Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 4 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 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 | Will my right hon. Friend undertake that when she next talks to the leaders of Kenya she will communicate the grave anxiety felt in the House about human rights in Kenya and the way in which some opposition politicians are being treated and have been treated in the past few years ? |
| 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 | Although various endoscopic treatments have been developed in the past 10 years , heat probe thermocoagulation and multipolar electrocoagulation are the two most promising techniques for treating bleeding peptic ulcers . |
| 12 | We 're particularly aggrieved because we suffered very badly from the storm in 1987 and we 've been struggling in the past few years of drought to replant , ’ said Mr Myers . |
| 13 | Another pictorial ‘ must ’ which my agent missed was the exciting monoline , which now serves the city , and for which several new stations have been erected in the past couple of years . |
| 14 | Another pictorial ‘ must ’ which my agent missed was the exciting monoline , which now serves the city , and for which several new stations have been erected in the past couple of years . |
| 15 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 16 | As we come to the end of this Parliament , will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to give us some insight into the Government 's long-term policy which has been formulated during the past 13 years ? |
| 17 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 18 | The race has been won in the past two years by a Gold Cup winner-The Thinker 12 months ago after being successful at Cheltenham the previous season , while the 1985 Gold Cup hero Forgive ‘ N ’ Forget won here in 1987 . |
| 19 | One in six residents of the New Cross estate have been attacked in the past two years , and a quarter have been hit by break-ins , a recent council survey showed . |
| 20 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 23 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 24 | In October the Russian Orthodox Bishops ' Council said that nearly 3,000 church buildings had been reopened in the past 18 months , bringing the number of working parishes to 9,734 ; the number of theological students had doubled to 3,948 . |
| 25 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 28 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 29 | Does he agree that what they need is support and proper resources so that they can carry out their work , not what has been happening over the past 12 years — continual restructuring and reforms which do the service no good and break up the comprehensive national health service that we all know ? |
| 30 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |