Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] over the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 2 | His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity . |
| 3 | She came to a familiar boulder ; it had fallen where the river met the hollow that over the years had become the pond . |
| 4 | An unnamed minister ( probably the Lord President , Lord Salisbury ) , in the absence of control on coloured immigration , spoke of ‘ a real danger that over the years there would be a significant change in the racial character of the English people ’ . |
| 5 | Here Gehlen collected up the thousands of spools of microfilm that over the years he had painstakingly amassed as part of his record of Russian intelligence . |
| 6 | You have pay that over the season do n't you ? |
| 7 | I do n't think there was any doubt that over the year we were the best team in Scotland , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 9 | Players on tour are normally paired together as room-mates , a simple organisational expedient that over the years has created an explosive chemistry of scandal and misbehaviour . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that over the years America has been Israel 's guardian , both politically and militarily , and continues to give Israel $3 billion-worth of aid annually , that does not stop it from falling victim to Mossad 's activities . |