Example sentences of "[noun pl] over [art] [noun pl] ['s] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His emphatic win gave Dunlop their second victory in two races and virtually erased any doubts over the tyres ' performance in the crucial rubber war . |
| 2 | Appeals over the nurses ' regrading are coming through with no extra cash to pay for them , and , ironically , in the Thames regions the slump in house prices has slowed staff turnover ; vacancy levels , which helped balance the books at the cost of quality and volume of service , are lower . |
| 3 | However , if we looked at the total costs of using the vehicles one could argue that by using reducing balance the repair costs in later life would be compensated by the additional depreciation in earlier years so achieving a matching of costs and revenues over the assets ' life . |
| 4 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 5 | In 1983 , Pilkingtons management bypassed stalled central negotiations to install new plant-specific negotiating procedures over the unions ' heads . |
| 6 | Contributions to the schemes are charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost of pensions over the employees ' working lives within the Group . |
| 7 | She and Jim talked together secretly about leaving the house and going off to somewhere ‘ more committed ’ , but Phoebe could not bring herself to give up the only home she knew of , could not bring herself to choose absolutely Jim 's commitments over the women 's commitments . |
| 8 | THE LIDs OVER the cannons ' eyes slid open as the pirogues approached ; the watch would have thought that he was only imagining the narrow prows breaking the black water , but the order had been given , ‘ Full alert ’ , and so the English sailor trusted his eyes and raised the alarm . |