Example sentences of "[vb -s] the [noun] [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion upsets the superiority of metaphor over metonymy : In what sense metonymic ? |
| 2 | Moreover , the committee , to be commended for having conducted its extensive researches and drawn its conclusions within a few months , has the advantage of immediacy over the Clark and Palmer committees , which sat over so long a period , in a rapidly changing environment , that eventually no one who was still able to recall the original brief was sure whether it was still relevant to the prevailing situation . |
| 3 | The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports . |
| 4 | Such treatment of the ‘ model ’ further reinforces the dominance of object over likeness . |
| 5 | Where an innkeeper exercises the right of lien over the property of a guest , the innkeeper owes to the guest whose property the innkeeper is retaining a duty to take reasonable care of the property in question . |
| 6 | Table II shows the pattern of recurrence over the entire period of follow up in patients with corrosive strictures . |
| 7 | This is a delightful , funny , quirky old thriller , belting along on high octane enthusiasm and using its copious quantities of High Tech to dress up a more human story which gleefully sings the praises of Spirit over Machine . |
| 8 | It also takes the Treasury to task over its intention to create a new offence which will be committed by any person acting in the course of any trade , business or profession who does not report his money laundering suspicions . |
| 9 | It privileges the music which Adorno chooses as best representing the contradictory whole — thus alongside Beethoven and the tradition following him other kinds of music ( Berlioz , Rossini , Verdi , Elgar , Stravinsky , Eisler , let alone Lehár , Louis Armstrong , Walter Donaldson or Elvis Presley ) are inevitably presented as partial , that is to say more socially specific , less autonomous ; it also reduces the possibility of struggle over the specific uses and meanings of musical materials and forms : competing ‘ viewpoints ’ are dismissed as ‘ regressive ’ or ‘ false ’ . |
| 10 | The introduction is an essay by Octavio Paz in which he stresses the isolation in which the civilisations of the Americas evolved ( as opposed to Europe with contacts from the East ) and he examines the reactions of Europeans over the years to Mexican art . |
| 11 | Also , it facilitates the granting of security over assets which in the normal course of a company 's business are circulating , for example , stock in trade . |
| 12 | An invisible county boundary , a meeting of Cumbria and North Yorkshire , follows the height of land over many miles of utterly wild and desolate terrain . |
| 13 | The Bar Conference : Donaldson sets the tone for battle over rights of audience |
| 14 | E(k) indicates the distribution of energy over different length scales . |
| 15 | It is this declaration which symbolises the primacy of cohesiveness over stability , and it arose , one must recall , not in response to the avowed enemies of Socialism , but to a loyal leadership which demonstrated the will and ability to deal with society on society 's terms . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was working against the natural grain of his genius , and the fact that he went on to write two more plays suggests the triumph of will over natural capacity , of idea over sensibility . |
| 18 | In the case of the pine , these are ruggedness and fortitude ; the early-flowering cherry suggests the triumph of Spring over Winter , and so on . |
| 19 | The teaching ruwang , then , in these first ‘ lessons in wizardry ’ teaches the value of mastery over the emotions . |
| 20 | ‘ Group performance will be contingent upon the appropriate matching of leadership styles and the degree of favourableness of the group situation for the leader , that is , the degree to which the situation provides the leader with influence over his group members . ’ |