Example sentences of "have be [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some couples who have failed to hear what the other has been saying over a number of years may need the help of a third person , probably a trained counsellor , to get them talking again . |
| 2 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 3 | Any previous encounters will have been picked over a dozen times , the characters of the boys analysed in tedious detail , and interesting future possibilities considered . |
| 4 | Other techniques may also have been taken over the Atlantic by the conquistadores and , though lost from view of Spain , preserved in South America ; tremolo and on-the-box percussion , both used by King , are two of these . |
| 5 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 6 | According to a statement received by the weekly Oiga , Salinas accepted responsibility for the coup attempt and declared that its aim had been to hand over the presidency to Máximo San Román Cáceres , Fujimori 's dismissed First Vice-President named " constitutional president " by the dissolved Congress [ see p. 38846 ] . |
| 7 | Although the consultants in London seemed to use their beds more effectively , 1912 patients ( an average of 39.1 per consultant ) had been waiting over a year for admission , which implies a lack of resources . |
| 8 | There were beds available for those with particular problems , such as those who had been injecting over a long period . |
| 9 | After he 'd been offered the job Archie had been taken over the new building to see the general layout . |
| 10 | But Coun. Nicholas Thorne-Wallis ( Lab ) , chairman , said that no final decision had been taken over the proposals and Coun. Mrs Rose Davison ( Lab ) called for more options to be considered by the council . |
| 11 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 12 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 13 | Well over 400 individual environmental measures have been taken over the past 12 months to deliver our commitments , ranging from telephone helplines for those concerned about air quality to major international agreements on new standards for cars and water . |
| 14 | Erm , but , having been supported by each chief officer and general manager , you will see in paragraph eleven of the report , the various actions that have been taken over the last twelve months or so , and I would like to pick out particular the fact , that chief officers are now , operating or required to have effective arrangements for achieving equal opportunity in employment in their department or unit . |