Example sentences of "is [v-ing] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly the back of the Morris Minor is hanging over the cliff edge . |
| 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 | When I emerge Bill is looking over the side , around the boat , with a mixture of rage and disbelief . |
| 7 | Again you will see that the yarn is lying over the E position needles . |
| 8 | Anxiety is growing over the Government 's commitment to energy sources such as wind , wave and solar power since Colin Moynihan , the Energy Minister who championed the cause , lost his seat at the general election . |
| 9 | Now then , is going over the top and spending more money and producing an absolutely stupendous job , fabulous result , is that quality ? |
| 10 | is going over the limit . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What I do n't like about it is standing over the board , moving the iron back and forth . |
| 14 | But , two years later , he is presiding over a government which is clobbering the poorest in our society harder than anyone else . |
| 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 | It was faith in a God Who is watching over the world , and is active in it . |