Example sentences of "has [verb] over [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 4 | In Thailand , for example , there is practised an ancient art of war which has developed over the centuries into a highly exciting spectator sport . |
| 5 | It has been greatly influenced by the tangled confusion into which the Anglican Communion has stumbled over the ordination of women . |
| 6 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 7 | He has given over the training to Druim and Unish . |
| 8 | Nurse Catherine Cockborn said : ‘ The change that has come over the pair of them is absolutely amazing . |
| 9 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer . |
| 12 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 13 | Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | ( Columbia Tristar , 15 , rental only ) Stanley & Iris Once one has got over the novelty of seeing Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro don blue collars to play working-class lost souls , Martin Ritt 's adaptation of the novel Union Street ( set on Teeside ) is fairly absorbing . |
| 17 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 18 | One tree has been uprooted and has toppled over the Water of Leith . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 21 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 22 | As Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1987 , p. 23 ) argue , the government ‘ has presided over the proliferation of single-function quasi-government agencies ’ . |
| 23 | A ROW has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle . |
| 24 | A MULTI-MILLION pound row has erupted over the construction of the controversial coal imports terminal in Bootle . |
| 25 | In the case of the urban riots , it is the nature of the television coverage which is in essence inciting other young people in different parts of the country to civil disobedience , whereas in the case of football violence , the implication is that the perceived lack of moral leadership by the broadcasting corporations has led over a period of years to a general moral climate in this country which fails to provide adequate controls over the behaviour of the nation 's youth . |
| 26 | It has progressed over the years to international status attracting many of the top riders from around the world . |
| 27 | What has happened over the course of this century has been an improvement in people 's states of fitness at particular ages so that whereas at the beginning of the century people in their sixties were regarded as being old , it is clear that people who survive into their sixties are now mainly , as is described below , generally quite fit . |
| 28 | And through this kind of general interest in history , which is not started in academic circles , but elsewhere , and through the interests of adult education works and working groups of various kinds in history , and through some of the best history taught in schools , we 've really broadened our notions of , of , of what history is , and one of the most lively recent developments has been erm the idea of history workshops , where people themselves recall erm what has happened over the course of their own lifetimes , using oral history , tape recorders , and things of that kind . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | If this glitch activity has continued over the lifetime of the pulsar , roughly 5% of the moment of inertia of the neutron star must now be effectively removed in the form of pinned vortices ; but according to current models , only 1% of the total moment of inertia is involved in the whole of the superfluid that interpenetrates the inner crust , where pinning might take place . |