Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of [adj] over " in BNC.

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1 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 ] .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Government economic policy during the 1980s consistently extolled the virtues of competition and declared the superiority of private over nationalised or state regulated industries .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 One of the most basic freedoms anywhere is the right to peace , and the choice of quiet over noise .
10 The increase of observed over expected numbers was significant ( p<0.001 ) , with a relative risk of 444 ( 121–1138 ) .
11 It was a pivotal moment in the history of the Egyptian gods , the triumph of good over evil .
12 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 .
13 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 ) .
14 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 .
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