Example sentences of "have occur [prep] [art] past " in BNC.

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1 To a certain extent that was inevitable as a result of the changes that have occurred over the past three or four Governments and I am certain that it will continue to improve .
2 The ‘ good ’ policemen and women know their area : the sites of trouble and danger , as Holdaway describes them ( 1983 : 39–42 ) , which need special attention , the places to avoid without having further back-up , the places where events and incidents have occurred in the past , the people on whom to focus attention , such as the ‘ troublesome families ’ in whom crime historically runs or the VIPs in the area who get special protective care .
3 He is critical of some of the excesses of self-protection that have occurred in the past , but is firm in his commitment to the cab-rank rule , under which , quoting Rumpole , it is the barrister 's ‘ sacred duty .
4 Costs and revenues that have occurred in the past can not be changed .
5 Second , the furore obscured the fact that Velikovsky was making an important point : catastrophes have occurred in the past .
6 I will return to this point later on , but I do not apologize for emphasizing it , because tragedies have occurred in the past .
7 The 1987 SORP did not elaborate but notable examples have occurred in the past when high-rise council flats have been demolished relatively soon after construction : local authorities have decided that housing revenue accounts could not and should not bear the burden of extinguishing the associated debt in the year of demolition .
8 Other things are where people are throwing fireworks around thinking it 's a great joke , erm serious injuries have occurred in the past with that .
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