Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The WRU and its leading 18 clubs are deadlocked over the issue of leagues , with no sign of a thaw in the cold war between the two bodies which has gone on for two years . |
| 2 | The share quotation list in the Defence commodity market is the Ministry 's Long-Term Costing , in which all programmes and projects are costed over a ten-year period . |
| 3 | To hold a large piping bag , grip it so that your fingers are curled over the front of the bag and the folded corner twisted between your thumb and index finger . |
| 4 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 5 | Related forms are spread over much of the world in Ordovician and Silurian times . |
| 6 | By taking account of business and other operational plans , such as changes in working practices , projections are made over a five-year period to provide base information against which to evaluate alternative strategies on staffing requirements and costs . |
| 7 | There are those who believe that their houses are built over tombs , unknown to archaeologists , and that the owners still supplement their incomes by selling off the contents bit by bit on the black market . |
| 8 | The similarity is that your risks are spread over a much wider range of investments than you could achieve on your own . |
| 9 | Otherwise , cleaning the room inevitably becomes more difficult as hairs are shed over the chair covers , and there is an increased risk of flea infestations . |
| 10 | The same accounting methods are applied over a series of reporting periods so that trends can be identified and comparisons made . |
| 11 | Lewd songs are sung over the microphone … |
| 12 | DARLINGTON traders are divided over the effects of a week-old scheme banishing traffic from part of the town . |
| 13 | Calculating the expected yield from a new machine , however , is not easy because yields are spread over a number of years in the future . |
| 14 | Front bedrooms are sited over a main road but have a lake view , rear rooms are quieter . |
| 15 | Words were spoken over the bread and wine . |
| 16 | The government and the TUC were now committed to a concordat to bring inflation down to 5 per cent over three years , while new TUC guidelines were issued over picketing and the operation of the closed shop . |
| 17 | Only scattered signals were seen over sections from group C patients ' lungs or normal lungs . |
| 18 | No hybridisation signals were seen over control sections . |
| 19 | Two rooms and a telephone were reserved for the CAB and , with a list of appointments prepared by the company , clients were called over the tannoy system to avoid queues . |
| 20 | In the main factory , heads were bent over the new German sewing-machines in which Rose had recently invested . |
| 21 | Some doubts were raised over Britain 's real motives for encouraging the foundation of , and entering , EFTA : economically , the smaller members were likely to benefit far more , which indeed did prove to be the case in the 1960s . |
| 22 | Doubts were raised over the course of events during the revolution , with the NSF accused of being already in existence six months before Dec. 22 , waiting in the wings and " stealing " the revolution from those who made it . |
| 23 | All cars were judged over the two days at given times for sound quality including staging , stereo image , clarity , frequency separation and absence of noise . |
| 24 | The subjects were fasted over night having abstained from diuretic drugs — that is , alcohol and caffeine , the evening before . |
| 25 | Two Tass reporters said tear-gas shells were fired over the heads of the demonstrators at around 11pm after an army officer had appealed in vain through a megaphone for them to disperse . |
| 26 | ‘ In particular , I shall insist that covers be placed over the bodies . ’ |
| 27 | The closure of the regional offices was phased over an 18-month period and affected 435 staff . |
| 28 | Furthermore , the safety of the solutions was improved over the findings of the 1984 evaluation : only 0.4% — 10.9% of solutions tested between early 1987 and early 1989 were found to have a sodium ion concentration in excess of 119mmol/l , as compared with 14.7% — 25.6% found in 1984 . |
| 29 | It is currently estimated that , for every £100 million invested in trunk road improvements , about 100 road deaths and 4,500 casualties are saved over a 30-year period . |
| 30 | Parents are cleared over boys ' deaths |