Example sentences of "be be [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than half the British troops in Germany are being withdrawn over the next four years , which will inevitably put more pressure on UK training areas , making the removal of the MoD from national parks even less likely . |
| 2 | One of the pair in each case has been changed , but both are being monitored over a 14 week period . |
| 3 | With no game this weekend the Manor Ground was closed for business … but the directors were working overtime in the boardroom … sorting through thirty applications for the manager 's job … they 've drawn up a shortlist … four men are being interviewed over the next couple of days … who are they … the club are keeping the names a secret … we reckon Chris Nicholl … the former Southampton manager is still in the running … so too is the former Sunderland and Bristol City chief Denis Smith … the fans favourite is Mark Lawrenson who was in charge of United for a short spell before he fell out with Maxwells and the fourth man … is a mystery … could be the dark horse the names of former England keeper Ray Clemence and one time Villa striker Peter Withe have been under discussion … all will be revealed later this week … |
| 4 | Paper documentation also leads to delays in servicing users especially when the data are being delivered over the network or online , but documentation must be photocopied and sent by post . |
| 5 | On the same day the chairman of the commission investigating the June events disclosed that miners were being questioned over their involvement in the violent crackdown against the anti-government demonstrators and the subsequent ransacking of opposition leaders ' offices and homes . |
| 6 | Practise formation flying began early June and by the 18th , rehearsals with a full complement of 12 aircraft were being flown over the Norfolk countryside . |
| 7 | Alternatively , if the size and density of settlements were uniform throughout the country , then in some areas the dead were being carried over considerable distances for burial . |
| 8 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 9 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 10 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 11 | Now Southsea , not a theatre town , but I 've played there many times before , arrived there is a large advance and advance for people that do n't know is the money that 's being paid over the weeks before when they hear this production is going there . |
| 12 | The work is being phased over a number of years but already some of the refurbishment has been completed . |
| 13 | To combat this trend , a rolling programme of new regulations is being introduced over a three-year period . |
| 14 | The first problem is that a graph of units is being layed over a continuum . |
| 15 | The audience may accept that the war is being fought over an ignoble cause , but Thersites 's response to existence is too much to take . |
| 16 | By contrast , the number density of the ions and electrons falls in proportion to the square of the distance from the Sun , because roughly the same number of ions ( and electrons ) is being spread over a growing spherical area centred on the Sun . |
| 17 | Here as part of an agility routine , a dog is being coaxed over an obstacle by its owner . |
| 18 | £28 billion is being spent over the next ten years on cleaner water . |
| 19 | A central theme in the nineteenth and early twentieth century legacy of sociological theory ( and one closely linked to Giddens 's argument that social life is being stretched over time and space ) was that society was changing from one based on a small-scale and close-knit community of primary relationships based on blood , kinship and close association . |
| 20 | A 3D seismic survey is being acquired over the Viking satellites in the first half of 1994 with further 3D over JX if the well is successful . |
| 21 | Who was this Eva Burrows who was being appointed over their heads ? |
| 22 | He had been obedient and had never received the fuss that was being made over the return of his brother . |
| 23 | To allow the primary sufferer to wake up in yesterday 's clothes , reeking of vomit , may seem unkind and unpleasant but it is a good way of getting through the denial system which might otherwise lead him or her to think that a lot of fuss was being made over nothing . |
| 24 | A blend of grass seed , fertiliser and cellulose glue , it was being spread over the paths as a last ditch attempt to save an area the size of four football pitches from irreversible soil erosion caused by the 250,000 walkers who tramp around the area every year . |
| 25 | The stretcher was being passed over the heads of the crowd . |
| 26 | IN SEPTEMBER 1940 , the Battle of Britain was being fought over south east England by the pilots of Fighter Command , but at the same time the crews of Coastal and Bomber Commands were making heroic , but less well-known , attacks on the invasion barges and German naval forces assembled in the ports and harbours across the Channel . |
| 27 | Whilst the conflict over Reagan 's diaries was in progress , a parallel struggle was being fought over Poindexter 's efforts to subpoena Reagan as a witness and to force him to testify in person at the trial . |
| 28 | The non-aggressive angel-like pose , is of course extremely seductive , which makes the threat of force oblique , only implied , as if a beautiful face was being laid over the ugly face of violent coercion . |