Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] [prep] the year " in BNC.
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| 1 | From 1066 and Battle of Hastings , you pass through the Abbey Gatehouse and see how the town has developed over the years . |
| 2 | Very obviously when this town was designed and laid out and nobody foresaw the growth of the private motor car , er today private motor car is accepted , but in a town which was built perhaps the idea that one in twenty would own a motor car and we 're now faced with the probably one in three have a motor car , we 're now faced with a problem which can only detract from life in the town , also the fact that huge lorries are passing through what were envisaged as quiet residential neighbourhoods with a consequent breaking of curbs and of paving stones where the lorries are compelled to mount the pavings in order to get round parked cars and things of that nature it detracts from the life in Harlow I do , I think a considerable extent , erm , the other factor is that there 's become a lack of pride in the town by the people who live in it , this is seen from the amount of rubbish , and refuse that is dropped from the minor vandalism that goes on the graffiti , er particularly in underpasses where people are walking to the town centre and that , those are the things where the town has lost its way , when we first came here you never saw bits of paper and packages from sweets and cigarettes and things , perhaps maybe because the package industry has developed over the years and that er whereas whenever we had responsibility for taking a small child out , if it had sweets it was encouraged to put the wrappings in its pocket until it got home , now of course it 's encouraged to drop it just where it wants to and er this not only applies to children , some of the worst culprits are the adults who leave the , leave the public houses with a can of beer to drink on the way home and drop it just when they 've finished the last drop of beer or the fish and chip paper 's just dropped . |
| 3 | Dealing with drivers at this tender age obviously sparked an interest in transport which has developed over the years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Seven races made up the first championship and that number has fluctuated over the years . |
| 6 | Practice has differed over the years . |
| 7 | The choice between lignocaine and bretylium has varied over the years , with comparative trials showing no difference in outcome between the two agents . |
| 8 | Space this year is limited and I will not attempt to summarise the rich record of activity outlined in the Annual Report of the Law Society , but briefly consider how the theme of ‘ One Profession ’ has fared through the year . |
| 9 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 10 | His preoccupation with conservation has grown over the years , but even then it was nothing new . |
| 11 | This list has grown over the years . |
| 12 | Its membership , appointed for renewable four-year terms , has grown over the years and has proved , as it was intended to be , a useful sounding board , especially as it quickly subdivided itself into specialist groups of experts on specific topics — in which , in fact , most of the work of the Committee was to be done . |
| 13 | How now to understand my passion for Glasgow that has grown over the years of absence from Scotland ? |
| 14 | Inter-bank lending has grown over the years as money markets have become deregulated and as deposits are moved from one currency to another to take advantage of different rates of interest between different countries . |
| 15 | Ivars has built over the years a series of light aircraft , most employing a faithful Cirrus Minor I engine . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 18 | The hotel has expanded over the years and complex of buildings surrounds the hotel 's historic bowling green — the second oldest in Britain — complete with a protected 600 year old yew tree . |
| 19 | The rail network has expanded over the years , and in 1976 , the Railway Inspectorate gave permission for brake van rides , steam-hauled , to operate from a platform on road three , operated by such museum stalwarts of the day as ‘ Lucy ’ , and ‘ North Western Gas Board ’ . |
| 20 | Please do not be concerned about measuring how much NI has done over the years ; it is not easy to quantify the awareness , understanding and other benefits your publication has brought to the children of the Third World . |
| 21 | Quite recently the Environmental Department has become semi-autonomous with Russell Jones as its Chief Environmental Health Officer and we know the good work which Russell has done over the years . |
| 22 | Farming thrives as it has done down the years and now with the swallows come the caravans to the clifftop with people in search of sea , sand and serenity . |
| 23 | Indeed , I pay tribute to all the work that my right hon. Friend has done throughout the year with regard to events in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union . |
| 24 | Er , for , for , what N C V O has done in the year . |
| 25 | He has dedicated his entire career to the development of sport in Scotland and I am sure all Council members will want to join me in thanking him for the commitment he has shown over the years . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The ability to deal with crisis is something Cuckney has cultivated over the years . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | She notes that a more detailed look at the results above shows that boys are more likely to obtain three A level passes than girls , even though the gap between them has narrowed over the years . |
| 30 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |