Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most spectacular case where the government lost control of the timetable was in the spring of 1969 over the Parliament ( No. 2 ) — House of Lords Reform — Bill . |
| 2 | On May 4 , 1990 , the Latvian Supreme Soviet declared the independent Republic of Latvia — recognized internationally in 1920 — to be de jure still in existence , and declared the sovereignty of Latvian over Soviet law [ see p. 37460 ] . |
| 3 | But the power and the point of Barthes 's account of wrestling , as a spectacle that re-enacts the battle of good over evil with grandiloquence and excess of gesture and act , is that this interpretation is contrary to an accepted one of wrestling as a sport in which competitors demonstrate skill and strength in their progress towards a victory . |
| 4 | The temple at Edfu , which we reached on the morning of the third day , was dedicated to Horus , for this was the spot where he was said to have vanquished Seth , and thus to have established the ascendancy of good over evil , This is never a , convincing concept , and the reliefs display the struggle and its happy outcome with an adamancy that seems to betray doubt . |
| 5 | Although there is an important ethnic factor in this research , namely the predominance of Asian over African managers in the sample , the finding is still significant . |
| 6 | Later figures showed that for the whole of 1922 over twice as much grain was transported by rail and waterways as in 1921 . |
| 7 | You must if if you 're scared if you have any doubts about putting the price of that over the phone then forget doing this . |
| 8 | We assessed all curettings ( not related to pregnancy ) received from women under the age of 40 over a seven month period ; 13% had minor abnormalities , including simple hyperplasia and chronic endometritis . |
| 9 | The predominant conventions of the adventure story , the victory of good over evil and the happy ending , have led to a subtle demotion of the genre from the highest ranks of literature on the grounds that its main aim is a contrived entertainment ; for experience suggests , often though not invariably , that the challenge of adventure is more likely to meet with disaster and defeat than survival and triumph . |
| 10 | Government economic policy during the 1980s consistently extolled the virtues of competition and declared the superiority of private over nationalised or state regulated industries . |
| 11 | The emphasis on service linked to the pursuit of beauty and truth led in the British educational system to the superiority of pure over applied science and technology , and the superiority of classics and humanities over more vocational subjects . |
| 12 | This is not necessarily true , though , as is said by Stein , Morris and Bransford ( 1978 ) : ‘ rather than emphasise the superiority of semantic over non-sematic processing , it may be more useful to ask how people use what they know ( whether this knowledge is non-semantic , semantic , etc. ) to more precisely encode and retain information . |
| 13 | One of the most basic freedoms anywhere is the right to peace , and the choice of quiet over noise . |
| 14 | His wife Eleanor snapped in the summer of 1991 over his affair with widow Georgina Gillan but all bitterness is now forgotten and they are together again . |
| 15 | The number of those over pensionable age will be far higher in the next century than it is today . |
| 16 | Despite the need to return to a monetary economy under the liberal market conditions of NEP , by the end of 1922 over onethird of total revenue still came in the form of taxes in kind . |
| 17 | The increase of observed over expected numbers was significant ( p<0.001 ) , with a relative risk of 444 ( 121–1138 ) . |
| 18 | It was a pivotal moment in the history of the Egyptian gods , the triumph of good over evil . |
| 19 | This belief was supported by an equally passionate belief in the triumph of spiritual over material forces , and by a rather ill-defined theology of divinely generated social progress . |
| 20 | Weber explained the bureaucratization of the state as part of the ‘ rationalization of the world ’ , the triumph of instrumental over value rationality ( Jacoby , 1973 ; Mommsen , 1974 ) . |
| 21 | Army " hardliners " , who believed in the supremacy of military over civilian institutions , had previously boycotted the peace process and demanded that the URNG lay down its arms before any agreement was reached . |
| 22 | Of all workers ' complaints , the justice of those over truck seem to have been most widely acknowledged . |