Example sentences of "is [v-ing] over the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While the universe is mulling over the implications of this , Mr Adam turns up . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he is fuming over the interference in his work of the chief executive , Lionello Celon . |
| 4 | but the strong impression I had is walking over the hill from Kettleborough where the gun club now is walking down into this valley and seeing that view of this little end of the village nestling in the hollow and I can remember feeling a extraordinarily strong sensation that I could easily live there |
| 5 | The Scottish new towns constitute a microcosm of what is happening over the whole of Britain . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 ? |