Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun sg] [noun pl] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | These and other findings — reported at a meeting of the American Society of Testing and Materials — contradict extensive evidence of damage to the local environment presented by government researchers over the last four years . |
| 2 | It is based on ‘ commonly accepted general principles of good journalistic practice ’ built by council adjudications over many years . |
| 3 | Includes many listings of comparative aircraft , fighter pilot films , fighter aces , and fighter terms , the latter describing some of the slang used by fighter pilots over the years . |
| 4 | " Keeper of the Keys " is one of many games which have been used by drama teachers over the years . |
| 5 | It is reached by stepping stones over the lawn and a small bridge crossing the bog garden and two linking fish pools . |
| 6 | I am unconvinced that these provisions , taken singly or cumulatively , show that there is a legislative intention to confine the status of an administrative receiver to a receiver appointed by debenture holders over property of a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
| 7 | Basically , I come to praise the positive steps taken by Health Ministers over the past five years , although in a minor way I will ask for reconsideration of a wrong done to a medical practice in my constituency . |
| 8 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 9 | The 1986 data destroyed the myth that the foreign kill rate was comparable to the US rate , and confirmed that the widely accepted official figure of 6 million dolphins killed by purse seiners over the past 30 years was a gross underestimate . |
| 10 | To achieve this , and also to attract the interest of would-be exponents of the approach who have not had the opportunity to undergo an extensive systems education , it has been necessary at times to over-simplify the explanations of concepts and applications , and condense them from those developed by system researchers over many decades . |