Example sentences of "have been [verb] over " in BNC.

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31 A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) .
32 The average size of transactions , it was noted above , has been rising over time and now amounts to about £1 million for transactions with customers and about £4 million for intra-market business .
33 There are several erudite and comprehensive books available to guide the unwary through the maze that has been constructed over the centuries to form our current property law and which seems to be continually evolving .
34 The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership .
35 This has been cleared over a width sufficient for the new track , but leaving those bushes and trees which were to be retained to form part of the landscape of the line .
36 This has been cleared over a width sufficient for the new track , but leaving those bushes and trees which were to be retained to form part of the landscape of the line .
37 Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations .
38 Guests saw how the plant has been upgraded over recent years and capacity increased from 45,000 to 70,000 tonnes .
39 To put this into context it is worth taking a look at what has been achieved over recent decades in obtaining access agreements for canoes to pass along our rivers .
40 ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability .
41 In the first place it must be asked why , if this growing equality between spouses has been achieved over the past hundred or so years , has the militant feminist movement grown throughout the world during the 1960s and 1970s ?
42 In fact although sometimes the rate of progress or the pace of technology seems sort of frustratingly slow if you look at what has actually changed , what has been achieved over the last five years , it 's quite incredible .
43 This Government are committed to an effective policy of regional development , and I remind the hon. Member for Gateshead , East that much has been achieved over the past 10 years .
44 It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time .
45 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 .
46 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 .
47 A cruel analysis of the last 30 years in education might say that the succession of Schools Council , then the Schools Curriculum Development Committee and then the NCC neatly summarises the way that education has been perceived over this period .
48 gold 's value has been maintained over the centuries due to the limited quantity of new supplies ( maximum output , at the present time , 1,000 tonnes per annum ) , only about 100,000 tonnes having been mined since 4,000 BC ;
49 Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time .
50 In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period .
51 They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment .
52 But one person , however , is undaunted by the corporate blood that has been spilled over La Cinq : Silvio Berlusconi , the Italian media owner is now bidding for Britain 's Channel 5 after twice failing to revive its French namesake .
53 A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section .
54 Concern has been expressed over the bid which , if successful , would make the UK travel industry a duopoly with Airtours and Thomson as the market leaders .
55 Over recent years considerable concern has been expressed over the introduction of new diseases caused by bacteria and viruses in particular .
56 Concern has been expressed over the accuracy of death certificates in general , and certification of death from asthma in particular , but my study suggests that the inaccuracy may be much greater than previously realised .
57 Since the 1920s concern has been expressed over the fact that it tends to be the younger and better qualified people who are 51 leaving the less dynamic North , thus undermining the ability of the latter to rejuvenate itself .
58 Particular concern has been expressed over the construction of an air base at Shindand in western Afghanistan .
59 A report which goes before Middlesbrough councillors on Wednesday says : ‘ Concern has been expressed over the activities of some of those employed to control access to licensed premises .
60 In Scotland , concern has been expressed over the implications of studio closures and job losses , but it has met with soothing words from the BBC 's executives and from its political masters in government .
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