Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My belief is that our good practice has evolved over a period of more than 50 years and that it has developed in classrooms through the dedicated expertise of British teachers enjoying the relative freedom traditionally allowed within our education system .
2 ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year .
3 It is five o'clock in the morning , but already the sun has crept over the horizon and the temperature is rising .
4 COSE has given over the organisation and running of the COSE Developers Conference , supposed to be in October , to Uniforum , leaving it to decide when and where to have it .
5 The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes .
6 Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time .
7 A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre .
8 Conflict has arisen over the unit of representation and forms of election to joint union committees within companies ( see below ) , often reflecting national debates about union organization .
9 Mr Clarke answered criticism from Cleveland County Council leaders in comparing the money being spent on the City Technology College in Middlesbrough and what the education authority has to spread over the county 's state schools .
10 The figures below show how credit use has changed over the period covered by these three surveys .
11 Much scholarly debate has arisen over the identification of the figures and the interpretation of the scenes .
12 The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years .
13 Of the programme 's two main objectives , the Institution believes awareness has increased over the year , but the lack of action taken has , in some ways , been disappointment .
14 In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth .
15 A ROW has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle .
16 A MULTI-MILLION pound row has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle .
17 It is as if the public recognizes that society has changed over the decade but does not much like what sees .
18 CHESAPEAKE BAY Has created over a period of about 17000 years .
19 It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer .
20 Since embarking on the diet Barbara has lost over a stone and her inch loss is quite remarkable .
21 It has been greatly influenced by the tangled confusion into which the Anglican Communion has stumbled over the ordination of women .
22 Controversy has arisen over the possibility of eradicating the tsetse fly from large areas of Africa .
23 The head and individual staff members meeting for about an hour to discuss the staff member 's responsibilities and the way that the school has progressed over the year ; particular stress being placed on the successes of the staff member and in finding areas of development and growth .
24 Ann McDonald has passed over the task of collecting material for the ‘ You and Me ’ column to Morag Gunn .
25 If this glitch activity has continued over the lifetime of the pulsar , roughly 5% of the moment of inertia of the neutron star must now be effectively removed in the form of pinned vortices ; but according to current models , only 1% of the total moment of inertia is involved in the whole of the superfluid that interpenetrates the inner crust , where pinning might take place .
26 Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative .
27 A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies .
28 Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival .
29 The wire has to travel over the surface of the retina , to a point where it dives through a hole in the retina ( the so-called " blind spot " ) to join the optic nerve .
30 In this extract , Charlie has tripped over the dog Floss in the dark , and to his astonishment someone speaks to him :
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