Example sentences of "[adv] take precedence over " in BNC.
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| 1 | after Assisted Areas ( with which in part they coincided ) , in the grant of industrial development certificates , and would thus take precedence over the new towns . |
| 2 | Sir Adrian attributes the moral decline largely to pressure brought about by a faster-pace world , particularly in the City where salary levels have become inflated beyond all recognition and where greed can easily take precedence over ethical practice . |
| 3 | Under contract law , a specific rule will normally take precedence over a generalised rule on the same subject . |
| 4 | However , his desire for power soon took precedence over any other consideration . |
| 5 | Loyalty to leader or faction has generally taken precedence over original thought . |
| 6 | ( 2 ) Will conflicts like the following restrict you ? ( a ) Conflicts of client interest ( the traditional conflicts ) : in many firms with mixed practices , the partners ' interest in maintaining work from insurers or corporate clients nearly always takes precedence over their interest in private plaintiffs . |
| 7 | The demands of people at risk of suicide or of harming others must always take precedence over the quietly distressed but passive long-term sufferer , and it is often better , therefore , to relieve mental health workers dedicated to the particular needs of people with long-term problems from having to cope with the emergency short-term demands of new patients . |
| 8 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 9 | The moral is that the need to clearly communicate findings must always take precedence over considerations of technical adequacy . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Teignbridge can not argue simply that nuclear power is cleaner and environmentally more safe and that it should therefore always take precedence over coal , because we can do things to coal that would make it environmentally far more acceptable . |
| 11 | Following the appointment of Oliver Cromwell as Lord Protector in 1653 , religious considerations once more came to the fore , although whether they ever took precedence over the more secular impulses behind foreign policy is doubtful . |
| 12 | In relations between the two ‘ opposing systems ’ , conflict clearly took precedence over competition . |
| 13 | Perhaps not in the sense of de Maria or Ericson and Ziegler but surely so in the sense that the idea of it often takes precedence over all other of its aspects . |
| 14 | Statutory duties invariably take precedence over other aspects of the work and because of the publicity surrounding cases of child abuse , and the tendency to blame social workers when things go wrong , a disproportionate share of the energies and resources of SSDs is devoted to work with children . |
| 15 | It appears that human preoccupations and concerns once again took precedence over the interests of non-human animals . |
| 16 | ‘ Will he be here for dinner ? ’ asked my mother , the cook briefly taking precedence over the hostess . |
| 17 | Furthermore , most schools are segregated by sex , and the building of boys ' schools has historically taken precedence over building girls ' schools . |
| 18 | The next building block is our family priority in which our spouse actually takes precedence over the rest of the family . |
| 19 | It therefore takes precedence over national law : Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v. Simmenthal S.p.A . |
| 20 | On the other hand , I have seen some country- made chairs where the ‘ rule of thumb ’ definitely took precedence over the ruler , and no two angles seem to be the same . |