Example sentences of "been [verb] over the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 6 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The sun was casting a pleasant subdued clear radiance through the brown blinds which had been drawn over the south-facing skylight . |
| 10 | Somehow , step by precarious step , I had been drawn over the invisible divide and was now truly a part of the family hareem . |
| 11 | And on this sir I , the way the discussion 's been going over the last couple of days , erm I would like to point you at the experience of the Nottinghamshire structure plan which I 've got direct personal experience , where there the panel was persuaded to commend locations that is n't right for structure plan but was a felt able to erm name a district or district council in whose area such a strategic site might be located . |
| 12 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 13 | This tuck stitch is easy to work on the Singer Big Nine and you can see from this sample that by working with a lighter shade for the background for the first four pattern repeats followed by a darker one for the background , similar amounts of yarn have been used over the same number of rows . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not only have health fears recently been raised over the insulating compound sulphur hexafluoride ( Chem . |
| 19 | Drainage geochemistry has been attempted over the Torridonian sandstone cover to locate possible leakage of metals from the underlying Lewisian . |
| 20 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 21 | ‘ It developed out of the work Cork Film Festival 's been doing over the past number of years . |
| 22 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | His memory may have been tarnished over the previous decade with the acknowledgement of his serious policy errors . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 30 | It was as though a white cloak had been thrown over the entire countryside , a cloak which gleamed beneath an enormous ghostly-white moon , robbing the night of its darkness . |