Example sentences of "[adv] take precedence [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Third , the worker was committed to the idea that treatment of a medical or disabling condition should not take precedence over the child 's social , emotional and cultural needs . |
| 2 | Yet the Lord Chief Justice , giving oral evidence , said that he and the Lord Chancellor were at one in their belief that religious affinity should not take precedence over ability in the appointment of judges and , said The Times , he gave the impression that his positive feelings towards the judge were shared by the Lord Chancellor So oral evidence was admitted on the kind of matter for which privilege from disclosure of documents was claimed by the Crown . |
| 3 | Briefly then , the rule of dovetailing ( like all other artistic laws ) must not take precedence of common sense , but must be regarded as the normal procedure , and deviations from it as exceptions requiring justification . |
| 4 | Morality could not take precedence in the determination of foreign policy because of structural differences between the setting for individual behaviour and the setting for international behaviour . |
| 5 | after Assisted Areas ( with which in part they coincided ) , in the grant of industrial development certificates , and would thus take precedence over the new towns . |
| 6 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 7 | Under contract law , a specific rule will normally take precedence over a generalised rule on the same subject . |
| 8 | The demands of people at risk of suicide or of harming others must always take precedence over the quietly distressed but passive long-term sufferer , and it is often better , therefore , to relieve mental health workers dedicated to the particular needs of people with long-term problems from having to cope with the emergency short-term demands of new patients . |
| 9 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 10 | The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy . |
| 11 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |