Example sentences of "of [noun pl] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indictment of congressman — Issuing of subpoenas over Post Office scandal |
| 2 | The ending of the monopoly of solicitors over house sales conveyancing and of opticians over the sale of spectacles has already been noted . |
| 3 | From 1888 he served on the new Cumberland county council , opposing the construction of roads over Lakeland passes , reducing mining pollution , and organizing the proper signposting of footpaths . |
| 4 | The division between incomers and Shetlanders in Dunrossness seems to have been an immediate product of conflicts over land and housing , a consequence of some residential patterns in the area , an outcome of changes in the accepted rules in the ‘ status game ’ and , perhaps , an inevitable result of policy predictions . |
| 5 | The Director General at the French Foreign Office , Francois Scheer , held talks with government officials in Tehran on July 9-10 , and said that an agreement was expected within " a couple of weeks " ; he denied reports of disagreements over Iran 's access to uranium supplies and stressed that the difficulties been " technical " . |
| 6 | The UK Ministry of Defence ( MOD ) announced on Sept. 19 , 1989 , that , because of disagreements over specifications and delays in expected delivery dates , the UK was withdrawing from the NATO Frigate Replacement for the 1990s ( NFR90 ) project . |
| 7 | A new political force emerged in late 1990 as a result of disagreements over policy and coalition alliances in Sicily . |
| 8 | Mr Favell resigned as John Major 's official Commons aide when the Premier was Chancellor because of a clash of views over Europe . |
| 9 | Even amongst those organisms with well-coordinated nervous systems , a good case can be made for the dominance of beetles over mammals . |
| 10 | Although only eight of the 23 British Columbia players who went to the World Cup were on hand for the two games it was enough to see the host province safely through to championship no.23 by virtue of wins over Alberta — and that was a close call indeed — and NEWFOUNDLAND . |
| 11 | Any overall surplus of exports over imports would result from an excess of saving and a lack of consumption and investment within the economy . |
| 12 | Golfers , with bags of clubs over shoulders , boarded tramcars which would take them to many of the numerous golf-clubs in and around the city . |
| 13 | But despite the political war of words over tax , she found it hard to prepare new strategies because no party had said very much about VAT . |
| 14 | Sir David did not comment on Britain and China 's war of words over Hong Kong 's future , or Hong Kong 's recent differences with Peking over the Chinese swimmer , Yang Yang , who was allowed to leave Hong Kong for the United States . |
| 15 | As the war of words over November the seventh heats up , is changing the names of forty streets and metro stations back to their pre-revolutionary titles , just hours before the tanks rolled through Red Square for the traditional Revolution Day parade . |
| 16 | If , as seemed likely , one cause of unemployment was an excess of savings over investment , the equalisation of decisions to save and decisions to invest could be brought about by Labour 's plans for progressive taxation which would redistribute income to the poorer sections of society . |
| 17 | In mid-1991 labour relations deteriorated sharply with the sugarcane harvest once again delayed because of disputes over payments for the previous year 's crop . |
| 18 | The stress on mineral extraction has left the settlers ( now almost 10 million as was estimated early in 1982 ) in effect abandoned , and their fate is reported in terms of disputes over land , the sowing of their land with weed seeds from the air and even the poisoning of their drinking water . |
| 19 | A growing number of disputes over building contracts has inevitably led to more cases coming before the courts or arbitrators . |
| 20 | This was partly to save money ( since an ambassador had to live in a style and with an expense which was not expected of lesser mortals ) and partly to minimise the risk of quarrels over precedence . |
| 21 | This argument starts from a different point on the balance of payments circle , with the excess of imports over exports . |
| 22 | We require to clarify any inherent pattern that might be present in the variation of imports over time . |
| 23 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 24 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 25 | While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation . |
| 26 | For Firestone the alternative is to supplant Freudianism ( and , by extension , psychotherapy ) with an explicit acknowledgement of socially constructed and reproduced power ; especially power of men over women and power of parents over children . |
| 27 | This refers to the conditions which work to maintain the cohesion of classes over time , from one generation to the next . |
| 28 | Because the faculty receives an excess of applications over places available , having the grades listed in the table of course requirements does not mean that a place will necessarily be offered . |
| 29 | Bourdieu , though less witty and stylish , achieves a large number of advances over Veblen 's account in terms of the sophistication of his analysis and his ability to move this critique away from the characterization of a particular segment of the population to the analysis of French society as a whole , and from simple emulation and display to complex forces of strategy and social reproduction . |
| 30 | This will have a wide range of powers over health , education and housing and over significant aspects of industrial and economic policy ’ . |