Example sentences of "be [v-ing] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 2 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This , yes we 're taking over a couple of |
| 6 | It 's probably because they 're taking over the er accident and emergency department from Clatterbrick it 's shutting down and it 's all going to Arrow Park . |
| 7 | ( You ca n't fail when you 're handing over a cheque for £50,000 . ) |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | While many collectors are turning over every hedge and collective barn they can find within the Russian Republic and its former constituents and satellites for hidden treasures , a small and dedicated band have been scouring the Asia-Pacific region for many decades looking for Japanese material . |
| 10 | That is why the opposition parties are turning over the prospect that the prime minister , Mr Turgut Ozal , may impose a head of state from his own conservatives . |
| 11 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
| 12 | Obviously if you are flying over a bad area , with very few good sized fields , it is necessary to divert towards the best area within range and to start looking seriously for a field at several thousand feet . |
| 13 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 14 | Around the harbour , fishermen 's tavernas still jostle side by side with the newer cafés and bars which have sprung up to cater for the younger market , and the main daytime activity seems to be relaxing over a quiet glass of something while watching the boats chug in and out . |
| 15 | Besides , if I 'm turning over a new leaf , I need new friends to go with it , do n't you know ? ’ |
| 16 | Recently I have increased the pump speed to 2 so that I have a higher turnover of water through the filter At this setting it will be turning over the content of the vat about 8 times an hour . |
| 17 | 3 Can you give us an approximate idea of sales you 'd be expecting over a three-year period ? |
| 18 | The storm seemed to be moving over a little . |
| 19 | He would prefer to see the work completed more quickly , otherwise whoever was responsible for operating services after privatisation ‘ is going to be running over a building site 400 miles long ’ for up to a decade . |
| 20 | Whoever buiys them will be taking over a vastly different building from the hard working tweed factory … but that 's progress . |
| 21 | It seems that she will not be well enough to proceed with the rest of the play , and so her understudy will be taking over the role . |
| 22 | Drug cartels and terrorists are reported to be taking over the counterfeit clothing business . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I am worried that , instead , we shall be handing over a barrage that will do little apart from create what is hoped to be an aesthetically pleasing impounded area of water . |
| 25 | WISDEN 'S appearance this year for the 129th time ( John Wisden , £21.50 hardback , £18.50 soft ) coincided with the announcement that Graeme Wright would be handing over the stewardship of one of cricket 's greatest traditions to Matthew Engel . |
| 26 | But whereas normal grieving focuses on different aspects of the lost person , the depressed person seems to be grieving over an inner loss . |
| 27 | It appears the Germans are taking over the running of Standard 's European branches . |
| 28 | The toons are taking over the show Bob Swain on animation after the Roger Rabbit revolution . |
| 29 | Deptford 's Conscious Collective are taking over the Tabernacle , Powis Sq , London and the Albany Empire , to raise cash for the Advisory Service For Squatters and the Squatters Action Group For Secure Homes . |
| 30 | Currently in Britain , private companies are taking over the running of the big training schemes . |