Example sentences of "[noun] for [noun] over [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The merger , creating an organisation with sales of more than £600million a year , ends a 20-year battle for control over Remy , the third largest cognac firm and the supplier of Krug champagne . |
| 2 | In return for victory over Otto he paid the price — granting lands and conferring and confirming rights and privileges to the princes , bishops and cities of north Italy who needed his patronage . |
| 3 | The charges , which had been brought by Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) , were alleged by Gingrich to have been motivated by the desire for revenge over Gingrich 's leading role in forcing the 1989 resignation of House Speaker Jim Wright [ see p. 37406 ] . |
| 4 | A key issue in relations with South Africa was the Namibian desire for negotiations over Walvis Bay , the South African enclave with important port facilities . |
| 5 | Kimon 's prestige was still enough to get help voted , though he had first to beat back a prosecution for bribery over Thasos by Pericles . |
| 6 | It completed a mini double for Forest over Southampton — they also defeated them in the ZDS final at Wembley the Sunday before last . |
| 7 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 8 | Midlands Electricity still faces a family claim for compensation over Michael Grant 's death . |
| 9 | Waiting to tell us about a victory for Bicester over Milton in the Hellenic League premier cup ; Bicester two , they 're going so well at the moment , Milton nil ; Charlie Rawling . |
| 10 | Victory for Wofford over Thornburgh in Pennsylvania |
| 11 | And victory for Gloucestershire over Yorkshire by 3 wickets . |
| 12 | It was another victory for David over Goliath . |
| 13 | and over his preference for Greece over Turkey . |
| 14 | This figural aesthetics is a doctrine which opposes the subordination of the image to the dictates of narrative meaning or representation ; to language like rule-bound formalisms ( hence his preference for Cage over Schoenberg ) ; or ( in his ( 1984 , p. 80 ) example of advertising images ) to the dictates of capitalism and the law of value . |
| 15 | WordPerfect has responded angrily to Microsoft claims that a clear majority of users prefer Word for Windows over WordPerfect . |
| 16 | We now come to the first of the simpler tests for irreducibility over Q[x] . |