Example sentences of "[coord] over [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Their appellate jurisdiction was also extended , presumably by agreement between the Inns and the judges , to issues relating to disputes over property within the Inns : Rakestraw v. Brewer ( 1728 ) 2 P.Wms. 511 , or over elections in the Inns : Inner Temple v. Ince ( 1677 ) 3 Keble 835 , or over debts due to the Inns : Levinz v. Randolph ( 1700 ) 1 Ld.Raym. 594 , which could not by any stretch of the imagination relate to the duties of judges in relation to the administration of justice in their courts .
32 When they say to you ‘ oh well , you know , surely you do n't mind a little bit of flirtation and so on ’ I think very often that 's an entirely mendacious reply , that they know perfectly well what you 're talking about when you talk about sexual harassment , and in the context of discussions in the SCR or over dinner , they simply do n't want to have to deal with it and so they will dismiss it by way of saying ‘ well , you know , I 'm only being chivalrous , or this is the way I was brought up ’ .
33 There are one or two places , however , where both are led either through or over bulkheads and not protected sufficiently against chafe .
34 The cut is the figure under or over par that determines who qualifies for the final two rounds of a tournament .
35 Learning disability and mental disorder , among other adverse conditions , have also been associated with mother 's age of birth of child , the affected more often having mothers who were under age 20 or over age 39 at their birth .
36 The problem was the wasted thirty two weeks between the Edinburgh summit and the introduction of the bill , a delay caused entirely for party political reasons , the Conservative splits over Europe in general and over Maastricht in particular .
37 The road , such as it was , had come to an end and the last twelve miles to our destination were strictly four-wheel drive through yard-deep mud , and over streams alarmingly bridged with thick bamboo trunks simply laid next to each other , so that they separated between our wheels if we took them at anything less than a rush .
38 Christopher jerked back and kicked , and the bowl of water spilt into the chair , over his legs and over Alan .
39 He flew Willi Messerschmitt 's masterpiece , the 109 , in the Norwegian campaign , and over France , Belgium and Holland , while fitting in some high-level photo reconnaissance over England in a modified 110 .
40 In 1983 , the 65 and over age-group represented 15 per cent of the population , compared with 5 per cent in 1901 .
41 It 's good to feel the firm ground underfoot after hours of trudging through flooded fields and over hedgerows in the darkness .
42 And still the faint red light up ahead came and went by fits and starts , leading them on across gale-swept open moorland , through massively still pine forests , up exposed dirt tracks and over passes whose names had vanished with the inhabitants of the farms where until a few decades earlier generation after generation of human beings had eked out lives of almost unimaginable deprivation .
43 They had been wrongfooted by the new ruling on bouncers , which places a limit of one per over per batsman ( and over shoulder height ) .
44 One major American aim at the conference had been to limit the power of the Japanese , who since their victories over China in 1895 and over Russia in 1905 , had made increasing demands on China .
45 She is particularly concerned over the potentially-harmful ‘ particles ’ of sewage blown into gardens and over houses in very windy weather .
46 And , as elsewhere in Eastern Europe , the end of repression is accompanied by a surfeit of sleaze : strip-shows , nude pin-ups and over Easter a Miss Topless competition .
47 We were due to record a longish interview with her one afternoon , and over lunch at her favourite restaurant in Basil Street my producer Anthony Rouse and I both asked if there was any subject in her long life that she did not want touched upon .
48 There is conflict between departments , between hierarchies and over decisions that are made .
49 Thousands of doctors , nurses and other health workers also marched on Nov. 17 in protest at government restrictions on health service expenditure and over pay .
50 Of single size with metal up and over door .
51 Up and over door with parking for two other vehicles , storage space .
52 Those clays in fact go right across the hillside there , and they cause a lot of problems because they slope inland , and over Ritchie Hill , coming out of Newhaven , the road there is nearly always during the winter months broken by cracks which open up , and has in fact been subject to considerable reconstruction this last summer .
53 A particularly common problem is that owners economise on expensive canned food and over feed with mixer and biscuits .
54 A gaggle of Bonefish 's children were in constant , but changing , attendance , sometimes helping me , but more often chasing each other in a complicated game of tag up and over Masquerade 's hull .
55 One moment they seemed to be flying through and over mountains and the next they were skimming over a long , fertile valley , turning to come in with the wind and losing height steadily .
56 During the trip the tiny biplane swoops under storms and over mountains , across swamps , deserts , forests and the large expanse of the Great Plains , with the Author painting a vivid panorama of landscapes beneath him , from San Francisco 's Golden Gate Bridge to the Presidential Heads on Mount Rushmore .
57 His mother believes his death was brought on by lack of proper care and over prescription of drugs with dangerous side effects .
58 Trailed under the four-pointed flags by anxious English abbots , Pope Leo took time to ratify a bull defining the privileges of the great metropolitan church of Hamburg and Bremen over the Swedes , the Danes , the Finns , the Norwegians , and the Baltic Slavs , and over Orkney , Iceland , and Greenland , to take the place of the Pope in these regions , and to ordain bishops for them , as brought into the fold of Christ .
59 In pensive mood , I explored the Liffeyside Bohemia , stepping carefully around puddles and over cobbles , past closed bookshops and open recording studios .
60 Morale only picked up after the restart at the beginning of a 70-mile , three-day run and walk up and over Mount Chirripo .
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