Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over a " 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 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 4 | According to colleagues , whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts , the sliver of wood was four centimetres long . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Now and again , of course , you have to deal with the awkward moments , like someone reading aloud from a Sunday paper the ‘ sordid story of perverted vice ’ which has obviously been concocted over a few jars by a hack hounded by deadline . |
| 9 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 10 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 11 | A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose . |
| 13 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This stone had not , apparently , been transported over a great distance . |
| 17 | Such dresses may have been worn over a sleeved under-dress which generally received no fastenings , with some exceptions which were secured at the wrist with a clasp which may carry evidence of braid ( Crowfoot 1952 ) . |
| 18 | Certain conduct may , rather than effect a variation of the agreement generally , have the effect of creating an estoppel in a particular case , not infrequently in connection with the possible expulsion of a partner on the ground of his breach of provisions in the agreement where his behaviour has in fact been tolerated over a considerable time . |
| 19 | Jadeite objects have been recovered over a territory extending from Brittany to the Rhineland as well as over the British Isles as far north as north-east Scotland , far beyond the known sources of the raw material in Piedmont and Switzerland . |
| 20 | If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’ |
| 21 | He might look like an old man who 's been run over a few times to you , but to me … ’ he puffed his chest out even further ‘ … he 's a vicious criminal . ’ |
| 22 | A rope had been thrown over a low beam in the room and tied to the top of the Bookman 's cage . |
| 23 | Beer had been thrown over a local and Slatter was obviously to blame . |
| 24 | A striking Norwegian experiment , in which a glass roof has been put over a whole catchment , shows the degree of such ecosystem damage . |
| 25 | With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area . |
| 26 | That is exactly what has happened with that company because the costs of the base operations have been spread over a much wider network . |
| 27 | The internal economic geography of the UK has been reworked over a century by fundamental change in the nature and orientation of exports , which has reflected the success of individual industries and their factories . |
| 28 | Restrictions on advertising and fees have been relaxed over a wider front . |
| 29 | Er improvement schemes and measures were identified and have been implemented over a period of time . |
| 30 | From the enhanced provision of electronic delivery by the Document Supply Centre to a huge programme for retrospectively converting music , map and manuscript catalogues which have been created over a period of more than one hundred and fifty years , to the question of how to extend the provisions of the Copyright Act 1911 to include legal deposit of digital publications , the Library faces a formidable set of tasks arising from the electronic revolution . |