Example sentences of "[conj] it [verb] [verb] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corrosion emanated from the joint between the bottom of the pressure dome and the fuselage and there was nicotine tar staining on the edge of the corroded area indicating that it had developed over a relatively long period . |
| 2 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 3 | He urged the world to " address the question of Palestine by the same criteria that it had applied over the question of Kuwait " . |
| 4 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 5 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 6 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 7 | However , the most damning indictment of the Conservative government 's record in housing is that it has presided over a massive increase in homelessness . |
| 8 | I hope that it will reach a satisfactory conclusion and remove the substantial problem that it has laid over the lives of so many former customers of that bank . |
| 9 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 10 | A first step in the process is to examine the gap between what the company income is likely to be from the products now in production and the income that it wishes to have over the next planning period . |
| 11 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 12 | The government has bombarded savers with opportunities to buy shares — generally on the cheap — in recognisable and profitable enterprises , it has tempted them with a succession of tax breaks designed to promote share ownership , and it has presided over the most sustained equity bull market of modern times . |
| 13 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |
| 14 | I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge . |
| 15 | And then — and the memory was fleeting , but it had grown over the years — then she had reached to the boy … |
| 16 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |
| 17 | Above him a raven cawed as it flew to hunt over the mudflats along the river . |
| 18 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 19 | I spent much of my childhood in the New Forest and have watched with sadness as it has deteriorated over the decades . |