Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possible explanations for a difference between older and younger women are that the operation has a delayed effect , that the operative technique has changed over the years so that it is less likely to affect bowel function , or that gynaecologists are doing fewer operations on women with pelvic pain of intestinal origin . |
| 2 | The regulation distance that a soakaway must be from the nearest building has increased over the years . |
| 3 | Charity fundraising has continued over the years , and many worthy projects have received Kent support . |
| 4 | One of the greatest difficulties Denis has faced over the years — and it has increased as the world has turned to harassing the smoker — has been how to keep awake through the after-dinner speeches without the benefit of a cigarette . |
| 5 | As regional policy at the national and EC level has evolved over the years , in order to ensure that national assistance does not conflict with the pursuit of competition and free trade , the EC has defined criteria for determining aid eligibility ( usually on the basis of GDP per capita and/or unemployment rates ) . |
| 6 | He also encloses a Sunday Times piece on singer Lou Reed ‘ the biggest problem Lou Reed has faced over the years , ’ it says , ‘ a scourge more potent than all the addictions , the feuds and fights with record companies , is his handwriting . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ The shape of the marsh has changed over the years , but we 're somewhere close to the spot . |
| 8 | Ivars has built over the years a series of light aircraft , most employing a faithful Cirrus Minor I engine . |
| 9 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 10 | Given the inevitable fact that the next PLO chairman could not hope to match the stature and international acclaim which Mr Arafat has acquired over the years , many Palestinians believe that the influence of the organisation would wane accordingly . |
| 11 | From these sources , it is possible quite quickly to gain an idea of how parkland has changed over the years — usually expanding in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries , and then contracting during the twentieth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Practice has differed over the years . |
| 14 | ‘ The team has never stopped the hard work and the new Celica has improved over the year . |
| 15 | Founded in 1972 as an expression of the enthusiasm of Christians in the '60s for ‘ world poverty action ’ and ‘ action for world development ’ , SCAWD has focussed over the years on such concerns as development and disarmament , the debt crisis , the Brandt and Brundtland Commissions ' reports , and South-North : Cultures and ‘ Development ’ . |
| 16 | It is five o'clock in the morning , but already the sun has crept over the horizon and the temperature is rising . |
| 17 | Moreover , their proportion has declined over the years despite an absolute rise in the number of people covered by retirement pensions , as Table 3.20 shows . |
| 18 | Denver is known nationally for its collection of Native American art , one of the world 's most extensive , which the museum has assembled over the years on aesthetic , rather than ethnographic , criteria . |
| 19 | To the best of my knowledge , for all the talk this question has engendered over the years , there have been very few attempts within the profession to formulate an official answer . |
| 20 | And although the City Council has managed over the years to old council house rents down , I think for three years there was absolutely no rent increase and then only about a nine per cent increase , although we 've managed to hold council house rents down until |
| 21 | The track that Mr Foyt made his second home has changed over the years , but perhaps no more so than in the past year . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ The rack was built by Pete Cornish , and basically it 's all the effects Bryan has liked over the years , but with switches so there are no actual pedals on it . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , Jessamyn 's appearance has changed over the years , from her first arrests as a pre-teenager to this last photograph — please excuse the quality , it 's a blow-up from a spysat picture taken from an orbital pass over Arizona last December — which shows her as we must assume she is now . |
| 25 | From 1066 and Battle of Hastings , you pass through the Abbey Gatehouse and see how the town has developed over the years . |
| 26 | The process has evolved over the decade with the linking up of what used to be short runs into long , cross-country routes . |
| 27 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 28 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 29 | Would you say your sound has changed over the years ? |
| 30 | Its relationship with the markets has throughout that time been one of independence , and the clearing procedure has evolved over the years . |