Example sentences of "[noun sg] over the [noun pl] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | RELATIVES of three IRA terrorists shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar will learn tonight whether a campaign to put the Government in the dock over the killings has been successful . |
| 2 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 3 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 4 | Their influence over the masses had been tenuous even at the height of their prestige in 1905 . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 6 | In a number of instances , the Crown 's formal legal title over the dominions has been terminated . |
| 7 | He was acquitted , but not before the dockers and other waterfront workers had entered the dispute in support of the seamen and victory over the employers had been won . |
| 8 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 9 | A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness . |
| 10 | The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent . |
| 11 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 12 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |