Example sentences of "[coord] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is the one-day national or regional stoppage over some aspect of management policy such as closures , or over support for another group of workers . |
| 2 | ( 2 ) The only interests or charges in or over land which are capable of subsisting or of being conveyed or created at law are — ( a ) An easement , right or privilege in or over land for an interest equivalent to an estate in fee simple absolute in possession or a term of years absolute ; ( b ) A rentcharge in possession issuing out of or charged on land being either perpetual or for a term of years absolute ; ( c ) A charge by way of legal mortgage ; ( d ) … any other similar charge on land which is not created by an instrument ; ( e ) Rights of entry exercisable over or in respect of a legal term of years absolute , or annexed , for any purpose , to a legal rentcharge . |
| 3 | In these conditions controversy over student fees or over interference by the authorities — be it with the freedom of speech of progressive professors , the content of the curriculum , or the right of students to form their own organizations — sparked lively protest . |
| 4 | Over the past two decades the resident population in Scottish mental hospitals fell by 20% but the proportion of residents aged 65 or over rose from 45% in 1970 to 66% by 1988 . |
| 5 | In United States law , for example , it is unclear whether a bank that relies solely on the CKR as its collateral can perfect a security interest in the goods , or whether having perfected its interest in the CKR it has priority over bona fide purchasers of the goods or over holders of purchase money security interests in the customer-buyer 's inventory . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It 's good to feel the firm ground underfoot after hours of trudging through flooded fields and over hedgerows in the darkness . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She is particularly concerned over the potentially-harmful ‘ particles ’ of sewage blown into gardens and over houses in very windy weather . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Up and over door with parking for two other vehicles , storage space . |
| 13 | A particularly common problem is that owners economise on expensive canned food and over feed with mixer and biscuits . |
| 14 | His mother believes his death was brought on by lack of proper care and over prescription of drugs with dangerous side effects . |
| 15 | He competed in handicaps and in weight-for-age races , and over distances from seven furlongs to two miles . |
| 16 | Centres are free to deliver modules in ways and over periods of time that best suit the needs and interests of students . |
| 17 | This momentum throughout the industry was difficult to halt and later in the 1970s with the second oil shock and over capacity of 40 per cent , an added pressure element came from a weak US dollar which allowed relatively cheap American products on to the market on this side of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | ‘ I want to see the correspondence between the European Commission and the Government over subsidies and over guarantees about the future of Rover 's activities and jobs , ’ Mr Brown said . |
| 19 | Go through gate on to sunken road and over stile on opposite bank . |
| 20 | Against this , the number of paupers aged 70 years and over rose from 54,539 to 80,404 . |
| 21 | One-third or more of the parents served by these intensive demonstration efforts maltreated their children while in treatment , and over one-half of the families served continued to be judged by staff as likely to mistreat their children following termination . |
| 22 | There have been fierce debates over the differences between objects as sign and as symbol , and over degrees of iconicity , most of which can be reduced to levels of abstraction involved in the process by which objects become vehicles of meaning ( see Lyons 1977 for survey ) . |
| 23 | Within a few hours the 126-member Slovene delegation walked out in protest over this defeat and over votes on amendments to the draft congress declaration , which had thereby rejected clear commitments to human rights and to closer ties with West European organizations . |
| 24 | Here the different ways of seeing ‘ women in film ’ , especially in the controversies over realism , over documentary film-making , over the gaze and over representations of sexuality , converged , for once , in the serious questions those four women asked about the feminist film debate which I have outlined above . |
| 25 | While persecution varies in intensity from country to country and over time within one country , I can think of no Marxist-Leninist government which has not as a matter of official policy harassed , discriminated against and persecuted religious minorities . |
| 26 | Once a school has a delegated budget governors have discretion over the award of incentive allowances to teachers and over acceleration up the main scale . |
| 27 | The Extraditables were seeking to force concessions from the government over a 1984 extradition treaty with the United States and over policy towards convicted traffickers [ for releases or killings of five hostages since January 1991 see pp. 37957 ; 38001 ] . |
| 28 | He suffered over evidence that he had links with former communists and the secret police ; over criticism of his ambiguous prescriptions for economic recovery ; and over ridicule of his claims that he had had mystical experiences . |
| 29 | The debate is over the issues of theory appraisal and theory choice and over ways of demarcating science from non-science . |
| 30 | Concern over the dangers of nuclear war — and over fall-out from nuclear tests — was adding to the strength of anti-American feeling among highly vocal sections of British opinion . |