Example sentences of "be [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 2 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 3 | All the political parties have accepted the fact that social security has got to change we 're spending over a third of public spending on social security and each political party is reviewing it to find way of making it more effective and to make saving . |
| 4 | Although the consultants in London seemed to use their beds more effectively , 1912 patients ( an average of 39.1 per consultant ) had been waiting over a year for admission , which implies a lack of resources . |
| 5 | Sir Paul Girolami , chairman of Glaxo Holdings , will be handing over an £800,000 cheque today to Audry Collins , chairman of South Tees Acute Hospitals NHS Trust at a ceremony to mark the opening of a new dermatology centre at South Cleveland Hospital , Middlesbrough . |
| 6 | New pits were sunk at Dare ( 1870 ) and Bwllfa ( 1877 ) : by 1900 the four collieries of the Ocean Company were producing over a million and a half tons of coal annually , and many other pits had also been sunk profitably . |
| 7 | William and Debbie Balthis , now both nine , and their six-year-old brother David were burned over a third of their bodies in the accident four years ago . |
| 8 | From that point they were to make over a hundred films together , some thirty of them silent ones , and with their best work probably deriving from the phase 1929–35 , when they were engaged in creating coherent and sparse twenty-minute cameos . |
| 9 | Fires were burning over a third of the city . |
| 10 | ‘ Just because she 's produced over a thousand scripts and books ? ’ |
| 11 | The Nottingham Forest midfielder is stalling over a £4m move . |
| 12 | If the PB is identified as being that the child does not go to bed until very late , the most suitable way of setting a baseline is to note over a week or two the actual time the child does go to bed . |
| 13 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 14 | By 1950 it was devoting over a third of its space to sport with particular emphasis on football . |
| 15 | Although the jury acquitted him on one murder charge , it was deadlocked over a second and a riot charge , and a retrial was arranged for Sept. 17 . |
| 16 | A BARMAN was pushed over a 200ft cliff after his wife agreed to a £2,500 ‘ murder contract ’ , a court was told yesterday . |
| 17 | A small-leafed clover was measured over a week under fully controlled conditions and shows a clear upward growth trend , see Figure and also – which show the details . |
| 18 | I was doing over a hundred k.p.h. then through a miasma of mist , the Pacific glimmering opaquely away to our left and the light fading . |
| 19 | You know , I , I have been put in that situation before , when I 've actually seen , you know , and most reporters are working secondhand , but , you know , I have been in the position where I 've actually seen , part of a police operation take place , mainly because I 'd got stopped coming out on the Huntingdon Road after the , the Mill Road Post Office was , was knocked over a year or so ago . |
| 20 | HIV , the virus which causes it , was identified over a year later . |
| 21 | What caused the accident remains a mystery , although a cut in on of the rear tyres was discovered over a week later , but according to Lotus is was impossible to be categoric as to the real cause . |
| 22 | The gas was piped over a quarter of a mile to the Hall and stables . |