Example sentences of "over all [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether correctly or not , he was interpreted as the philosopher of the sovereignty of the popular or general will over all partial or sectional interests . |
| 2 | And it 's such a bubbly one that even the normally brash and loud dandy from Darlington has come over all bashful . |
| 3 | The springs sagged in the middle and before night was over all four bodies were entangled in a heap in the middle . |
| 4 | They have the final authority , through the Chamber of Republics and provinces , over all economic and financial policies , and it would be difficult in normal circumstances to get their agreement to substantial federal surpluses or deficits . |
| 5 | Central bodies were not to negotiate on the transfer of facilities to Lithuanian jurisdiction ( on March 13 the Lithuanian Supreme Council had passed a bill establishing the principle of Lithuanian jurisdiction over all economic facilities in the republic currently held solely by the USSR central authorities or jointly with Lithuania ) . |
| 6 | This should be smeared over all unpolished areas as well , to give extra protection against future infestation . |
| 7 | These officers are remarkably helpful over all such matters , and freely offer their knowledge . |
| 8 | It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth . |
| 9 | ‘ Everyone knows there were a lot of girls before Shakira and I 'm not about to go back over all that . |
| 10 | ‘ She 's gotten over all that . |
| 11 | I know he stabbed the portrait but he 'd got over all that and he never killed her … he did it out of sheer unhappiness and frustration … but that was months ago … you must believe me ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's given us a chance to improve our over all strategic attitude by shortening our supply lines , you see . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In all professional considerations the interests of clients within their prescribed or legitimate requirements take precedence over all other interests . |
| 18 | The concept of allyah — immigration to Palestine to live on agricultural settlements — was a passionate ideal which took priority over all other considerations . |
| 19 | The need to feed the addiction takes priority over all other activities , leading to personal neglect , anti-social behaviour and crime . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Language in general is understood as communication and thought , command over which must " take precedence over all other branches of learning " . |
| 26 | At that time the Conservative majority over all other parties exceeded 130 so the result demonstrated a major back-bench rebellion . |
| 27 | And that 's something that christians believe they have over all other faiths , that the only way to God is through Jesus Christ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Will he confirm that the primary role of the plan will take precedence over all other considerations ? |