Example sentences of "[noun] of the [adj] over the " in BNC.

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1 Data are not very adequate but they suggest that there has been a reduction of inequalities in this area even though the advantages of the non-manual over the manual groups are still substantial today .
2 Alice stretch riffs out on the rack into huge yomping monsters and whip a metallic tapestry of the bizarre over the top .
3 Alice stretch riffs out on the rack into huge yomping monsters and whip a metallic tapestry of the bizarre over the top .
4 The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation .
5 Each individual abolitionist demonstrated the victory of the better over the worse side of his or her nature , of ‘ pure power ’ over interest , but some particular individuals elicited especial admiration and reverence .
6 And it was the necessarily progressive movement of the dialectic that was to ensure the victory of the first over the second , the success of the revolution .
7 He may even have considered that to establish the superiority of the Copernican over the Tychonic system would be to reaffirm the superiority of Catholic over Protestant science .
8 In Roman Catholicism male hierarchy is reinforced by the hierarchy of the celibate over the sexual , making the sexual female the bottom of its ladder of holiness .
9 So if we calculate the Nernst potential for potassium , the equilibrium potential for potassium in other words , simply by applying the Nernst equation , fifty- nine times the log of the external over the internal potassium concentration , we can calculate a value there of minus eighty-seven millivolts .
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