Example sentences of "[verb] a victory over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pulpit had won a victory over the theatre , and the stage was thought by many to be a thing of the devil . |
| 2 | Downpatrick also clinched a victory over the other south Belfast Section One side at the weekend , seeing off Instonians by seven wickets at Shane Park on Saturday . |
| 3 | Some say the lion was set up to celebrate a victory over the Venetians — although that seems barely credible , a defeated , down-trodden beast being the more usual symbol for a defeated enemy — others that it simply marks the position of the old eastern gate , through which travellers to and from Venice would go . |
| 4 | For 594 Fredegar notes a war between the Franks and the Bretons , and under the following year he mentions a victory over the Warni , who are probably to be equated with the Thuringians . |
| 5 | If our Lord had been resurrected only as a spirit it would have signified a victory over the spiritual world but the fact that it was a physical resurrection shows his sovereignty over history and the created world . |
| 6 | The first such trips in the spring of 1980 represented a victory over the KGB . |
| 7 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 8 | The question was whether to settle for a return to the status quo , or to try to unite the two Koreas and achieve a victory over the communists . |
| 9 | In truth they all looked out of their depth , and have still to register a victory over the Ports since their elevation to senior status . |
| 10 | All of these bands explicitly lambast indie parochialism and neurotic fear of major label compromise ; all peddle an obsolete notion that the brash and the colourful represent a victory over the hegemony of a vague grey , with the naïve optimism of nineteenth-century dandies . |
| 11 | The names of Offa , his queen , Cynethryth , and his son , Ecgfrith , have subsequently been attached to the witnesses of a grant of land by Ealdwulf ( CS 197 : S 50 ) , but Offa appears to have consented to Osmund 's grant of 770 ( CS 206 : S 49 ) and in 771 he gained a victory over the men of Hastings . |