Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be [vb pp] 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 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 3 | No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office . |
| 4 | Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah well , the Pete Blake play has been perfected over the years . |
| 6 | It has been a traumatic time for everyone at Burston during the past year or so and a great deal has been achieved over a very short time . |
| 7 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 8 | With both Cardiff and Newport dormant in recent years , other clubs have benefited from the movement of players ; talent has been spread over a wider area . |
| 9 | A striking Norwegian experiment , in which a glass roof has been put over a whole catchment , shows the degree of such ecosystem damage . |
| 10 | As a finishing touch , an antique embroidered shawl has been draped over a table to provide the perfect setting for a classic marble bust . |
| 11 | She grasped the light covering and was about to throw it off when she realised from the fabric 's texture that her own cotton skirt had been laid over her . |
| 12 | She felt as though a web had been thrown over her , the same web in which — ; however little he knew it — Edwin Frere was deeply entangled . |
| 13 | She was so startled that she just stood there like a dummy , and then , before she quite knew how it had happened , her wet sweater had been whipped over her head , a dry towel thrust into her hand and she was halfway into the hall . |
| 14 | The gate at the frontier had been pulled over the road and locked shut . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the basis of their commitment to an open and participatory democracy , Hartnett and Naish raise a number of major moral , social and educational issues arising from the drift to a more centralized system of control , in which managerial and bureaucratic priorities and solutions have been advanced over professional and community concerns . |
| 17 | The extent to which the Sussex population is involved in these movements is unknown , but at least some of our wintering birds move overland , and parties have been reported over Kingley Vale , Eartham , and West Chiltington recently , usually in spring . |
| 18 | The methods have been refined over the years , but not radically changed . |
| 19 | You will soon discover that a bewildering variety of history books have been written over several decades on the modern period alone . |
| 20 | The content and blend has been improved over recent years , but I do n't think that there has been a fundamental change . |
| 21 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 22 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 23 | The question has been raised over their qualifications and whether the Coastguard should have been informed of the expedition in advance , but it seems there was nothing exceptional in the fact that a school party was canoeing in the open sea . |
| 24 | ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 27 | The material of the bags had been destroyed in the fire and most of the burned contents of the hold had been dispersed over a wide area . |
| 28 | For nearly ten years a jungle war of incredible savagery had been fought over the same jungle tracks and expanses of savanna grassland where a decade later the Americans would lose to the Vietcong . |
| 29 | Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera . |
| 30 | However , is it not the case that , under the present Government , thousands of miles of hedgerows have been lost over the years ? |