Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [noun sg] over [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In China the position was normally the reverse ; family and lineage took precedence over duty to the ruler . |
| 2 | your , your duty under article five is to be guided by the European court and indeed yes the competition law takes precedence over consideration of solvency and protection of policy holders , these are matters which can be reconciled under article eighty five three , not eighty five one |
| 3 | The committee expressed concern over loss of public access as Forestry Commission woodland was sold off , and said that as a first step , all existing rights of way should be maintained . |
| 4 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 5 | It depends , however , … entirely on the attitude which we as conquerors adopt towards the conquered , whether we stop the free circulation in the body politic by our institutions or so organise the dependent races as to leave open opportunities for a proper exercise of the social ambitious instinct [ defined previously as the desire to exercise power over others for their own good ] on the part of the individual native leaders so endowed . |
| 6 | But another senior Cabinet figure said the party had no need to take stock over policy on Scotland . |
| 7 | The problem of filling quotas to specification is probably the most severe disadvantage of a participant-observation study ; since the groups studied are self-recruited , the fieldworker by definition relinquishes control over choice of subject . |
| 8 | ( The presumption that the owner had control over items on the land would , however , be rebutted where a third party had hidden drugs or explosives on the land . ) |
| 9 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 10 | The decision follows concern over levels of background radiation in the city 's streets . |
| 11 | In February , 43-year-old Holmes scored a shock 12-round points victory over Mercer in Atlantic City , New Jersey to earn a title shot against Evander Holyfield , recently deposed as world champion by Riddick Bowe . |
| 12 | Fixed-term stock did imply that the national debt would have to be repaid , one day , but for most of the eighteenth century control of the cost took priority over reduction of the principal . |