Example sentences of "passed over for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richart , who plotted to assassinate the king in a brothel , was a liberal army paymaster who was passed over for absorption into the civil service — the only career for superfluous officers . |
| 2 | The rebel officers had been passed over for promotion as General Noriega strengthened his control of the military 's two key policy-making bodies , the General Staff and the Strategic Military Council . |
| 3 | Until the final scenes Bolam 's Macbeth is a placid , middle-management man who may reckon he has been unfairly passed over for promotion . |
| 4 | She had earlier launched a claim that sex discrimination by senior officers and the Home Office had led to her being passed over for promotion nine times . |
| 5 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 6 | A sea officer , however , who was without significant influence , was likely to find himself regularly passed over for promotion by friends of the owners being groomed for command . |
| 7 | A 23-YEAR-OLD customs man who drugged , bound and indecently assaulted his woman boss in a revenge attack after being passed over for promotion was jailed for seven years at the Old Bailey in London yesterday . |