Example sentences of "be [v-ing] over a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we 're measuring the m membrane current , which here I 've called a macroscopic current because we 're we 're integrating over a whole area of membrane , this , with respect with any given channel will comprise can be expressed in terms of the number of channels which are present , the probability that each one of those channels is open , the open state probability , and in terms of the unitary current of each channel , that is the single channel current . |
| 2 | Fine , just in case I 'm running over a little bit . |
| 3 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 4 | She is on her way to the art gallery that she runs , where she will be presiding over a private viewing later in the day . |
| 5 | they were climbing over a massive wall to get into a cemetery that they 're not meant to go into |
| 6 | Er , if those that were earning over a certain amount , who certainly do n't need this child benefit to same the degree anyway , that 's those of at the lower end of the pay scale we could they could certainly save a lot of money , and they would n't have to do the squeeze down on the ones that would have the most . |
| 7 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 8 | But Howard is presiding over a fallen empire now . |