Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 . |
| 2 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 3 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
| 4 | Police , firemen and council workers had worked through the night to restore the scene of the atrocity , and fresh paving stones had already been placed over the gaping holes left by the blasts . |
| 5 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 8 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 9 | The Lothian proposals for assessing needs have been developed over the past year by the Lothian Assessment and Care Management Steering Group — an interagency group chaired by Lothian Social Work with representatives from Lothian Health Board ( medicine , nursing and planning ) , General Practitioners , District Council housing departments , housing associations , voluntary and private sector organisations and users ' and carers ' groups . |
| 10 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 11 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 12 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |
| 13 | The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area . |
| 14 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 15 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 16 | The firm 's market share in Italy 's public sector has been eroded over the past three years and he says Olivetti , unlike its principal European competitors ( Siemens-Nixdorf of Germany and Bull of France ) , has enjoyed no particular privileges in its home market . |
| 17 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 18 | Boy charged with rape A 15-YEAR-OLD boy appeared before magistrates yesterday charged with rape and other serious sexual offences involving young children , alleged to have been committed over a lengthy period . |
| 19 | In it , Ptolemy summarized much of the scientific knowledge which had been amassed over the previous centuries . |
| 20 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 21 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 22 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 23 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 24 | Chaovalit 's entry to government was expected to raise the prestige of the administration which had been beset over the previous year by a series of corruption scandals and labour disputes . |
| 25 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 26 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 27 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |