Example sentences of "[verb] have been [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 2 | Large numbers of animals — a particularly aristocratic breed of sheep , with black heads and legs , and long white coats that look to have been draped over them , like wigs , rather than grown naturally ; sleek , monochrome cattle ; and pottoks as well as full-grown horses , all seem to spend an agreeable and nutritious summer on these high pastures . |
| 3 | The incident involved the release of radiocative dust amounting to five times the company 's average annual gaseous emissions ; the dust is thought to have been deposited over the neighbouring towns of Workington and Whitehaven . |
| 4 | Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period . |
| 5 | There is no mention of Lear 's work on Birds ; everywhere , in the press in particular , a veil seems to have been cast over Lear 's contribution . |
| 6 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |
| 7 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 8 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |