Example sentences of "over [adj] other " in BNC.
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| 1 | This triumph could be due to the outcome of a fight for a mate , or over territory or for food , or over some other issue . |
| 2 | ‘ Keith hits and kicks any child playing with a toy he wants ’ is an objective description of the problem and it allows us to decide whether it should take priority over some other problem behaviour . |
| 3 | UI , an $11m affair , wants to retain its input into X/Open , but unless it can come to an arrangement over some other form of membership which OSF has so far failed to secure , it is likely to turn in its cards at the end of the year . |
| 4 | The second time , she 's expressing the same two sentiments over some other shambling case of physical dereliction , while I 'm left panting on an immobile bicycle and I never go back . |
| 5 | Hilton 's Scale gains , perhaps , over some other later descriptions of the way in being very wide and very general so that the individual can find his own way therein without being embarrassed by a bundle of inapplicable particularities . |
| 6 | But Bourdieu 's notion of structure ( partly because it includes agency ) in modernity has a number of advantages over these other analysts . |
| 7 | In the course of time , however , the monotheistic principle began to assert itself , and for a complex of reasons not within the scope of this essay , the god Yahweh was elevated to a position of supremacy over all other deities . |
| 8 | As the subject of historical studies , and the heroine of romantic fiction , Mary Queen of Scots has a massive lead over all other earthly Maries , only the Virgin scoring more heavily — as even the most cursory glance at the British Library Catalogue of Printed Books makes clear . |
| 9 | It lays down that loyalty to the nation — and in established States , the State — ought to take priority over all other loyalties , including that to the family , and that the crime of disloyalty is treason , the punishment for which is frequently death ( that is , the nation has the power of life and death over its members ) . |
| 10 | As evidence for this assertion she will point to the fact that the rise of the novel ( the literary genre of ‘ character ’ par excellence ) in the eighteenth century coincided with the rise of capitalism ; that the triumph of the novel over all other literary genres in the nineteenth century coincided with the triumph of capitalism ; and that the modernist and postmodernist deconstruction of the classic novel in the twentieth century has coincided with the terminal crisis of capitalism . |
| 11 | In all professional considerations the interests of clients within their prescribed or legitimate requirements take precedence over all other interests . |
| 12 | The concept of allyah — immigration to Palestine to live on agricultural settlements — was a passionate ideal which took priority over all other considerations . |
| 13 | The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities , leading to personal neglect , anti-social behaviour and crime . |
| 14 | They expected the angels to come down and join battle with them — ‘ the sons of light ’ — against their enemies — ‘ the sons of darkness ’ — and to give them victory over all other peoples . |
| 15 | However , such acceptance does not extend to a recognition ‘ that the cultural forms of the semitic world have authority over all other cultural forms ’ ( Newbigin 1978 ) . |
| 16 | In this way , Schleiermacher was able to include Christianity alongside other faiths under his general conception of religion , and at the same time to affirm its distinctiveness and indeed superiority over all other contenders . |
| 17 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 18 | To say that they have priority is not to say that they have absolute hegemony over all other accounts at all other times , but rather that as a practical technique they are the accounts from which one 's initial hypotheses as to what is happening must be taken . |
| 19 | Language in general is understood as communication and thought , command over which must " take precedence over all other branches of learning " . |
| 20 | At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion . |
| 21 | And that 's something that christians believe they have over all other faiths , that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ . |
| 22 | The advantage the pure watercolour has over all other media is that it depends greatly on the light passing through the colour being reflected back from the white paper . |
| 23 | Although for practical purposes in ordinary situations we use language as if it were transparent and as if meanings and intentions existed prior to it , literature , in its freedom from any referential obligation , demonstrates the supremacy of language over all other activities . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that the primary role of the plan will take precedence over all other considerations ? |
| 25 | The Party Headquarters thought we were going to get about fifty over all other Parties , and they are wrong by about eighty . |
| 26 | A striking one came in 1760 when , at the marriage of the Princess of Brazil , the daughter of King Joseph I , the masterful Portuguese chief minister , the marques de Pombal , announced that though the papal nuncio and the imperial ambassador would take precedence over all other foreign envoys this would be governed so far as the rest of them were concerned simply by the dates on which they had presented their credentials . |
| 27 | The secretion of a skeleton gave the corals a great advantage over many other coelenterates ; supported thus they could overcome the lack of rigidity of their soft tissues and grow large . |
| 28 | In this the structural approach to literature has huge advantages over many other linguistically inspired theories . |
| 29 | He was professional AND green keeper there four years after beating over 50 other applicants for the job , and ranked among his star pupils Chris MacGeagh , daughter of a local linen baron . |
| 30 | If the pinches of flake were thrown over any other bream 's head then that fish would veer to one side , but only the bream immediately alongside him would react , and then only to get out of the way . |