Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disputes between the state and the peasantry over the use of common land are not confined to colonial societies . |
| 2 | Tikrit looked like any other Iraqi town , except that the streets were cleaner and the walkways over the road were equipped with escalators — though none were working . |
| 3 | The fall-out from the highly-charged display of white , predominantly Afrikaner , nationalism at Ellis Park , and the furore over the official playing of the ‘ Die Stem , ’ anthem contrary to the tour agreements , rapidly marginalised the achievements of Laurie Mains and his ‘ macho ’ crew . |
| 4 | Perhaps the only two successful threats of action were by the water-workers in 1983 and the NUM over the Coal Board 's threat to close uneconomic pits in January 1981 . |
| 5 | While there were periods of internal stress , notably the emergence of the various racial , Irish , and student troubles of the late sixties , and the concern over the alleged ‘ ungovernability ’ of the unions at the time of the ‘ winter of discontent ’ in the late seventies , Britain was a relatively stable society internally throughout these forty-four years . |
| 6 | The entire Market Place was underwater , and the road over the bridge was impassable from six in the morning until seven at night . |
| 7 | Therefore on one side we must assert the authority of the Bible over man and the Church , and not the authority of man and the Church over the Bible . |
| 8 | It is not particularly picturesque and the main road and the ferry over the Seine make it noisy . |
| 9 | Legal representatives for Nelson refused to comment on the visit from the Stevens team or to indicate whether Nelson has decided not to proceed with legal actions against both the Prison Service and the BBC over the use of extracts from his ‘ jail journal ’ in television programmes without his permission . |
| 10 | Regional and local variations in socio-economic characteristics , labour supply , age structure and ethnic composition , particularly relating to 1981 and the changes over the previous decade , are described by Champion et al . |
| 11 | I hope that the panel will feel that it has had as a result of the position statements before it , and the discussions over the last few days , sufficient information to decide whether to exclude certain sectors . |
| 12 | The differences between the two different estates and the limitations over the running of covenants in equitable leases are revealed , as indicated below , once T assigns his interest to T2 : |
| 13 | These are the skills , and the mastery over the material but he must also progress in his understanding and widen his experience by looking . |
| 14 | THE apparent squabble between the South African government and the ANC over the precise nature of their agreement on the immediate political future is more show than anything else . |
| 15 | She saw leaves of the last fall encased inside them and , yes , it was cold , but there was a fine frosty light , and the mist over the lake made her think of a stoat 's white fur . |
| 16 | Rolls-Royce and British Aerospace have also been feeling the slump in civil aviation : the hangover after a spending boom , the post-liberalisation troubles of the American airline industry and the hiccup over the Gulf war have all cut into demand for new aeroplanes . |
| 17 | He then deals with Cnut 's death , the grief of his subjects , and the quarrel over the succession . |
| 18 | Jones was also slammed by the FA and the PFA over the controversial film glorifying the dirty tricks in the game . |
| 19 | The plans then were delayed considerably whilst discussions were pursued with the Scottish Office and the Treasury over the financial details . |
| 20 | A notable early study of union growth which employed data relating to changes in general business conditions for France , Germany , England and the USA over the period from the 1890s to the 1930s was that of Davis ( 1941 ) . |
| 21 | The debate aimed at winning more control over policy , staff and top appointments has been fuelled by the row over the party 's policy on water privatisation and the question-mark over the shadow Scottish secretary , Tom Clarke . |
| 22 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 23 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 24 | Prefaces by Margherita Asso , Alvise Zorzi , and others outline the problems still facing Venice , especially the lack of detailed studies of the urban fabric and the stalemate over the mobile dams to be constructed in the lagoon . |
| 25 | However , India produces some very good quality rugs , particularly in Kashmir , and the trend over the last few years has been towards finer and finer items . |
| 26 | This means that the painting changes slightly when seen from different angles and the title over the central image flashes up in iridescent colours . |
| 27 | At the heart of the debate , and of the promotion of cigarettes to young people , is a crisis of confidence in the House and the country over the good will of the tobacco industry . |
| 28 | See we had a fire right in the middle of the cabin and I used to chuck this here er flock mattress on the table and the blankets over the old flock pillow and go to sleep that way . |
| 29 | The first is to use the blackboard approach described above [ Erman , 1975 ] , but this is criticised as having serious implementational problems relating to the format of entries on the blackboard and the control over the resources that should be available to each component . |
| 30 | The meeting of the Great Hural came after a period of tension between the government and the opposition over the pace of reform . |