Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [adv] over " 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 | Vaulting was being developed all over Europe by the later eleventh century , but in Italy the wooden roof and/or the domical covering were the usual method . |
| 3 | Now that the horses are turned out to pasture again after the winter , the Fargelanda ‘ home guard ’ is again mobilised , and others are being organised all over western Sweden . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | erm This rainforest festival is actually being carried out over the country . |
| 6 | Will he assure the House that the new planning practice guidance that he is to issue will give planners teeth , and not just false teeth , to deal with the unauthorised developments being built all over the country ? |
| 7 | By the middle of the century chamber cantatas were being written all over Italy ; the composers were as numerous as the madrigalists of the previous century . |
| 8 | He was to become a leading exponent of night intruding later in the war , bringing his personal score to 162 before being shot down over France by Flak , and dying of his injuries from the crash which followed , in July 1943 . |
| 9 | Bryn Weare was sheltered by the Belgian underground after being shot down over Germany . |
| 10 | This program is being seen all over the world ! |
| 11 | She felt her legs being pushed up over her head and heard the crack as her ankle hit a lump of granite . |
| 12 | There was the sound of a chair being pushed back over the floor linoleum . |
| 13 | PE inspector Alan Bell told county councillors that the good practice they saw influenced their draft report to education secretary Kenneth Clarke , so Durham 's guidelines are now being used all over the country . |
| 14 | Die Entführung was being performed all over Austria and Germany , and , according to Leopold , the Berlin papers were advertising the new quartets , saying that Mozart 's name alone was sufficient to recommend them to the public : no other guarantee of quality was needed . |
| 15 | How the printers had got hold of her photograph she did not know , but they had , and now it was being sold all over London , along with ones of Lillie Langtry and other noted belles . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Corduroy has always been the poor man 's velvet ; its pile is made of cotton , rather than silk or satin , and by the eighteenth century it was being worn all over Europe , not by kings , but by working men . |
| 20 | ‘ They will know the game is being televised all over Europe and they will give everything because of that . |
| 21 | Marcus lying bloodied and broken , at this very moment being lifted into an ambulance , the red blanket being pulled up over his beautiful face . |
| 22 | You , you say you noticed more and more machinery being brought in over the years ? |
| 23 | Not , well this one specifically this but er I mean there 's tapes being taken all over the place . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm getting a little tired , ’ she added tetchily , ‘ of being shunted all over the place looking for your wretched cousin . ’ |
| 25 | There are battles being fought all over Ireland about pollution incidents and industrial hazards . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Mozart is being promoted all over the world as the bewigged darling of the gods , the product of a golden age of innocence and delight . |
| 28 | This is based on a master file of regular payments being established on our computer and authorisation for payment being confirmed verbally over the telephone . |
| 29 | How can the Secretary of State reconcile that experience , which is being replicated all over the country , with the experience of Mr. Watson ? |
| 30 | Do you think they 're being slapped down over dialect ? |