Example sentences of "[noun sg] over [noun pl] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are people who can pull the wool over peoples ' eyes . |
| 2 | All three say the banks already have too much influence over students ' lives , and that loans will strengthen the hold . |
| 3 | A disagreement over patients ' preparation and post-operational recovery regime resulted in Daniel leaving his father in 1763 to set up on his own at Ingatestone , Essex . |
| 4 | Dismissal therapy … the use of drug tests has lead to a US legal battle over workers ' privacy rights PHOTOGRAPH : N. SAGANSKY |
| 5 | The Lord Chancellor 's concessions to the Bar over solicitors ' rights of audience are understandable but mistaken . |
| 6 | For over a decade he strode like a colossus over children 's TV , manfully climbing mountains , bravely jumping out of aeroplanes , ruggedly falling off bob-sleighs . |
| 7 | But why did the theories of feminism develop in response to them in the 1960s and not , say , in the 1930s when novelists cast an equally critical eye over women 's lives ? |
| 8 | It was characteristic of many teaching methods used with children experiencing learning difficulties during the 1970s and 1980s that they entailed more control by the teacher over children 's learning than was typical in mainstream classrooms ( Wood and Shears 1986 ) . |
| 9 | No conflict over auditors ' roles |
| 10 | The thunder with which this was greeted from the senior judiciary — every one a former barrister — forced the Lord Chancellor to produce his fudge : separate systems of accreditation with four senior judges given a veto over solicitors ' rights . |
| 11 | So the quiet , reserved , studious girl falls " head over heels ' in love with the most outrageous extrovert in the year ! |
| 12 | The most important right is the right of lien over guests ' property . |
| 13 | Drugs on the streets.Villagers anger over ravers ' invasion . |
| 14 | Thus wardship and the control over wards ' and widows ' marriages became increasingly important . |
| 15 | With ministerial support they could have more financial control over juniors ' posts and be responsible for verifying the information that units give to purchasers . |
| 16 | There were fierce disputes over the intelligentsia 's determination to exclude all but a token worker or two from their policy-making committees and to assert their own control over workers ' mutual support funds and the content of newspapers written for the workers . |
| 17 | Boys ' education is seen as likely to bring direct economic benefit to the family and so is given priority over girls ' education . |
| 18 | The theory of women 's arrested development was taken up in the debate over women 's inferior mental ability . |
| 19 | A woman who caused a row when she applied for a teaching job under a false identity has now joined the debate over children 's reading . |
| 20 | Fury over MPs ' pay |
| 21 | The lien of a solicitors ' firm over clients ' papers pending payment of its costs will not be lost by a change in membership so long as the papers have come into the firm 's possession before the change : they can not ( subject always to any specific arrangements with the client to the contrary ) lawfully be retained after such a change in respect of a debt falling due before that event . |
| 22 | Controversy over politicians ' links with StB |
| 23 | Controversy over politicians ' StB links |
| 24 | Controversy over politicians ' links with the StB centred during January and February on Bedrich Moldan , who was suspended as Czech Environment Minister on Jan. 7 and dismissed on Jan. 24 by the relevant Czech parliamentary commission ( being replaced on Feb. 20 by Ivan Dejmal ) . |
| 25 | TRACK promoters and bookmakers are locked in a bitter £3.5million dogfight over punters ' cash . |
| 26 | Even after the Equal Pay Act had effected some narrowing of the pay gap , there was an unexplained excess of men 's pay over women 's pay worth about 30 per cent of that received by the average 32-year-old female employee in early 1978 . |
| 27 | Youth tells of doubt over Royals ' future |
| 28 | However , this year the Speaker has also been reaching outside his Sacramento stronghold : convening an economic summit in Los Angeles to examine the state 's recession ; pushing laws to reform California 's hated workers'-compensation scheme ; leading a team of legislators to Washington to plead for the state 's interests ; putting himself forward as a mediator in a fractious dispute over teachers ' pay in Los Angeles . |
| 29 | In a final , ironic comment on what commentators now referred to as ‘ the British disease ’ , television coverage of the national celebration was severely disrupted by a dispute over technicians ' pay . |