Example sentences of "[art] [noun] for [noun sg] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 2 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 3 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 4 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 5 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 6 | In addition , the larger cost in foreign exchange worked to increase balance of payments constraints and hence to reduce the room for manoeuvre over domestic economic policies . |
| 7 | The charges , which had been brought by Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) , were alleged by Gingrich to have been motivated by the desire for revenge over Gingrich 's leading role in forcing the 1989 resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright [ see p. 37406 ] . |
| 8 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 9 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 10 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 11 | A further important issue concerning the relationship between the State scheme , contracted-out final salary schemes and , increasingly , personal pensions , is the terms for contracting-out over the period 1993 to 1998 . |
| 12 | The preference for ideology over aesthetics , however , was a marked characteristic of the contributions of Zhdanov and Radek at the 1934 Congress , and it is clear , if only from the wording of the resolutions adopted , that this approach generally carried the day . |
| 13 | The Bar Conference : Donaldson sets the tone for battle over rights of audience |
| 14 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 15 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 16 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 17 | The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism . |
| 18 | The outcome was a victory for household over institutional authority : the teacher , transferred to an even smaller school , in an even remoter oasis , was seen to have been punished . |
| 19 | It is a betrayal — a victory for prejudice over common sense . |
| 20 | Kimon 's prestige was still enough to get help voted , though he had first to beat back a prosecution for bribery over Thasos by Pericles . |
| 21 | Writers with a preference for market over regulatory solutions ( whom we will refer to generically as ‘ market theorists ’ ) insist that management and shareholder interests are adequately aligned by market forces , and therefore that the lack of shareholder participation in the internal processes of control need give no cause for concern , and certainly does not indicate the necessity for any kind of external intervention . |
| 22 | The activities of the far right have been a cause for concern over here for a while now . |
| 23 | The Foreign Ministers signed a document covering the withdrawal of Russian forces from Poland by Nov. 15 , and an agreement binding each side to make no claims for compensation over the stationing of Soviet troops in Poland . |
| 24 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 25 | The driver yelled an order for silence over his shoulder and flapped his reins . |
| 26 | He proposed that barrackers should be thrown out of the ground if they did not respond to an appeal for fairness over the loudspeaker . |