Example sentences of "[that] it [verb] [adj] [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
| 2 | America 's close association with Israel led to expectations that it enjoyed indirect control over the behaviour of the latter . |
| 3 | It is difficult to see , however , that it has any advantage over the leadership approach . |
| 4 | He found first that ROI was remarkably stable over time at the company level , but that it showed considerable variation over time for individual businesses ( i.e. the SBUs ) . |
| 5 | There were abortive attempts at a settlement by the American Secretary of State , General Alexander Haig , and discussions over a Peruvian peace plan which would bypass the British contention that it possessed sole sovereignty over the Falklands . |