Example sentences of "[noun] for [noun] over [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Policy changes in the 1970s moved the provision for people over retirement age towards a wholly wage-related scheme of insurance . |
| 2 | Another trial in 97 patients showed an advantage for surgery over radiotherapy in forestalling the appearance of distant metastases over five years . |
| 3 | Gravel for use over undergravel filter plates comes in a very wide choice of materials and sizes , often having a high price to match . |
| 4 | Education provides two major areas for arguments over access to information . |
| 5 | They may provide considerable scope for disputes over meaning . |
| 6 | Shock for mother over body in lake |
| 7 | The company is due to meet MSF leaders next week for talks over job losses , but a union official said foremen at Dagenham and Southampton had been ‘ chomping at the bit ’ to take industrial action before then . |
| 8 | Structuralist linguists retaliate to the generative linguist 's claim for competence over performance with the argument ‘ An automatic language-processing system which works adequately for competent language but fails on performance is a futile system , because all there is to be processed is performance . ’ |
| 9 | Slim victory for school over boy 's beating Allan McLean on the impact of the European court 's decision on corporal punishment |
| 10 | If teachers are able to resist the force of such wholly misleading claims as this from such powerful sources it will be a remarkable victory for sense over folly . |
| 11 | The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism . |
| 12 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 13 | It exposed the moral dangers of the mechanistic philosophy that had begun with Bacon and had fuelled humankind 's drive for dominance over Nature . |
| 14 | The preference for ideology over aesthetics , however , was a marked characteristic of the contributions of Zhdanov and Radek at the 1934 Congress , and it is clear , if only from the wording of the resolutions adopted , that this approach generally carried the day . |
| 15 | This idea of unequal benefit links crucially to the point that competition for influence over behaviour is itself very far from free and equal . |
| 16 | Steve Bale urges precedence for country over club interests |
| 17 | By the early 1960s , however , there was increasing pressure for control over immigration . |
| 18 | Answer guide : Although the business has no cash problems and is making a profit there is cause for concern over stock holding levels and production levels . |
| 19 | however , the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology attacked ministers for complacency over reservoir safety . |
| 20 | Money-Go-Round : Justice for JP over disability claim INSURANCE |