Example sentences of "[be] build [adv prt] over the " in BNC.

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1 Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds .
2 While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months .
3 These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report .
4 Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation .
5 George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years .
6 The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators .
7 Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin .
8 Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’
9 A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels .
10 Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner .
11 Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ?
12 The stocking level would be built up over the weeks .
13 They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions .
14 At other points the road was built out over the river , at one point over the top of former pilchard cellars , still to be seen .
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