Example sentences of "[art] [noun] for [noun] over " 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 | It might be expected that where such clonal growth is possible , the struggle for existence over long periods of stable management would lead to the local dominance of single clones — those that had succeeded in a struggle for existence with others . |
| 3 | The struggle for control over the Baltic republics is rapidly being overtaken by a bigger struggle for power in the Soviet Union . |
| 4 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 5 | Officers at Darlington Borough Council say the gloves are off in the battle for compensation over the town 's £12m Dolphin Centre sports complex . |
| 6 | The danger of contamination through the use of shared bar soap , the need for improved skin care , when washing is frequent , and the requirement for control over the bacterial skin flora has led to the development of a range of more sophisticated products . |
| 7 | Fish , which in the cold European waters are sluggish and easily caught , often provide the staple for mink over the winter . |
| 8 | In addition , the larger cost in foreign exchange worked to increase balance of payments constraints and hence to reduce the room for manoeuvre over domestic economic policies . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | A third set of dilemmas revolves around the question of how greater consumer choice can be reconciled with the need for controls over the total growth of services to prevent an expenditure explosion . |
| 11 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 12 | This could be decisive if the company objectives stressed the need for income over that period . |
| 13 | The appellants considered the mortgage could not be redeemed without their consent unless in accordance with the covenant for repayment over a period of 21 years . |
| 14 | A further important issue concerning the relationship between the State scheme , contracted-out final salary schemes and , increasingly , personal pensions , is the terms for contracting-out over the period 1993 to 1998 . |
| 15 | The extra cash help will come from the Bellwin scheme , under which the Government automatically picks up 85 per cent of the bill for disasters over and above initial spending by councils . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Bar Conference : Donaldson sets the tone for battle over rights of audience |
| 18 | This proposal will give the Directors the flexibility in future to make relatively routine changes to the schemes and the Directors intend initially to use this authority to incorporate the power to allow option holders , with the agreement of any acquiring company , to exchange their options over shares in the Company for options over the shares of that company ( or another company in the same group ) as permitted by statute since 1987 . |
| 19 | It will be interesting to see if the same thing will happen in Japan ; the Japanese manufacturers belief in the preference of the client for service over a cheaper product is already being tested in the marketplace — to their chagrin , according to contacts within the Japanese manufacturers . |
| 20 | If executive-assembly relations are seen as basically a struggle for influence over the policy-making process , what are the weapons available to each side in the struggle ? |
| 21 | Both the statement and financial figures are expected to relate to a plan for development over a period of 3–4 years . |
| 22 | The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The outcome was a victory for household over institutional authority : the teacher , transferred to an even smaller school , in an even remoter oasis , was seen to have been punished . |
| 25 | The changes were interpreted by foreign commentators as a victory for hardliners over moderate elements . |
| 26 | It is a betrayal — a victory for prejudice over common sense . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hotels are functional rather than luxurious , with tepid water and — crime of crimes for bruised and weary limbs — a preference for showers over baths . |
| 30 | Writers with a preference for market over regulatory solutions ( whom we will refer to generically as ‘ market theorists ’ ) insist that management and shareholder interests are adequately aligned by market forces , and therefore that the lack of shareholder participation in the internal processes of control need give no cause for concern , and certainly does not indicate the necessity for any kind of external intervention . |