Example sentences of "[noun sg] take [noun sg] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there is the slack legislation passed by parliamentarians far removed from the sharp end of society and the liberal-minded intellectuals living in ‘ Cloud-cuckoo-land ’ where tolerance for the assailant takes precedence over the suffering of the victim . |
| 2 | As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping . |
| 3 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 4 | But this time , faced with an orchestra which apparently was at first slow to respond to his blandishments , the musician took priority over the Mahlerian moraliser and he revealed many details and subtleties of the score while keeping its huge overall span firmly within his sights . |
| 5 | The 1967 White Paper at paragraph 23 , states the government 's intention to be that " community law takes precedence over the domestic law of the member states . " |
| 6 | Wickham might have commented that his business took precedence over a vote on the future of the chewing gum industry , but his priorities were not a politician 's priorities . |
| 7 | Rousseau , who was an incurable romantic , wanted to preserve the community of innocent and primitive social life , but wanted the community to take precedence over the rights of its individual members . |
| 8 | The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity . |
| 9 | In the U.S. , trading takes place over the counter on the basis of prices quoted on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation ( NASDAQ ) system . |
| 10 | An authoritative article in Pravda entitled ‘ The defence of socialism is the highest international duty ’ set out what later became known as the ‘ Brezhnev doctrine ’ : this insisted that the interests of the communist countries as a whole took priority over the wishes of any individual communist country and that no defection from the communist camp could be permitted . |
| 11 | In the women 's movement , too , a significant revolution took place over the same decade . |
| 12 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 13 | Defining abuse can allow the relative power of the carer to take precedence over the plight of the older person . |
| 14 | Even in India today , where certain animals are considered sacred and where the life of the spirit and contemplation take precedence over the development of the material world , this is an important handicap to the development of the Indian economy . |
| 15 | During the fluent phase , planning takes place over a larger unit than the clause . |
| 16 | On each occasion exchange-rate policy took precedence over the introduction of monetary and fiscal policy appropriate to the needs of the economy . |
| 17 | In the end , the main argument took place over an amendment from Italy that would limit the single assembly to the EEC , WEU and the Council of Europe . |
| 18 | The Customs and Excise , with all its ancillary departments , were forced to re-structure their systems to bring them into line with European countries and this reorganisation took place over the next few years . |
| 19 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 20 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 21 | My first little skirmish took place over a film , one about rape . |
| 22 | Treaty took precedence over the other provisions . |
| 23 | The Chinese attack on Vietnam in March 1979 gave the USSR the leverage to activate this agreement ; a gradual extension of Soviet facilities in Cam Ranh Bay took place over the following years . |
| 24 | Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years . |
| 25 | THE annual fun weekend organised by the Resource Centre , Carnhill , will this year take place over the last weekend in May . |
| 26 | The number of women who claim they drink moderately — consuming between eight and 14 units a week — has risen by 31 per cent since 1978 , with half that increase taking place over the last eight years . |
| 27 | The biggest event organised by the Trust this year took place over the weekend of 23 and 24 June when the countryside was brought to Salford in Greater Manchester . |
| 28 | When one carries out patient care , one must always remember that the needs of the patient take precedence over the needs of the learner . |
| 29 | This is as far as I can get with my researches for now , because after lunch I have to go to the Treasury , with my colleague Jane Showell , for a meeting of the joint working party on Sunningdale ; not even death takes precedence over the Treasury . |