Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] over [art] past " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 2 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 3 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 6 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 7 | ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability . |
| 8 | In the first place it must be asked why , if this growing equality between spouses has been achieved over the past hundred or so years , has the militant feminist movement grown throughout the world during the 1960s and 1970s ? |
| 9 | This Government are committed to an effective policy of regional development , and I remind the hon. Member for Gateshead , East that much has been achieved over the past 10 years . |
| 10 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 11 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This results in the Collectair library gaining valuable notes , all of which is carefully filed away for use as and when the archive that has been created over the past few years becomes available to students of aviation history . |
| 14 | The crisis has been created over the past 10 years , and this is the second recession in which the building industry has been hit hard . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | But though an enormous amount of material about such families has been accumulated over the past century , neither the social anthropologists nor the compilers of genealogical handbooks ( an aristocratic occupation ) have taken sufficient interest in them to make it easy to generalise with any confidence about such family groups . |
| 17 | Information on the effects of social work is frequently not systematically collected ; where a programme of research studies has been conducted over the past decade , it has often proved difficult to develop a co-ordinated body of knowledge which can be applied to future work . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 20 | The problem has been augmented over the past two years by the US recession , which brought about more company failures , and the savings and loan debacle . |
| 21 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 22 | It is particularly keen to help the manufacturing sector , which has been decimated over the past 12 years . |
| 23 | On the contrary , what is happening , and has been happening over the past ten years or so , raises very serious questions indeed . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Statistics on school rugby accidents only have only started being collected over the past five years . |
| 26 | Absolutely — and it is the Secretary of State 's Department that is guilty of taking benefits away from millions of people who would have benefited if the Labour Government 's policies had been maintained over the past 12 years by this tawdry , rotten Tory Government . |
| 27 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 28 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 29 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 30 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |