Example sentences of "for [noun] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 2 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 3 | ‘ I had to go up to Clapton yesterday and haggle with Antinou for hours over that bloody Egyptian cotton . |
| 4 | We can sit for hours over one cup of coffee , and watch the people going by , and look at the river , or Nôtre Dame , or the chestnut trees on the boulevards . |
| 5 | CRESCENDO AND SYNOPTICS AIM FOR FDDI OVER UNSHIELDED TWISTED PAIR |
| 6 | The ANSI Twisted-Pair Physical Medium Dependent Working Group is expected to finalise the draft standard for FDDI over unshielded twisted pair around October time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Instead , table 5.2 illustrates the proportions of dwellings affected ( for example , unfit ) in each area and relates this to the average for the given year for stock over all areas . |
| 9 | It packs into a 115l backpack for carriage over short distances . |
| 10 | It is a betrayal — a victory for prejudice over common sense . |
| 11 | He could sue me for slander over this . ’ |
| 12 | It is also a very useful rig for fishing over soft mud and weed . |
| 13 | The courts often sit for months over scientific questions — for example , whether whooping cough vaccine caused brain damage — and the GMC may imagine itself stuck with cases lasting months and costing millions . |
| 14 | Together with Germany in the 1930s , Russia since 1917 has had the most penetrating system of political propaganda , but it was severely hampered at first by inefficient technical means for dissemination over vast spaces and many minority nationalities . |
| 15 | Nor was Washington pleased when the British resorted to their usual tricks in their search for influence over American policy . |
| 16 | For CDs over one year maturity spreads are generally wider , 10 basis points in the dollar market and in the sterling market ⅛ for the clearers and variable for others . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In terms of regional structural controls most of the auriferous deposits in the project area are spatially related to first-order faults and shear zones within the belt and along its margins ; to major anticlinal fold axial traces and limb shears ; or to the fracture envelopes around the major granitoid intrusions Follow-up geochemical field testing of soils for arsenic over selected targets outside the known gold mining districts was 60–70% successful in demonstrating that certain predicted structural settings would be mineralised . |
| 19 | The changes were interpreted by foreign commentators as a victory for hardliners over moderate elements . |
| 20 | Dr Hughes , who said UKOOA would urgently seek views of members on the detailed impact of the moves , pointed out that the changes could mean the industry as a whole losing from £300 million to £400 million in cash flow which could have been used for reinvestment over each of the next two years . |
| 21 | The examples he provides , of " dribbling payments of a shilling or two " for house repairs , funerals , clothes , tools and medicines and for tiding over occasional hard times , can be multiplied from a number of local studies . |
| 22 | O ate said that the government is to allow all citizens to sue for damages over environmental hazards , and to accompany environmental inspectors on site visits . |
| 23 | No protection exists for men over 65 or women over 60 or for persons over normal retiring age in a particular employment whether that age is more or less than the ages given above . |
| 24 | Although the 1944 Education Act placed upon all local education authorities the statutory duty to provide adequate facilities for further education , defining further education as full-time or part-time education and leisure-time occupation for persons over compulsory school-leaving age , it made no reference to higher education as such . |
| 25 | As markers , we would be happy enough to see you argue either way as long as you recognized that there is indeed room for argument over this point . |
| 26 | However , where facilities are available for use over short periods of time , the rudiments of camera acting are taught in a structured way . |
| 27 | Table 5.10 Commissions on eurodollar fixed rate bonds by supranationals ( percent ) Margins or spreads , for example over domestic government bonds , are typically influenced by a wide variety of factors , including default risk of the issuer , call risk that bonds may be liquidated early , tax exemption , maturity , and expected market liquidity . |
| 28 | ‘ His victory represents a triumph for those whose priority is care for patients over those whose first care is for balance sheets . ’ |
| 29 | He has opted for Chatam over former hunter chaser Rushing Wild who will now be ridden by Jonathon Lower . |
| 30 | He has opted for Chatam over former hunter chaser Rushing Wild who will now be ridden by Jonathon Lower . |