Example sentences of "they be over " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made it clear that in our views , the Western capitalist countries and their allies are not so much concerned over the ‘ liberation of Kuwait ’ as they are over maintaining their monopoly over the oil and money of the Arab Gulf countries . |
| 2 | Moreover , older workers lose the right to be protected from unfair dismissal if they are over the ‘ upper age limit ’ ( this may be 65 or it may be whatever is the ‘ normal retiring age ’ for the job the individual holds ) . |
| 3 | A DIY breathalyser will soon be able to tell drivers if they are over the limit — but police say it ca n't be trusted . |
| 4 | Drivers will simply blow into a cigarette-sized tube and if chemical crystals inside turn blue it shows that they are over the limit . |
| 5 | Some plants like kitchen windows , especially if they are over a steamy sink , but always check first . |
| 6 | And the local authorities also we have government policy again we have the situation that Wage Councils which have agreed increases for our members within the prison service , do n't know whether they 'll be allowed to implement them because they are over the one and a half percent . |
| 7 | Hm , there see , they are over staffed , there 's no doubt about it , are n't they ? |
| 8 | ‘ Does n't matter if they 're still at school , as long as they 're over the age of consent and on the Pill . |
| 9 | They 're over the verse section of the song and need to be played aggressively , especially the bend-up at the end of the second bar and the four picked triplets in the final bar . |
| 10 | ‘ The way I look at it , they 're over there and are lucky enough to make a dollar for something they enjoy . |
| 11 | ‘ They 're over there on those lower shelves , ’ Mrs Phelps told her . |
| 12 | We recruit new customers once they 're over the age of 16 . |
| 13 | But prison officers who work alongside them claim they 're over budget and as a consequence , they 're are producing inadequate meals . |
| 14 | They 're over here for Central Enterprise '93 … an annual Nato exercise . |
| 15 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 16 | They 're over there . |
| 17 | They 've taken each other for a walk , I think they , I think they 're having a little flirtation , I think they 're over there , |
| 18 | Wonder why you 're stuck over here and they 're over there . |
| 19 | Oh they 're over here . |
| 20 | No , now I can hear you , because they 're over there , and they 're shouting . |
| 21 | Yeah they 're over there . |
| 22 | They 're over here you dick . |
| 23 | And when they were over the blue Aegean sea , many miles from Antioch , he circled widely , descended , and alighted on a small mountainous island , on soft green grass beside a grove of apple trees . |
| 24 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 25 | This is an extremely bold theory , but in the present stage of historical and anthropological knowledge it is not possible to say whether Marx of Engels were clearly wrong , as they were over primitive promiscuity , or by and large right , as they were over the gentile constitution . |
| 26 | Then they were over the coral , clear of it . |
| 27 | And her father 's answer to the question given himself had been : those tests at the secretarial college were making his daughter nervy ; and the quicker they were over the better . |
| 28 | Later , when they were over it , Georgia said , ‘ I never knew death would be so funny . ’ |
| 29 | As soon as they were over the bridge , a driveway cut off to the left and their way was barred by huge wrought-iron gates . |
| 30 | Tory and Labour were united in supporting Britain 's membership of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism , and look how wrong they were over that . |