Example sentences of "it have been [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 2 | The literature on accounting theory is relatively new ( the bulk of it has been generated over the last 50 years ) , and it has , until recently , been almost exclusively concerned with public limited companies ( Whittington , 1986 ) . |
| 3 | David Cross talks about how it has been portrayed over the centuries . |
| 4 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ It has been lowered over my head many times , and then , as I have reached up to smite it , it has passed before me and consumed many people . |
| 6 | Built in the 15th Century , it has been modernised over the years , but maintains much of the original style . |
| 7 | It has been earned over many years through dedicated teamwork and attention to detail . |
| 8 | The k'va was the colour of straw because it had been cooked over boiling k'vass , an ale which was made from fermenting the raw grain , and it steamed gently . |
| 9 | Extremely , you know I mean if , if it had been checked over regular maybe or something like that , I do n't know how often it gets checked over or anything but you know er that gantry 's supposed to be you know , kind of really safe , so many sensors on it which are supposed to stop that from happening . |
| 10 | It had been tracked over a three-year period by satellite and radio beacon and its movements have demonstrated that four separate currents affect the region of Antarctica near the Ross Ice shelf . |
| 11 | It had been welded over the preceding decades by the authoritarianism of manager Bill Struth , staunch Presbyterian traditions , the famous ‘ iron curtain ’ defence and tough captains like Big George Young . |
| 12 | It 's been renovated over the last three months at Gloucestershire airport at Staverton near Gloucester , bound for a new life in Australia ferrying tourists on a two week tour of the outback . |