Example sentences of "[prep] be over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , I can appreciate they 're not exactly going to be over the moon , but this is your life we 're talking about , not theirs . ’ |
| 2 | Surely it does n't require a degree in sociology to realise that people who invest their hard-earned cash in a quality house in a quality development are not going to be over the moon at having that kind of to-ing and fro-ing take place outside their front gates ? ’ |
| 3 | I was entrenched on the top of Eagle 's Piece , with a huge stone under my wheel and the only way out seemed to be over the edge , most humiliating . |
| 4 | In tests by Gloucester trading standards officers , more than 70 per cent of caravans were found to be over the weight limit . |
| 5 | And they said we do n't mean to be over the men , but what we mean is for you to come down the office , no what the office wants as regards orders , and be responsible and pass them out to the men who you 'll think who 'll do the job best and all that , and that 's what we mean . |
| 6 | Repayment loans — customers pay fixed monthly repayments based on what the Finance House expects the market interest rate to be over the period of the loan , and at regular interval or the end of the loan , the difference between actual and estimated interest rates is calculated , and the difference is paid or received by the customer . |
| 7 | Even if one were to concede to McDowell that there could be traffic in simple message types before the Gricean hump , I wish to maintain that one would have to be over the hump ( or at least capable of being in such states as are involved in the hump ) before one 's language could evolve syntactic structure of the kind yielding infinite generative capacity . |
| 8 | Rendezvous point was to be over the island of Euboea . |
| 9 | On other occasions the product to be launched is considered to be over the limit of what can be given away and one creative idea which has now been taken up by quite a number of manufacturers is to raffle a small number of the items or to organise an amusing competition which journalists attending the launch are invited to enter . |
| 10 | If a ganger was working on the track and was found to be over the limit , a director or manager could be found guilty of a criminal offence . |
| 11 | Erm , one thing some people do know that are in this room , and others do n't , and he 's quite embarrassed about this , on the way home from the conference , Matthew and I had a very , very bad accident , on the motorway and we 're both very , very lucky to have survived actually , erm , but erm , unfortunately during the course , well after the accident , Matthew was breathalysed and found to be over the limit and he 's in court actually in the Birmingham area on the twenty second of February , and we 're hoping that he gets off with a very light sentence , but er , we 're both very , very lucky to be here today . |
| 12 | An MP is judged to be over the limit |
| 13 | You do NOT need to have had any previous experience of working with mentally handicapped people as training is given , but you do have to be over the age of 21 . |
| 14 | Miriam : It 's the same situation , the men come to feel that it is their right as male persons to be over the woman . |
| 15 | 1 The centre cross of your protractor has to be over the corner of the angle . |