Example sentences of "have [vb pp] over [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Negligence can be thought of as an early form of product liability and has developed over the years to its present wide scope , although this is tempered to some extent by the growth of insurance . |
| 2 | In Thailand , for example , there is practised an ancient art of war which has developed over the centuries into a highly exciting spectator sport . |
| 3 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 4 | Our order book in the Middle East reflects the first-class reputation Wimpey has built over the years for the scope of its expertise and excellence of its workforce . |
| 5 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 6 | Optical Character Recognition ( OCR ) has advanced over the years from being a very imprecise science that needed special fonts ( you might remember printers being equipped with OCR A and OCR B ) . |
| 7 | I hope that it will reach a satisfactory conclusion and remove the substantial problem that it has laid over the lives of so many former customers of that bank . |
| 8 | It has progressed over the years to international status attracting many of the top riders from around the world . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Bragad 's men hold it , and all in it ; his ‘ Wares must have come over the ramparts in the night . ’ |
| 14 | After the door shut behind him , she sat looking at it , wondering what she would have done over the years without him . |
| 15 | None of these large animals could possibly have passed over the arms of the sea which now separates these countries , and their presence plainly indicates that a land communication must have existed since the origin of the species … ’ |
| 16 | For the Al Fayeds to have dissembled over the origins of their own money was hardly of great moment . |
| 17 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 18 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 19 | The french windows of the living-room stood open while they ate and by the time they reached the coffee stage darkness had closed over the hills across the water . |
| 20 | She asked him if he would lift the bicycle over a stile for her , she not having realized there was a stile to be crossed when she had embarked over the fields by herself . |
| 21 | ‘ You know the trouble we 've had over the years with MPs ’ secretaries ? ’ |
| 22 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 23 | In challenging the structural and cultural marginalization of Britain 's black minority communities , they also began to shift the terms around which British national identities had sedimented over the years of colonial domination and imperial grandeur and before . |
| 24 | The city of New York had sunk over the years into a position where there were disastrous levels of debt . |
| 25 | Who had reigned over the Mercians in the period before 633/4 is unknown . |
| 26 | Lines of enquiry suggested themselves from reported material which had accumulated over the years on possible energy effects at ancient sites . |
| 27 | France had survived over the centuries by its sheer pragmatism . |
| 28 | ‘ I assume you made it worth her while in other ways , but obviously I failed to discover from her own fair lips how much you thought she was worth , and I 'm damned sure you wo n't admit how much you 've paid over the odds for her favours . ’ |
| 29 | In the past Coleby had paid over the odds for things he wanted . |
| 30 | Japanese magazines have picked over the details of the imperial engagement , including the less flattering ones : Miss Owada 's creased kimono , her unsuitable confidence when talking to the press . |