Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , Japanese organization is closer in many respects to depictions of an ‘ organic ’ structure , where the flexible aspects of the latter are widely distributed over areas of the organization which elsewhere would be more mechanical . |
| 2 | There 's really no chance of getting bitten if your ferrets have been properly handled over a long period and are never scared . |
| 3 | Terry McLaughlin , the deputy editor of the Irish News , said some of the material shown to him was marked ‘ top secret ’ , the highest security classification , and went beyond the type of photo-montage material that has been widely leaked over the past month . |
| 4 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 5 | Just such a programme has been successfully undertaken over many years by the Scottish Heatwise programme whose funding has never , alas , matched its innovation and enterprise . |
| 6 | The convention meeting has been bitterly divided over proposals to ban all trade in ivory because of decline in elephant numbers from more than 1.2 million to 600,000 in the last decade . |
| 7 | Rumours have been circulating that experts are bitterly divided over what to do . |
| 8 | Whatever the reasons for inaction , rising unemployment has not been uniformly spread over the entire population , but instead has struck hardest at these who are already the most vulnerable . |
| 9 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 10 | The position of the Socialist Unity Party — Party of Democratic Socialism ( SED-PDS — since December the new name of the communist Socialist Unity Party or SED — see pp. 37107-09 ) had been badly damaged over its controversial attempt to set up a successor organization to the hated State Security police or " Stasi " . |
| 11 | It was built in 1803 but had been badly modernised over the years . |
| 12 | As Raynor ( 1969 , Chapter 2 ) argues , the ‘ middle class ’ was never homogeneous ( in particular it has never been equivalent to Marx 's ‘ bourgeoisie ’ ) , but nonetheless its degree of heterogeneity has been greatly increased over the post-war years , and the shift in the distribution of social labour analysed above has accelerated this process . |
| 13 | I am extremely baffled over the deaths and by the behaviour of the older fish . |
| 14 | Even this morning , companies and individuals are apparently falling over themselves to spend breakfast with the Australian team , all for a moderate fee , of course , which goes to charity . |
| 15 | It has been much improved over the previous version and humanized , to boot . |
| 16 | There was also a lot of clay in one part of the garden and sand in the rest , but the soil has been much improved over the years by generous additions of peat . |
| 17 | His hands are gently folded over it as if it were just a bag of laundry on his lap . |
| 18 | Fish and other organisms have been successively destroyed over large areas of the creek , and surviving fish have become chronically diseased . |
| 19 | Bedwetting baselines are best set over a period of at least 2 weeks because of the often intermittent nature of the problem . |
| 20 | It is a myth that such relationships are best fostered over " heavy " business lunches . |
| 21 | Woks are best used over a gas flame . |
| 22 | The operation , run by the police , Army and Air Force , was to last 60 days and was to result in the eviction of all garimpeiros from the 2,000-sq km reserve which had been progressively invaded over the previous two to three years . |
| 23 | Informal briefings and seminars are generally held over the lunch-time period , which is only flexible for scientific and administrative staff . |
| 24 | Thus jobs which involve social interaction with other workers are generally more satisfying than socially isolated work ; monotonous , repetitive work is more likely to be linked with job dissatisfaction than more varied work ; jobs which involve responsibility and the ability to organize work time and work methods are generally preferred over those which lack these qualities , and so forth . |
| 25 | Of course , as has been shown , neither English nor humane education were simply " there " , but had been laboriously constructed over a long period . |
| 26 | Probably something that had been generally agreed over the remains of the first person that had dared to call him Rosie . |
| 27 | Many workers are already looking over their shoulders with four million people in reality unemployment in the United Kingdom . |
| 28 | It is heading for a thumping loss of more than FF700m ( about £85m ) this year and if you believe all the doomsters and gloomsters , the vultures are already circling over the lovable animated characters created by the legendary Walt Disney . |
| 29 | Stresses are easily transmitted over the phone and fuel concern . |
| 30 | I hope you are not presiding over its liquidation . ’ |