Example sentences of "to court over " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only here under duress because I did n't want to go to court over this nonsense . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A MADCAP millionaire who lives in a run-down cottage has been taken to court over an unpaid poll tax bill — for FIVE PENCE . |
| 5 | Groom 's parents take the bride 's parents to court over wedding bill |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Private home owners in Cleveland have been given leave to take their local authority to court over the contracts . |
| 10 | The press were taken to court over publication of extracts from Spycatcher with its details of the adventures of the ‘ security ’ forces . |
| 11 | LAW SOCIETY TAKES LORD CHANCELLOR TO COURT OVER LEGAL AID CUTS |
| 12 | The McGimpsey brothers hit the headlines when they took the Irish government to court over the Republic 's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It is the first to take a European government to court over an ecological issue . |
| 16 | Government taken to court over pesticide residues |
| 17 | Friends of the Earth is to take the government to court over its alleged failure to ensure that pesticide levels in drinking water meet legal requirements across much of the Thames Basin area . |
| 18 | The environmental group Greenpeace is taking the National Rivers Authority to court over what it claims is the NRA 's " hopelessly inadequate " efforts to counter pollution . |
| 19 | FoE is taking the government to court over the delays in the clean-up programme . |
| 20 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 21 | The European Commission has , however , threatened to take the UK to court over its failure to observe community rules on drinking water quality . |
| 22 | A gunsmith is taking Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , to court over a bureaucratic blunder which left a company close to bankruptcy . |
| 23 | Alfred ( Finney ) and Michael ( Stephen Moore ) have n't spoken since the former took the latter to court over a play called Family Matters which exposed the skeletons in the Manx cupboard . |
| 24 | A council they oppose so much that they give us one of the lowest grants per head in the country , poll tax cap us , take us to court over redundancy payments , criticise us over the Meadow Well management and so on . |
| 25 | I ca n't see , I mean , of course I mean she can take him to court over the money |
| 26 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |