Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over and over again " in BNC.

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1 One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again .
2 One can be perfectly sure that had such a momentous event happened on the Lord 's Day , that fact alone would have been reported over and over again , the comfortable synchronicity of it all being a matter for boundless pleasure .
3 A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 .
4 It has been said over and over again that pupils need to gain confidence , and that confidence comes from success .
5 Many words which express mathematical ideas are used over and over again and it is important that they are used correctly , especially comparatives such as wider , longer , deeper , heavier , lighter , thicker and thinner .
6 Newspaper and magazine graphics are a classic example of this sort of art ; stock illustrations are used over and over again , weather maps for example , but each one is slightly modified from the previous .
7 The works of Beethoven and Bach are full of similar constructions , and it is remarkable how certain basic rhythmic cells ( such as or ) are used over and over again in their music .
8 The arguments that were current in 1973 about our membership of the Community have been rehearsed over and over again today in the same vein .
9 The same themes , the same subjects and poses are reinterpreted over and over again , often in some completely original way , but sometimes also in a manner reminiscent of a previous phase ; any novelty is eventually assimilated to what had preceded it ; nothing is ever discarded .
10 This over-representation of lone mothers among poor families has been found over and over again re.g .
11 ( Men find that they are able to be listed over and over again but that has n't been the experience of Helen Chadwick . )
12 Stooks would blow down and be set up to blow over again and wet heavy sheaves might have to be stoked over and over again .
13 Their doubts can be seen over and over again from their words . ’
14 Fred Ashton is a mature choreographic genius , things of his like César Franck 's Variations , Nocturne and Dante Sonata just can not be written about , and have to be seen over and over again
15 Cullet can be used over and over again to make new products .
16 So the rented coffin could be used over and over again . ’
17 Creating grids with desktop publishing software is a matter of moments with most of the good packages and , once created , they can be used over and over again without ever needing to be re-drawn .
18 The difference between ROM and RAM is rather like that between a printed book , which can only be read , and a personal notepad written in erasable ink , and which can be used over and over again .
19 Listening can be done in a classroom-type situation where you listen to a live language helper or to a tape recording which can be played over and over again .
20 A very fresh addition to the arcade section , great fun and one that can be played over and over again .
21 As with glass , aluminium can be recycled over and over again .
22 The trauma captured in splitting is that one is n't there ; the same trauma that castration comes to symbolise is that one is incomplete ; the trauma that can be lived over and over again in the endless by-ways of life 's failures and imperfections .
23 Burrows seems to have lived with his material for so long that he has forgotten to throw out enough clues for the rest of us , and there are few hints as to why certain sequences are so important that they should be repeated over and over again But what constantly saves the piece from disappearing into itself is the obliquely moving nature of the central relationship and some patchy but startlingly lovely dance images .
24 Such testimonies could be repeated over and over again as team members have had to take the lead in new areas they have found quite frightening .
25 He continued : ‘ I have already been slated over and over again by local climbers for putting bolts into the rock face at Land 's End , but this is the way forward ; of that I have no doubt .
26 ‘ If you look at the family phone bills you will see the same numbers were dialled over and over again .
27 Consequently the chants seldom seem banal or trivial , in spite of being repeated over and over again .
28 The names of many people are recorded on documents signed at Halling and these names are repeated over and over again by the historians .
29 Seriously though , motions like this one have been debated over and over again .
30 This impossible linking role , this almost schizophrenic position which a woman has to defend is reflected over and over again at different times and in many aspects of her life .
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