise over the fact that I could write , but it was just one of a fair catalogue of mannerisms he had to offer . |
| 18 | He and a friend had fled from Vienna over the border into Czechoslovakia . |