Example sentences of "[verb] been [verb] [adv] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 2 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 3 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 4 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 5 | A long , narrow band of cloud has been moving down over the country and will continue to do so throughout the night before it moves away eastwards tomorrow , being replaced by clear skies to the west . |
| 6 | The inquiry has been scaled down over the year as leads have fizzled out . |
| 7 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that if the Labour party implemented even a fraction of the spending priorities that it has been spreading around over the past year or two , to the tune of £30 billion or £40 billion extra expenditure , it would not only have to face the problem of raising taxation , but would have to resort to massive borrowing , which would increase interest rates and greatly damage the economy ? |
| 8 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 9 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 10 | It has been tailored for its purpose and has been tested extensively over the past 12 years . |
| 11 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 12 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 13 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 14 | MORE than anything else , this week 's Labour Party conference should kill off a ritual that has been acted out over the years in a hundred radio and television studios . |
| 15 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 16 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 17 | His work has been sold all over the world and he recently held a successful one-man exhibition in Paris . |
| 18 | The method has been imitated all over the world , in places as diverse as New Zealand , Italy , Russia , England , California , Australia , Spain and India , and that list is by no means complete . |
| 19 | So far £9.5 million has been paid out over the crash in December four years ago , which killed 35 people . |
| 20 | ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure . |
| 21 | Thanks in large part to electronic paging this has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years . |
| 22 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 23 | If it had been windy our votes would have been blown all over the forest . ’ |
| 24 | Erm , it could have been spread out over the whole twenty five years as it is with other products , but in life assurance at the moment , it 's out of those first four years . |
| 25 | Aircraft do appear however in the chapter on Calshot where good coverage of the various types to have been based there over the years is included . |
| 26 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 27 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 28 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |
| 29 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 30 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |