Example sentences of "is [verb] over the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloom is gathering over the weight of public debt , declining small-business confidence , the inefficiency and expense of public services , and the spreading tentacles of organised crime . |
| 2 | In such cases , the tonic syllable is the syllable on which the pitch movement of the tone begins , but that pitch movement is completed over the rest of the tone unit ( i.e. the tail ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 4 | ‘ Reversionary ’ bonus is added over the term of the policy and once added becomes part of the guaranteed benefits and can not be taken away by Clerical Medical provided the policy is maintained in full force until the end of the term . |
| 5 | The Scottish new towns constitute a microcosm of what is happening over the whole of Britain . |
| 6 | In this technique a V-profile chisel , the graver , is pushed over the surface of the metal in order to remove a sliver of metal . |
| 7 | Particular concern is merited over the dominance of writing , especially where this is a tow-level , time-filling activity ; over the general failure to exploit the potential of collaborative activity — especially since every one of the sixty classrooms we visited in the classroom practice study used a grouping system of some kind ; and over the limited opportunities given to children for work-related talk of a challenging kind . |
| 8 | It is unlikely , however , that a traveller will bring luggage to the inn , and since the traveller 's car and goods contained therein can not be the subject of a lien , cases where the lien is exercised over the property of a traveller are rare . |
| 9 | As a ball is hit , spins and moves forward , the air that hits the front of the ball is dragged over the top of the ball , creating a slight vacuum on top of the ball . |
| 10 | The teacher in charge is flustered over the number of boys who sloped off to buy food . ’ |
| 11 | A divorced woman can only use her former husband 's contribution record to establish her right to the basic pension and only provided she contributes in her own right as soon as the marriage ends and she does not remarry ( unless she is divorced over the age of 60 ) . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | There are twenty-four medium-sized frets and the board is lipped over the end of the neck at the body end , leaving the 24th fret hanging in space . |
| 14 | If we take a view about fairness , then the funding of capital schemes is fairer if the charge and the cost of the those schemes is spread over the life of the the asset . |
| 15 | When the Minister considers the proposed closure of research vessel support services at Barry , the destruction of the environmental research centre at Bangor , the threat to the environment from the Water Bill and the failure of Government Ministers to obtain a separate water authority for Wales , does he agree that the Secretary of State is presiding over the destruction of environmental research in Wales ? |
| 16 | The vent pipe from the hot water cylinder is fitted over the top of the cistern and passes through the grommet in the lid |
| 17 | Scientific opinion is divided over the cause of the decline of species in the Bering sea , with explanations ranging from over-fishing , to food shortages or natural population fluctuations . |