Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubts had been growing over Merseyside 's ability to gain Objective One status and the estimated £1bn package of EC grants it could bring . |
| 2 | Peel ( 1966 ) considered that these would have taken a long time to form and their unidirectional nature may indicate that the north-east trades have been blowing over this area for a very long time . |
| 3 | On the basis of their commitment to an open and participatory democracy , Hartnett and Naish raise a number of major moral , social and educational issues arising from the drift to a more centralized system of control , in which managerial and bureaucratic priorities and solutions have been advanced over professional and community concerns . |
| 4 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 5 | The extent to which the Sussex population is involved in these movements is unknown , but at least some of our wintering birds move overland , and parties have been reported over Kingley Vale , Eartham , and West Chiltington recently , usually in spring . |
| 6 | The methods have been refined over the years , but not radically changed . |
| 7 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |
| 8 | You will soon discover that a bewildering variety of history books have been written over several decades on the modern period alone . |
| 9 | However , is it not the case that , under the present Government , thousands of miles of hedgerows have been lost over the years ? |
| 10 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
| 11 | One of the snake 's heads droops and three curved lines have been carved over the neck , representing either the severance of the neck or the actual curved blade used . |
| 12 | The lack of such participants has been aggravated over the years by high commission costs and clearing fees . |
| 13 | Here and there water had fretted the walls into tracery , which glittered as the spear-light slid across it ; elsewhere , colours had been washed over the rock in a shifting mingle of greens , blues and reds . |
| 14 | Sources close to the meeting of G7 senior government ministers , who had invited the deputy prime minister , Boris Fyodorov , as a last-minute guest , said they had laid the groundwork for fresh aid but no promises had been made over cash . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Meanwhile two coal-fired power stations have been scrapped over the past two years — a 600 MW station at Dordrecht and a 500 MW station in Amsterdam . |
| 17 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 18 | We do have information on the extent to which net conversions have been provided over the past well during the eighty one ninety |
| 19 | Although margins have been hit over the past few years by competition from contractors and because the company has kept its prices fairly constant , he said the decision to ‘ cross-skill ’ employees should result in increased margins . |
| 20 | Accordingly , a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years , as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 21 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
| 22 | Information on the effects of social work is frequently not systematically collected ; where a programme of research studies has been conducted over the past decade , it has often proved difficult to develop a co-ordinated body of knowledge which can be applied to future work . |
| 23 | On Clwyd limestone , fears had been expressed over the possibility of losing the trees along the top of the World 's End crags . |
| 24 | Such questions have been raised over the investments of Goldman Sachs 's Water Street Fund in the bonds of Tonka and of JCI . |
| 25 | Some fears have been expressed over the possibility of employers discriminating against ENs in favour of first level nurses . |
| 26 | More importantly it has also been the experience of the many students on whom the approach , exercises and problems have been piloted over the last four years . |
| 27 | The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 . |
| 28 | In addition , specialist teams have been engaged over the last few years in the systematic examination of the wide range of packaging materials used within the Group . |
| 29 | Dozens of gliders have been soaring over the region competing in one of the country 's largest gliding championships . |
| 30 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |