Example sentences of "might be [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , a Roman burial alongside a road leading from a Roman town may originally have been deliberately buried , but as the town expanded and the burial was forgotten , a house might be built over the site . |
| 2 | The windows over the shop were discreetly curtained so it was likely that whatever Dobles there might be lived over the shop . |
| 3 | and that there is no other regular ministry held there by any other denomination of Christians whereby any adequate surveillance might be held over the moral and religious state of the community , and that consequently the sins of intemperance , Sabbath desecration , and the other vices that follow in their train have become sadly prevalent and daily increasing . |
| 4 | 1 In law and in theory , the individual minister was , in effect , the same as the Department : he was responsible for everything that went on in his office ( whether he knew about it or not ) and might be hauled over the coals and forced to resign if Parliament disapproved of his personal acts , the general conduct of his Department , or acts done ( or left undone ) in the name of his departmental officials . |
| 5 | Alternately , a piece of light green paper might be glued over the hardboard . |