Example sentences of "victory [prep] [noun] over [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Slim victory for school over boy 's beating Allan McLean on the impact of the European court 's decision on corporal punishment |
| 3 | Victory for Wofford over Thornburgh in Pennsylvania |
| 4 | If teachers are able to resist the force of such wholly misleading claims as this from such powerful sources it will be a remarkable victory for sense over folly . |
| 5 | The birth of commercial television in the early fifties was a victory for money over breeding , of corporate power over paternalism . |
| 6 | And victory for Gloucestershire over Yorkshire by 3 wickets . |
| 7 | Those gardens which survived were in the main bulldozed and concreted over to provide station car-parking in the 1950 , another victory for functionalism over aesthetics . |
| 8 | It was another victory for David over Goliath . |
| 9 | The idea is the victory of life over death . |
| 10 | The words , ‘ Let's get this country moving again , ’ and ‘ We stand on the edge of a New Frontier , ’ were actually spoken by Kennedy , while 32 years later Bill Clinton promised to ‘ lift up the American people , ’ and of , ‘ a victory of hope over fear … instead of four more tired old years , four new years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 12 | ‘ Mixed Up ’ is a veritable victory of pride over prejudice . |
| 13 | Huxley 's retort that he would rather have an ape for an ancestor than a bishop — or words to that effect — has come to symbolize not merely the conflict between Darwinism and the Bible but the victory of science over religion . |
| 14 | CAPTURE THE VICTORY OF SCIENCE OVER TIME . |
| 15 | The Party leader , Mr Jacques Chirac , said he regretted that reaction in France to events in East Germany were often cool because of the fear of difficult consequences for France , but the priority should be to support a victory of democracy over communism . |
| 16 | Already characterized by the victory of democracy over authoritarianism in Latin America , this new age would , he said , be bolstered by a new economic partnership linking both hemispheres in a free-trade zone stretching from Alaska to Cape Horn , a concept expounded in the US Enterprise for the Americas Initiative launched by Bush in June 1990 [ see p. 37526 ] . |
| 17 | Although the death in battle of Penda , the pagan king of Mercia , in 655 sealed the victory of Christianity over heathenism , this important event was overshadowed by dissension between the Roman and Celtic Churches . |
| 18 | The New Statesman 's In Memoriam to Mr Major is a collector 's item , like the newspaper headlines giving victory to Dewey over Truman . |
| 19 | Havant 's 32–3 demolition of Sidcup left them needing a victory at home over Sudbury on April 25 to leapfrog Basingstoke and gain promotion from League Four South . |
| 20 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |