Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In common with many bass amplification manufacturers , Trace Elliot have been trying over the last few years to build powerful , yet compact bass gear to ease the strain on the poor bass player 's back . |
| 2 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 3 | Since then they have regularly cleaned the slate and have been laying over the slate side by side . |
| 4 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 5 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 6 | Sir , — I have been puzzling over the purpose of P. Cowan 's ‘ Democracy ’ letter . |
| 7 | Doctors have been puzzling over the cause of acne for many years and trying to find a cure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 10 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 11 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 12 | Dozens of gliders have been soaring over the region competing in one of the country 's largest gliding championships . |
| 13 | their attitudes would , would lead you believe that they have changed and they have become more receptive to the kind of things women have been saying over the years . |
| 14 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 15 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 16 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 17 | Climbers visiting the newly developed Thrang and Striddle quarries in Langdale have been parking over the access to the nearby farm , which is also a public right of way . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I have tried to describe the process of setting the direction for our constituent businesses and the company as a whole , which I and my colleagues have been evolving over the past few years . |
| 20 | ‘ What we have been doing over the last few weekends is exercising our right to search someone if we have a reasonable belief that they are carrying a weapon , ’ said Mr Wood . |
| 21 | We have been doing over the past few nights |
| 22 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
| 23 | Academic results have been plummeting over the past decade , thanks largely to the expansion of the underclass and the influx of non-English-speaking immigrants . |
| 24 | Conversely , if you have been papering over the cracks of a relationship these same eclipses will seek them out . |
| 25 | It will be a real chance to learn in a practical way many of the things we have been studying over the last few months . |