Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Footsteps are heard all over the building causing surprise and apprehension and expectancy in those visitors who have heard about the phenomena but have n't experienced it . |
| 2 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 4 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 5 | Table 7 gives some idea of the many Friesian derivatives which have since been developed all over the world . |
| 6 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 7 | Counties are designated all over the south . |
| 8 | Such things are happening all over the country . |
| 9 | It is hardly possible to drive through the village and people have been climbing all over the wreck . |
| 10 | Families are like constellations of stars : we see each one as an entity , because they make some recognisable design , yet the individual stars are scattered all over the universe , apart . |
| 11 | The first 20 live closest to the hospital that is to do the transplant , the next 20 are somewhat further afield and the remainder are scattered all over the country . |
| 12 | The teaching faculties and administrative offices are scattered all over the city but , forming a wonderful backdrop to King 's Parade , stands the Senate House . |
| 13 | In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments . |
| 14 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 15 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 16 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 17 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 18 | Mobilisations , deployments and manoeuvres have been carried out over the years to discourage resistance to Communist takeover ( Czechoslovakia 1948 ) , to block undesired contacts with West Berlin ( 19 separate occasions , including two seizures of West Berlin territory ) , to apply pressure in negotiations ( Norway and the Barents Sea ) , and to mask intentions in crisis ( Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1981 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 20 | It 's been happening all over the world for quite some time . ’ |
| 21 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 22 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 23 | oh , right oh then , she said it 's been done all over the country |
| 24 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 25 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 26 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 27 | Bottle bins and cages for newspapers and cardboard have been positioned all over the centre and the scheme will be inaugurated at 2pm on June 17 . |
| 28 | ( Because they are stumbling backwards over a precipitation of hasty , inside-out clothes , say . ) |
| 29 | His drawings and paintings have been exhibited all over the world . |
| 30 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |