Example sentences of "[been] [verb] over " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | French sovereignty , it was suggested , had been recognized over Indo-China ; but the paper maintained that this did not imply any commitment on the part of the US to assist France to exert its authority over the Indo-Chinese people . |
5 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
6 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
7 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
8 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
9 | A white cloth had been placed over her unpillowed head hiding her injuries , but the room was filled with an overpowering stench like smouldering wool . |
10 | Her body was bruised , from the beatings she had received , and a balaclava had been placed over her head . |
11 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
16 | Gava had been criticized over his failure to deal with organized crime and had been accused by the Communist Party ( PCI ) of links with the Camorra , the Neapolitan branch of the Mafia . |
17 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
20 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
21 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
22 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
23 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
24 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |
25 | It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years . |
26 | Alternative approaches to leadership theory have been developed over tie years , and some of these will be described under the headings of : |
27 | While case management has empirical referents which have been developed over many years ( largely in the USA ) care management has , until recently , had none . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
30 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |