Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 2 | For Cable & Wireless , the CITIC investment would remove what analysts describe as the ‘ political factor ’ which has been hanging over Hong Kong Telecom . |
| 3 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 5 | The average size of transactions , it was noted above , has been rising over time and now amounts to about £1 million for transactions with customers and about £4 million for intra-market business . |
| 6 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 7 | Gossips down in Houston insist that Compaq Computer Corp will announce its withdrawal from the Advanced Computing Environment initiative within a couple of weeks because its business is making very high volume personal computers , and it ca n't see the MIPS Computer Systems Inc RISC-based machines ever reaching those kinds of volumes ; no-one was available to comment at Compaq but its strategy has been shifting over the past year — the investment in Silicon Graphics Inc has been sold , and founder and president Rod Canion was ousted from the company after differences over strategy . |
| 8 | But quite a few samples are thought to have nitrogens of about 1.4% , and for that quality of sample the suggestion in the trade is that a premium of up to £20/t could be available , though this is compared with a spot feed market that has been weakening over the past week . |
| 9 | she 's been out and Tina has been watching over her |
| 10 | The president , in the middle as usual , has been poring over budget items in the millions , the tiny cogs of the federal machine . |
| 11 | The Beaverton , Oregon-based company has been working over the last few months to staff up a new business unit to concentrate on low-end multi-processors , an area it feels offers great potential . |
| 12 | Since the hastily-arranged press conference to launch the discussion document setting out the new scheme , the vice-chairman of Suffolk Farming and Wildlife Advisory Group has been pouring over the fine detail of the Ministry documents , and he likes what he reads , calling it ‘ a very exciting package . ’ |
| 13 | Over the past fifteen years concern has been growing over the environmental effects and social costs of ‘ acid rain' . |
| 14 | The buzzard population in the province has been growing over the last few years and is believed to currently stand at 650 . |
| 15 | One kind of answer suggests that bird vision has been improving over the same evolutionary timespan as insect camouflage . |
| 16 | However , Hakim ( 1982 ) re-analysed the data and found that ‘ the results … confirm the association between crime and unemployment , and suggest it has been increasing over time ’ ( p.453 ) . |
| 17 | AS THE clocks go back , astronomers are set to announce that the length of the day has been increasing over the centuries . |
| 18 | The Christian World noted in 1882 , ‘ The great wave of Catholic sentiment which has been sweeping over the Established Church … has sensibly cast its spray over the Nonconformist bodies of the country ’ . |
| 19 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 22 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 23 | They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , we have pretty well absolutely ruled out any notion of terrorists , ’ said Milton ‘ This is precisely the kind of job the IRA would have been falling over themselves to claim as their own , and it would be a ludicrous target for any other international loonies we can think of . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
| 27 | There were few customers and the landlady had been leaning over the bar reading the Daily Mirror . |
| 28 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 29 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 30 | The prospect had been hanging over us for so many months that once Father ceased trading , it was as though the weight of worry was lifted . |