Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Business has been built up steadily over the last 12 years in Germany , Denmark , Spain , France , Eire and Greece , and more recently in Eastern Europe , the Czech Republic and Slovakia . |
| 2 | It is also necessary not to view policies in a static way ; they have been built up slowly over a long period and they are still changing . |
| 3 | They 're growing up all over the place and as you say , Ernie he he he did say about education but whose gon na run education in the future same as social services , you 'll soon find they 'll social services up into the health service . |
| 4 | You 're wobbling about all over the strings . |
| 5 | Funny that the kids are so quiet , usually after a day cooped up in there they 're jumping around all over the place . |
| 6 | In addition , we had a 1989 Bottlang to give us the location of the Visual Reporting Points which are used extensively all over the Continent . |
| 7 | Slack planning laws mean hotels are growing up all over the place , said Nick — who quickly threw out his own idea that the West has all the answers to the problems . |
| 8 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 9 | He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons . |
| 10 | ‘ The lights are going out all over the galaxy , ’ he said softly . |
| 11 | The books are lying about all over the place in Shellerton . |
| 12 | He told the Echo today : ‘ I 've been doing really well over the last month , playing probably the best football of my life . |
| 13 | He told the Echo today : ‘ I 've been doing really well over the last month , playing probably the best football of my life . |
| 14 | Er , it 's been coming in gradually over the years , but there 's been an awful lot of , of er , resistance by some manufacturers on what they say on their labels , and what they say about what they 're selling us , and er , if they 're gon na do this , and I 'm getting a , a slight suspicion , and I think Mr is , that , that it 's got to be done eventually , and we , we have to be able , as a buying public , to understand exactly what we 're buying before we actually get it home . |
| 15 | They have discovered that problems that they thought had to be brought in person to a bureau , can in fact be carried out successfully over the telephone . |
| 16 | Seems to be wandering about all over the place ! |
| 17 | She had slept badly and the flesh seemed to be drawn too tightly over the bones of her face . |
| 18 | It is expected to be used up gradually over the relevant period — 15 or 18 years in this case — so as to be exhausted by the end of the period . |
| 19 | He 's sticking his neck out , with a prediction that the snow ploughs and gritting lorries wo n't be needed too often over the next few months . |
| 20 | Instead the characters will be phased out gradually over the next six months . |
| 21 | Volvo seem to be moving out all over the place . |
| 22 | Morrells Brewery says it 's planning to offer managers at its pubs extra cash to cover the tax which is due to be introduced in just over a fortnight 's time , but the Oxford-based firm says it 'll only pay the equivalent of the initial government estimates for the charge , which in most cases falls well below the actual figure . |
| 23 | After that for six days little smoke columns seemed to be sprouting up all over the forest , now here , now there , but only for an hour or two . |
| 24 | I would assume that the marketing costs could be spread fairly evenly over the full five-year period . |
| 25 | People will be tuning in all over the world for these live performances and it 's the organisers ’ hope that they will also take note of the educational messages conveyed . |
| 26 | More and more self-build projects are taking off all over the NorthEast and Mr Edwards said clear guidelines had to be laid down . |
| 27 | Holy shrines and elaborately carved Moghul palaces are spread thickly all over the land , from India 's largest mosque , the Jama Masjid , in Delhi , to the splendour of the Palace of the Wind in Jaipur and the greatest , most massive mausoleum of all , the Taj Mahal near Agra . |
| 28 | Since no self-respecting modern cookbook leaves herbs out of its recipes , since courses in herbal medicine are springing up all over the place , and since cosmetics which rely on plants are taking the place of the synthetic beauty treatments what , one might ask , is a herb ? |
| 29 | In no sense did it correspond to the experience of student activism that so many of my generation were to go through elsewhere over the next few years . |
| 30 | ‘ We can eat later , ’ Leila called , trying to keep order over the group who were wandering about all over the place . |