Example sentences of "[coord] the [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The entire Market Place was underwater , and the road over the bridge was impassable from six in the morning until seven at night . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is not particularly picturesque and the main road and the ferry over the Seine make it noisy . |
| 7 | These are the skills , and the mastery over the material but he must also progress in his understanding and widen his experience by looking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He then deals with Cnut 's death , the grief of his subjects , and the quarrel over the succession . |
| 11 | The plans then were delayed considerably whilst discussions were pursued with the Scottish Office and the Treasury over the financial details . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We reckoned there were at least 12,000 and the total over the weekend topped the 20,000 mark . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | This means that the painting changes slightly when seen from different angles and the title over the central image flashes up in iridescent colours . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The meeting of the Great Hural came after a period of tension between the government and the opposition over the pace of reform . |
| 21 | Sceptics might feel that they betrayed a lack of informed thought on the issue of objectives ; and certainly a good deal of the time of the economic planners , the Treasury , the Ministry and the industry over the following decades was to be devoted to the search for more meaningful objectives and standards of performance to supplement these minimal statutory requirements . |
| 22 | A ⅜in dowel is set in the ends and the partition over the vent hole and a small brass screw holds a leather washer on to the post to act as a stop . |
| 23 | Melissa recounted briefly the exchanges on the way to the belvedere and the altercation over the book . |
| 24 | First , the Bank of England has already returned to the gilt market as an issuer and the prospect over the next few years is one of a larger PSBR and gilt issuance . |
| 25 | And the injunction over the entrance to the ancient Athenian Academy , to know thyself , implies that it is possible , indeed easy , not to know thyself . |
| 26 | He designed the sand garden , the pagoda , the Shinto temple , the ancestral cemetery , the calligraphy court and the bridge over the lotus pond . |
| 27 | To one side of the square is the former railway station and the bridge over the gardens is a former railway bridge — Monte station was opened in 1894 , but the short-lived railway from Funchal closed in 1939 . |
| 28 | The Company had to contribute £3,000 ( and no more ) towards the cost of rebuilding and widening Goat House Bridge in South Norwood and the bridge over the road near Selby Road ; although both were on Tramway No. 20 , within the Borough of Croydon and claimed by the Corporation . |
| 29 | Relatedly , for him , the evils of our times are indicated in the way that , allegedly , the polymorphous perverse has come to prevail over procreation , contraception over conception , and the anus over the vagina — ‘ as if the mark of a civilization dying should be a mountainous sense of excitement for the hole which presides over waste ’ ( p. 162 ) . |
| 30 | This type of derivative is known as the divergence of ; the derivative is taken with respect to the same space–time component as appears in the tensor ( here α ) , and the sum over the expression on the left-hand side is made for all values of α . |