Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] over [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideas very similar to his proposals for Karlovka eventually prevailed over those of the tsar , the gentry and his own ministerial superiors . |
| 2 | In the previous year , Central Office wished to promote Captain Edwards , the chief agent for Birmingham , to be a Central Office district agent , but they were thwarted by the Chamberlains , who wished to keep him to look after Birmingham ; Neville Chamberlain arranged to have Edwards paid enough in Birmingham to keep him there and the interests of Birmingham thus prevailed over those of the party as a whole . |
| 3 | I 'm not going over one of them again . |
| 4 | Please have a think you know have a think about some of the things have a look out if you get out anywhere tonight watching people when they 're together just watch them any ideas that you have tomorrow we 'll start off with the first ten minutes just going over some of the things we talked about this evening . |
| 5 | Hence if a registered shareholder , A , first executes a transfer to a purchaser , B , and later to another , C , while both remain unregistered B will have priority over C. If , however , C succeeds in obtaining registration before B , he will have priority over B so long as he had no notice , at the time of purchase , of the transfer to B. If C did have notice , although he has been registered his prima facie title will not prevail over that of B who will be entitled to have the register rectified ( assuming that there are no grounds on which the company could refuse to register B ) and in the meantime C 's legal interest will be subject to the equitable interest of B. If both transfers were gifts , the position would presumably be different ; the gift to B would leave A without any beneficial interest that he could give to C and , not being a ‘ purchaser , ’ C could not obtain priority by registration ; his legal interest , on his becoming the registered holder , would be subject to the prior equity of B. |
| 6 | That would not result in ‘ alien procedures ’ on foreign soil , so the interests of the foreign country did not prevail over those of the United States litigant . |
| 7 | Attempts to interfere with the liturgy ; the abolition , for economic reasons , of some of the very numerous religious holidays ; the dissolution of the Jesuits , still deeply respected over much of Catholic Europe — all these manifestations of enlightenment could easily arouse widespread and sincere opposition . |
| 8 | It is thought that the panda once roamed over much of China but due to human development the areas where they can exist have been greatly reduced . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , tigers once roamed over most of Asia , some trekked over the frozen north , others up into the mountains of Central Asia and more through the hot humid rain forests of the south . |
| 10 | In an attempt to continue funding its advanced welfare state , successive governments had borrowed overseas to finance budget deficits , while also presiding over one of the most heavily regulated economies in the capitalist world . |
| 11 | The elephant is widely distributed over much of Asia though the population is dwindling . |