Example sentences of "[pron] is [v-ing] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The members of the School Boards were more secular in their thinking than the builders of the earlier parish schools , and although some designers used the Gothic style , it was argued that ‘ … a continuation of the semi-ecclesiastical style … would appear to be inappropriate and lacking in anything to mark the great change which is coming over the education of the country ’ . |
| 2 | It was faith in a God Who is watching over the world , and is active in it . |
| 3 | The colours of the Jersey are far more varied than those of most European breeds and the full range spreads from almost black to the palest greys and biscuits , with all kinds of fawns , browns , chestnuts , golds and smokes in between , sometimes broken with white , sometimes broadly whole-coloured but never solid : there is shading over the body so that the tones are generally darker on face , neck and shoulders ( especially in bulls ) , much darker on the front of the forelegs and much paler on the underparts in the typical manner of wild creatures such as deer . |
| 4 | What I do n't like about it is standing over the board , moving the iron back and forth . |
| 5 | But , two years later , he is presiding over a government which is clobbering the poorest in our society harder than anyone else . |
| 6 | But he is fuming over the interference in his work of the chief executive , Lionello Celon . |
| 7 | The Scottish new towns constitute a microcosm of what is happening over the whole of Britain . |