Example sentences of "over a [noun sg] 's [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents say they 're furious over a school 's decision to allow its older pupils to smoke . |
| 2 | Clearly , there were points at which the link person or the DCSL could exercise considerable power over a school 's proposal , but it is the evaluators ' impression that this power was not abused . |
| 3 | Though Marje believed that Phillip was living a bachelor life at a London hotel between trysts with her , he spent some of the time , at least , with Meli in her apartment over a hairdresser 's shop and a prostitute 's flat in London 's Kensington . |
| 4 | ‘ Charge , ’ ‘ security ’ or ‘ security interest ’ will be used interchangeably in the sense in which charge is defined in the Companies Act 1985 , namely as any form of security , fixed or floating , over a company 's property present or future . |
| 5 | In his left hand he held a pocket Philips dictaphone into which he would occasionally confide ; in his right , a pencil poised over a reporter 's pad . |
| 6 | Residents are angry over a developer 's bid to challenge a DoE proposal — contained in the Newtownabbey Area Plan |
| 7 | In that case , Mrs. or Miss Savage emptied a beer glass over a person 's head , the glass went with the beer and the person was hurt . |
| 8 | This leads on to a third aspect — the redistributive effect over a person 's lifetime , rather than just in the current period . |
| 9 | 4 Entry The right for the Tenant and all persons expressly or by implication authorised by the Tenant to enter upon other parts of the Centre and ( if any ) the Adjoining Property to carry out works to the Premises where such works would otherwise not be possible , or may be possible but rendered more expensive than they would otherwise be if this right was available The problem of access over a neighbour 's land has been greatly alleviated by the passage of the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 which sets out a procedure whereby a person may obtain a court order permitting access to a neighbour 's property in order to carry out works to protect , repair or maintain their property in circumstances where the neighbour refuses consent to such access . |
| 10 | Front running involves a broker/dealer using his control over a customer 's order to deal ahead of that order for his own benefit . |
| 11 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 12 | No memorial was raised over a pauper 's grave . |
| 13 | One policeman from an area outside Easton once stated that he had ‘ sort of fixed it ’ for a lorry driver who had run over a lady 's leg because ‘ the lady was n't very nice but the lorry driver was dead on ’ ( FN 22/2/87 , p. 1 ) . |
| 14 | An innkeeper , as we have seen , is under a duty to provide reasonable refreshment if so required and accommodation to a traveller ; hence , the innkeeper has a right of lien over a traveller 's property as well as over a guests ' to ensure that the traveller 's bill is duly paid . |
| 15 | The Scottish Typographical Circular for instance rather specialized in joke articles over a woman 's signature which are obviously not by a woman at all . |
| 16 | On Minoan pottery , the double-axe is sometimes painted over a bull 's head . |
| 17 | ‘ I certainly did n't need my boss , Tim Dunton , informing me that when I reach the ripe old age of twenty-six , in just over a month 's time , it 's going to be definitely downhill all the way ! ’ |
| 18 | Using this analogy , the sonnet looks to gain power over a youth 's beauty by arguing that showy flowers merely fade but true scented roses in their death are distilled into perfume which become , paradoxically , their sweetest moment as roses : |