Example sentences of "[v-ing] over a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they were climbing over a massive wall to get into a cemetery that they 're not meant to go into |
| 2 | Fine , just in case I 'm running over a little bit . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was , of course , presiding over a capitalist economy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But Howard is presiding over a fallen empire now . |
| 8 | He strongly opposed the orthodox post-colonial constitution proposed by the British government , in which he was assigned the role of constitutional monarch presiding over a Westminster-style parliament . |
| 9 | Still less can we be true citizens if that parliamentary will is in practice the will of a Prime Minister presiding over a cowed Cabinet and protected by an impregnable parliamentary majority . |
| 10 | They were both , after all , in show-business of a kind , both presiding over a declining form of entertainment , both desperately concerned to pull in the customers . |
| 11 | But he is a man presiding over a collapsing economy and a discredited political system . |
| 12 | Instead of controlling Government spending , and keeping the lid on inflation , the Labour Government borrowed more and more — increasing spending by over 12 per cent in just one year ( 1974–5 ) , and presiding over an inflationary spiral the like of which has never been recorded before or since . |
| 13 | 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 . |