Example sentences of "take [noun sg] over [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ’ The purpose of the rule is clear : It is the circuit breaker between monetary union and the back-door creation of a United States of Europe' , where a centralised government takes control over domestic public expenditure as the price of a bail-out . |
| 2 | And also you 'll like it because the house had to be split into two separate halves — the garden takes priority over domestic comfort . |
| 3 | As a result of this case the UK is now obliged to change its legislation because Community law takes precedence over conflicting national law . |
| 4 | If obedience to the Law takes precedence over human need then there is something wrong with the Law . |
| 5 | Be prepared , though , for a finale where breadth of utterance takes precedence over driving tensions . |
| 6 | It therefore takes precedence over national law : Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato v. Simmenthal S.p.A . |
| 7 | There seems to be a coldness at the heart of much hard-left philosophy , where theory takes precedent over practical help . |
| 8 | It is a dramatic change in attitude by the Germans , for they had repeatedly stressed that domestic competitions would take priority over international events . |
| 9 | Yesterday Coun Dot Long , chairman of the recreation committee , said the ESC 's artistic integrity should take precedence over economic considerations . |
| 10 | ‘ On this occasion , the recreation committee considers the artistic integrity of the production should take precedence over economic considerations . ’ |
| 11 | Simply your inability to accept that your wishes do not always take precedence over other people 's ? |
| 12 | Any statutory rules will of course take precedence over contractual rules . |
| 13 | Mother did n't , could n't , will never understand why a sport should take precedence over sensible activities like , say , a nice coffee morning , or an afternoon in the House of Fraser or a kaluki evening ( that 's a nice card game , not to be confused with an unendurable evening of Japanese theatricals ) . |
| 14 | The semantic constraint may take precedence over acoustic information . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then clever lawyers devised methods of taking security over personal property , and the courts followed . |
| 17 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 18 | My first — secretly arranged — meeting with Harrison Ngau took place over early morning tea . |
| 19 | These pragmatic principles offer a source of regulation for conventional forms taking priority over innovative ones , and for setting conditions on when innovation is allowed . |
| 20 | The data corresponds precisely to the situation described by Ashton et al 's recruitment strategies with non-educational criteria taking priority over educational ones . |
| 21 | The immediate cause of the rioting in Dushanbe was a rumour that Armenian refugees from the violence in Azerbaijan were to be resettled there , taking priority over local people in the allocation of already scarce homes and jobs . |
| 22 | Undertakers rarely advertised , for theirs was — and remains — a trade where discretion took precedence over high-profile marketing and one would not see an undertaker publishing testimonials from satisfied customers . |
| 23 | Even as other abolitionists refused that logic they were unable to find any means of reasserting the vitality of the emancipation cause and of recovering an integrated antislavery culture such that loyalty to their identity as abolitionists took precedence over religious and political differences . |
| 24 | The biological fact of her femininity took precedence over serious critical evaluations of her work . |
| 25 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 26 | This is presumably not Clinton 's intention , but illustrates short-term advantages taking precedence over long-term objectives . |
| 27 | Two relatively modern areas have been investigated — those of telephone selling as a technique and the selling of services because of societal changes that have taken place over recent years . |
| 28 | Loyalty to leader or faction has generally taken precedence over original thought . |
| 29 | One of the most serious incidents concerned the town of Batavia , Illinois , whose 17,000 residents allegedly suffer a cancer risk several hundred times higher than that which the EPA regards as acceptable , due to a reported failure by the agency to take action over high levels of radioactivity in drinking water . |
| 30 | The Stalinist town-planner , L. Sobsovich , emphasized that ‘ communal life ’ was to take priority over personal privacy in Soviet architecture : ‘ The idea of the one-family , isolated house , whose charms may be obvious from the petit-bourgeois , individualist point of view , will no longer have the slightest justification in the agglomerations of the socialist type and will consequently no longer be considered … ’ |