Example sentences of "being [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.

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1 Britain 's biggest manufacturer of compact discs has denied accusations that music lovers are being ripped off over the cost .
2 While the course organisers were able to operate in this way in a majority of cases , for a small number of courses which either finished early in the year , or employer.based project work was being carried out over the summer months , organisers posted on the questionnaire on behalf of [ MS .
3 erm This rainforest festival is actually being carried out over the country .
4 There was the sound of a chair being pushed back over the floor linoleum .
5 Hoomey was being towed along over the field by an animal that was scarcely recognizable as a horse , so thin and sway-backed as it was .
6 Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland .
7 In 1990 it will be extended to cover all SCOTVEC certification with the exception of the old system of HNCs and HNDs which are being phased out over the next few years .
8 You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ?
9 What was being fought out over The Lodger was a debate about how far it was possible to combine a concern for art with the values of popular cinema .
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