Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] over [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 3 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 4 | In total the bungalow 's size has probably been quadrupled over the years with various extensions added when needed . |
| 5 | No 27 in the Historical Arms series , Allied and Enemy Aircraft is a reprint of a rare identification manual published by the French government in 1918 that illustrated 60 aircraft of French , English , American , German , Italian and Belgian origin ( in three-view drawings ) that may have been seen over the trenches during World War One . |
| 6 | The spokesman also admitted that it 's not the first time the ladies have been hauled over the coals for selling fags . |
| 7 | But he was angry , having just been hauled over the coals by Kragan and Frick for not getting the Englishman to talk . |
| 8 | This skin condition , caused by a large ‘ pox ’ virus , has been thought over the years to be restricted to children living in crowded , closed communities and adults who attend Turkish baths or indulge in all-in wrestling . |
| 9 | Such questions have been raised over the investments of Goldman Sachs 's Water Street Fund in the bonds of Tonka and of JCI . |
| 10 | Official standards of overcrowding have been raised over the years with the result that comparisons become difficult . |
| 11 | Bonaventure with a cheque for £8,000 , which had been raised over the years by the people of Hemlington for their centre . |
| 12 | The Colosseum was huge and wonderful to behold , even though much of its decorative sculpture had been stolen over the centuries for the building of many of Rome 's palaces . |
| 13 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 14 | This is reminiscent of the sort of inversion a fault-finding literary criticism can produce — which is not to deny , which is indeed to admit , that the Arab leaders and polemicists of the region have had their faults , including some of those which have been identified over the years by Commentary . |
| 15 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 16 | ‘ Now , however , this issue has been addressed again , this time taking into account what has been learned over the years about the effects of zero-point energy . |
| 17 | Many beautiful animal portraits have been submitted over the months of the competition , but it usually takes that special ‘ something ’ to create the magic of a prize-winning photograph — perhaps a bird captured in mid-flight , or the moment of sheer wonder on a child 's face as it encounters one of the several animal species now allowed to roam freely in the zoo grounds . |
| 18 | The construction of levadas to carry irrigation and drinking-water has always been a difficult feat of engineering , and many men have been killed over the years in their construction . |
| 19 | This concept has been refined over the years into ‘ How well do our Raphael holdings reflect his styles from the varying stages of his career ? ’ , leading in a recent , and extreme case , to the Italian government spending $1.5 million at Christie 's in 1991 on a St Catharine , a badly damaged sliver of a juvenile Raphael that had most of its surface paint washed away in the 1966 Florence flood . |
| 20 | A report which goes before Middlesbrough councillors on Wednesday says : ‘ Concern has been expressed over the activities of some of those employed to control access to licensed premises . |
| 21 | In Scotland , concern has been expressed over the implications of studio closures and job losses , but it has met with soothing words from the BBC 's executives and from its political masters in government . |
| 22 | The lack of such participants has been aggravated over the years by high commission costs and clearing fees . |
| 23 | Poor Father O'Hara had contracted cholera and died shortly after the withdrawal to the banqueting hall ; when his body had been heaved over the ramparts for the jackals and pariah dogs ( the only way that remained for disposing of the dead ) , a number of heavy metal beads , crosses , Saints and Virgins had been discovered in his effects . |
| 24 | The same kind of links which have been established over the years between law firms and business on the one hand , and UK government departments on the other , must be forged with European institutions . |