Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] over [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A high level of violence continued in the predominantly Kurdish south-east as the government expressed disquiet over the elections on May 19 for an Iraqi Kurdistan National Assembly [ see p. 38934 ] . |
| 2 | It was at Montreuil in Ponthieu that a series of Anglo-French meetings took place over the issues of sovereignty and homage in 1306 . |
| 3 | It is probable that elsewhere , too , local interests took priority over the problems of the Angevin family . |
| 4 | An authoritative article in Pravda entitled ‘ The defence of socialism is the highest international duty ’ set out what later became known as the ‘ Brezhnev doctrine ’ : this insisted that the interests of the communist countries as a whole took priority over the wishes of any individual communist country and that no defection from the communist camp could be permitted . |
| 5 | It appears that human preoccupations and concerns once again took precedence over the interests of non-human animals . |
| 6 | However , it also reflected uncertainty over the costs of reprocessing spent fuel and decommissioning nuclear plants . |
| 7 | The shareholders of the holding company entered into a shareholders ' agreement which stated that it had precedence over the Articles of Association , and clause 3 of that agreement provided that " no further share capital shall be created or issued in the company … without the written consent of each of the parties hereto " . |