Example sentences of "[been] [verb] over [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 . |
| 2 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 3 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 4 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 5 | The Lothian proposals for assessing needs have been developed over the past year by the Lothian Assessment and Care Management Steering Group — an interagency group chaired by Lothian Social Work with representatives from Lothian Health Board ( medicine , nursing and planning ) , General Practitioners , District Council housing departments , housing associations , voluntary and private sector organisations and users ' and carers ' groups . |
| 6 | The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area . |
| 7 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 8 | Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period . |
| 9 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 10 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 11 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 12 | It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf . |
| 13 | The sun was casting a pleasant subdued clear radiance through the brown blinds which had been drawn over the south-facing skylight . |
| 14 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 15 | This stone had not , apparently , been transported over a great distance . |
| 16 | Er Mr Chairman , ladies and gentlemen I 'd like to present the early result of an audit of of the prostate which has been performed over the northern region . |
| 17 | Since the hastily-arranged press conference to launch the discussion document setting out the new scheme , the vice-chairman of Suffolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group has been pouring over the fine detail of the Ministry documents , and he likes what he reads , calling it ‘ a very exciting package . ’ |
| 18 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 19 | Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings , with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid ( Crowfoot 1952 ) . |
| 20 | Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time . |
| 21 | well I am convinced by Andrew 's explanation erm I would like to say in terms of when we look at the staff costs against budget , and we came in at only eleven thousand pounds less , er I think that is a erm that we , we , we can congratulate our business manager , on the good control that 's been exercised over the past year . |
| 22 | Not only have health fears recently been raised over the insulating compound sulphur hexafluoride ( Chem . |
| 23 | Drainage geochemistry has been attempted over the Torridonian sandstone cover to locate possible leakage of metals from the underlying Lewisian . |
| 24 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 25 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |
| 26 | Although lacking a formal programme , Fujimori had rejected " shock " adjustments at a time when he claimed that the buying power of the majority of people had been halved over the previous year and that the needs of the poorest sectors had still to be met . |
| 27 | Its figure is higher than the CBO 's largely because it does not take into account the fact that the quarterly long-bond auctions had already been pruned over the past year , from around $12 billion to $1.25 billion . |
| 28 | His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors . |
| 29 | Am hour later the Emperor 's coach passed the corpse , disturbing the flies which had been crawling over the dead Lieutenant 's face and laying their eggs in his blood-filled mouth and nostrils . |
| 30 | It is interesting that the Bank of Ireland spokesman who gave that figure should have been specific , as members will be aware that many figures have been rumoured over the past couple of months . |