Example sentences of "[noun] are [v-ing] over the " in BNC.

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1 It 's now believed the worst of the outbreak is over and some birds are getting over the disease .
2 Sticking with clothing , those hapless popsters OCEAN COLOUR SCENE are grieving over the loss of more than £2,000 worth of T-shirts which managed to fall out of the back of their van while they drove through the Moseley area of Birmingham last week .
3 But clearly someone out there misses it because promoters are bringing over The Incredible Hulk Hogan , The Ultimate Warrior and a gentleman called Randy Savage , for eight dates in April and May , and they 're all sold out .
4 The government and the ANC are bickering over the preconditions for negotiation — matters such as the bringing home of exiles and the release of political prisoners .
5 The inter-library comparison of 14 university libraries carried out by the Centre for Interfirm Comparison in 1979/80 showed how staff costs are predominating over the budgets for materials .
6 AT A crowded night market in Bangkok a stallholder and a tourist are haggling over the price of a polo shirt .
7 Choppers are patrolling over the city , ’ Tass added .
8 How do I know that machines are communicating over the air waves ?
9 Cause in the summer when the traffic lights are changing the trees are growing over the ones this side
10 At RAF Lyneham 500 men are sweating over the vast amounts of equipment the individual soldier attaches to his body prior to jumping into a theatre of war .
11 It is a Tuesday morning in 1989 , clouds are settling over the Southside and Rangers are due to play Dundee United in a re-scheduled Scottish Cup match .
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