Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] over the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apparently calm , almost holiday mood of this Bosnian couple disguises the sheer terror they 've endured over the past few weeks . |
| 2 | For instance , if people have n't exhibited management ability in what they think are the worthwhile things they 've done over the past 30 years or so , the chance of them ever being good managers is remote . |
| 3 | One of the most positive aspects of Switchboard that I 've seen over the past seven years , apart from the callers , has been the way that many of its members have continuously struggled to put their politics and convictions about gay and other rights into practice ( though some of them might not care to put it that way ) and the strength that working on it has given some people to do so elsewhere . |
| 4 | There are no outstanding flashes in organic chemistry , things move step by step , and the way they 've moved over the past thirty or forty years is quite apparent if anybody looks round their home . |
| 5 | ONCE YOU 'VE got over the severe attack of ‘ Ooer ’ s which this band 's rather indecent euphemistic name inevitably provokes , Joni 's Butterfly reveal themselves ( sorry ) as perfectly innocent pop fun for all the family , with a lyrical undercurrent of sex , drugs , avarice and Satanic goat-molesting . |
| 6 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 7 | Use our Best Buys tables , starting on page 150 , to compare the products we 've reviewed over the past year . |
| 8 | This month , our Top Ten features the best 486SX machines we 've reviewed over the past 18 months , and it 's all designed to make your buying decisions easier . |
| 9 | We 've lost over the past two years or , two or three years we 've lost about 60 per cent of our biggest trading accounts through soft loans from the big brewers . |
| 10 | There is no better example of the logical and ideological confusions into which we have fallen over the charging issue than in pre-school provision . |
| 11 | From the interest generated , friendships have developed over the intervening years between the various 8th Air Force veterans ' associations in America and FOTE members . |
| 12 | What we have witnessed over the past decade is the emergence of a whole host of competing and conflicting forms of local politics — different places have begun , in political terms , to behave very differently and British politics is now characterized by diversity rather than homogeneity . |
| 13 | I have been very pleased with my performance , with my success and the achievements which I have enjoyed over the past 20 years . |
| 14 | While bank deposits have stagnated over the past three years , mutual funds , which are mostly outside the banks ' domain , have grown by two-thirds . |
| 15 | And I 'm sure that this report on the health action area is going to show some fairly , erm give us some fairly staggering erm revelations about about the health of Oxford citizens that 's going to surprise people at large when they find out how badly people have fared over the past ten years when we 've had the Tories in office who 've really done their very , very best to make the health divide of this country in a very poor state . |
| 16 | ‘ What we have done over the past two years is to improve on our ability to retain the ball in contact , to drive very successfully as units ( as the All Blacks found to their cost in Lille ) and to deep those drives going . |
| 17 | What we shall do , as we have done over the past three years , is to ensure that poorer pensioners — those who have not benefited from the result of our general policies towards pensioners which have increased pensioners ' real living standards by over 34 per cent . |
| 18 | Erm , on entertainment , we 're spending a lot of money on organic growth and have done over the past two or three years and er , it 's very well spent but again , we 're growing our businesses , erm , er , rather than acquiring them . |
| 19 | Many farms I have visited over the past 10 years have needed little more than a re-organisation of their existing system and some basic drainage alterations . |
| 20 | ( i ) Is the applicant required to attend a training course , and if so , how many ? ( a ) The application form for panel membership will ask for details of training courses applicants have attended over the past two or three years . |
| 21 | ( ii ) In addition , the details of training courses applicants have attended over the previous three years will be used as background information and will be relevant to demonstrate interest in medical negligence litigation , commitment and willingness to learn . |
| 22 | As a result , however , of the market conditions that have applied over the past year the 12 month period of grace has in some cases proved insufficient . |
| 23 | It may be correct that these properties would fall into this Band at 1993 values , but values have risen over the past two years ( despite national trends in house prices ) . |
| 24 | Partly because it is profitable : its pre-tax profits have tripled over the past ten years , to £604m ( $980m ) on sales of £5.6 billion ( in some 30 countries ) in the year to March 1990 . |
| 25 | What kind of deal do they think Americans Indians have had over the past 200 years ? |
| 26 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 27 | Well , Jenny , now we have got over the initial emotionalism of our reunion , perhaps one or two points might be clarified for me . |
| 28 | That removes the Government 's mask which they have worn over the past few months as they have tried to pursue the idea of cheap gas . |
| 29 | Not a single foreigner who attended the opening ceremonies , not one of the travellers from France , England , Italy , and Russia , who have journeyed over the half-finished line , went away without purchasing some silks , embroideries , metal-work , arms , or knives . |
| 30 | Ford 's employees are also wont to point out that their mortgage payments have rocketed over the past year and negotiations will take place against a background in which interest rates seem to be moving in one direction only . |