Example sentences of "court over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The actor John Thaw accepted a public apology and undisclosed libel damages in the High Court over allegations in the People in December 1988 about his behaviour while filming the TV series Inspector Morse . |
| 2 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 3 | Six in court over human torch girl |
| 4 | Walker Greenbank , the wall-covering group , has taken its former auditor , Arthur Young , to court over the firm 's failure to detect an alleged fraud in one of its subsidiaries . |
| 5 | For example , one group was drawn from a London housing estate where a high proportion of tenants have been taken to court over debt , so that it could easily get a bad name among local traders . |
| 6 | King Yul Brynner reached a stage in his career where he seemed to feel he was holding court over all else about him , whether British or American . |
| 7 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 8 | Groom 's parents take the bride 's parents to court over wedding bill |
| 9 | Pride of place went to an architect 's drawing of Carinish Court over the fireplace . |
| 10 | Sources believe Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over WABI , the Windows-on-Solaris software that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with x86 , the new Solaris-on-Intel operating system . |
| 11 | It already served a writ last week against Bull management to the Paris county court over the plan to close the headquarters office on Avenue Malakoff . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp may be preparing to take Sun Microsystems Inc to court over the WABI Windows Applications Binary Interface that SunSoft Inc is expected to bundle with Solaris x86 , the new Solaris-on-iAPX-86 operating system , sources tell our sister paper Unigram.X . |
| 13 | The guidance , while encouraging social workers to share information with clients about their needs , warns them against recording this on the assessment form because clients could go to court over any assessed needs which are not being met with services . |
| 14 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |
| 15 | The press were taken to court over publication of extracts from Spycatcher with its details of the adventures of the ‘ security ’ forces . |
| 16 | It also rests on their shared view of Parliament as ‘ the highest and greatest court over which none other can have jurisdiction in the kingdom ’ . |
| 17 | The issue of standards of evidence arises now because of a case just argued before the US Supreme Court over whether data do or do not support the allegation that a drug called Bendectin , once widely prescribed to prevent morning sickness in pregnant women , causes limb deformities in newborn babies . |
| 18 | The efficiency of the Magistrates ' courts , the tensions between the Probation Service and the Crown Court over social inquiry reports , and the need to widen opportunities for members of ethnic minorities , were examples of the kind of item which exercised officials in recent times . |
| 19 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 20 | ‘ Finally , there is the protection afforded by the supervisory , as opposed to appellate , jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitor . |
| 21 | ‘ Finally , there is the protection afforded by the supervisory , as opposed to appellate , jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitor . |
| 22 | There 's still the strong possibility you might find yourself in court over your actions this weekend , and I can tell you that judges take a poor view of women who imagine themselves potential victims . |
| 23 | LAW SOCIETY TAKES LORD CHANCELLOR TO COURT OVER LEGAL AID CUTS |
| 24 | The McGimpsey brothers hit the headlines when they took the Irish government to court over the Republic 's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | Boy ( 14 ) in court over Littlewoods store blaze |
| 26 | Also on Dec. 2 Baker announced that he was appealing to the House of Lords against an Appeal Court ruling of Nov. 29 which had declared him personally in contempt of court over his decision in May to cancel the return flight to the UK of a deported Zaïrean citizen , although a High Court judge had ordered a stay on the latter 's removal . |
| 27 | The Press and Information Ministry , rather than re-registering Izvestiya as the Supreme Soviet newspaper , on July 20 appealed to the Constitutional Court over the legality of the Supreme Soviet resolution . |
| 28 | The 70,000 strong South African Domestic Workers Union ( SADWU ) is encouraging its members to take their employers to court over unfair dismissals and low wages . |
| 29 | Things were helped by the fact that he was moving home again — this time to a flat in Farley Court over Baker Street station , close to the London Planetarium near Baker Street . |
| 30 | Texaco , the giant American oil company , is taking the Dutch government to court over its decision to build a conventional coal-fired power plant near to Rotterdam . |