Example sentences of "[noun] over [art] [noun pl] ['s] " 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 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 3 | Protest meetings had been held throughout Romania in July over the authorities ' refusal to release Munteanu and others detained since the violence in Bucharest on June 13-15 . |
| 4 | But as before , their influence over the voters ' mood ended well before the polling booth . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It seemed like a huge sword of Damocles hanging over the sprinters ' heads . |
| 8 | At the 2½ hour meeting , private shareholders raised persistent questions over the auditors ' and the directors ' actions . |
| 9 | ONE of Saddam Hussein 's henchmen yesterday launched a bitter personal attack on Premier John Major and President George Bush over the allies ' decision to send warplanes back to the Gulf . |
| 10 | The ECSC treaty created the High Authority as an executive institution , with control over the members ' coal and steel industries which would pursue common policies on prices , working conditions and the like . |
| 11 | An attempt to regain control over the peasants ' movement |
| 12 | But would it provide the same control over the politicians ' fiscal integrity ? |
| 13 | The Dutch sellers now relied upon a clause ( clause 13 ) in their contract of sale with the buyers and claimed therefore to have proprietary rights entitling them to have priority over the buyers ' other creditors . |
| 14 | The same year 1960 , saw the Pedler 's retire to live in the flat over the Ladies ' room , although Bill still involved himself helping his replacement — Derek Craik — who came as Assistant shortly before Bill 's retirement ( replacing Keith Mercer , an earlier assistant brought in on the crest of the membership boom ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Concern over the wholesalers ' order profiles , however , had been put on the company 's agenda some six months ago . |
| 17 | Indeed in the case of Bijlmermeer , there is concern over the residents ' increased fear of assault by assailants concealed in shrubbery close to walkways between the flat blocks , so that in future some vehicular access to some of the blocks is to be permitted , even though it undermines the integrity of the segregation principle . |
| 18 | The plan has provoked a fierce debate within France , with President Mitterrand 's wife , Danielle , leading the protest , and Environment Minister Brice Lalonde expressing concern over the bears ' fate . |
| 19 | In 1983 , Pilkingtons management bypassed stalled central negotiations to install new plant-specific negotiating procedures over the unions ' heads . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Contributions are charged to the profit and loss account in accordance with actuarial recommendations so as to spread the cost of pensions over the employees ' remaining working lives with the Group . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Had the Lebanese gunmen not been so enthusiastic in their celebrations , they might have noticed a small but symbolic incident which cast a shadow over the Syrians ' arrival . |
| 24 | She 's heartened by her win over the Americans ' No.2 Audra Keller , who also outranks her , on Wednesday . |
| 25 | She 's heartened by her win over the Americans ' No.2 Audra Keller , who also outranks her , on Wednesday . |
| 26 | Goodwill arising on consolidation before 1st April 1985 and arising after 1st April 1990 is amortised through the profit and loss account over the directors ' estimate of its useful economic life . |
| 27 | A United Kingdom Foreign Office Minister of state , Tristan Garel-Jones , announced in parliament on Nov. 22 that the British government had authorized the search for oil off the coast of the Falkland/Malvinas Islands , and issued a proclamation asserting British jurisdiction over the islands ' seabed and continental shelf . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A boy dangled a paper lantern over the dancers ' heads , a globe of pleated paper with a lit candle inside , bobbing at the end of a pole , a second moon . |