Example sentences of "have [vb pp] over [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To ask the Secretary of State for Social Security what recent representations he has received over the level of the retirement pension . |
| 2 | Priddle and Heywood ( 1980 ) regard antarctic lakes as forming an evolutionary series which has developed over the period of about 20 000 years since the ice-sheet was maximal ; this is in any case a convenient way of describing them . |
| 3 | A further possibility is that either the prestige or the style of the journals has altered over the study period , thus encouraging submission ( or acceptance ) of larger studies . |
| 4 | It has been greatly influenced by the tangled confusion into which the Anglican Communion has stumbled over the ordination of women . |
| 5 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 6 | COSE has given over the organisation and running of the COSE Developers Conference , supposed to be in October , to Uniforum , leaving it to decide when and where to have it . |
| 7 | He has given over the training to Druim and Unish . |
| 8 | Its share of total industrial activity has varied over the period but the figures for the late 1960s are representative . |
| 9 | It indicates the change that has come over the world . |
| 10 | It is early morning and dawn has crept over the land with the suddenness characteristic of summer . |
| 11 | It is five o'clock in the morning , but already the sun has crept over the horizon and the temperature is rising . |
| 12 | The paralysis that has crept over the planet . |
| 13 | A COMMITTEE chairwoman has quit over a row about postal votes at a Darlington community centre . |
| 14 | Opening a debate on the Common Agricultural Policy he said : ‘ The uncertainty which has hung over the farming industry has been lessened by the … |
| 15 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 16 | Much of the controversy which has raged over the issue of AID ( Artificial Insemination by Donor ) revolves around this issue . |
| 17 | A tremendous fuss has exploded over a plan to open most of its 260,000 hectares ( 642,500 acres ) to logging . |
| 18 | Albie has become a celebrity in Speke , and now he has got over the shock I think he is actually enjoying the limelight . |
| 19 | ( Columbia Tristar , 15 , rental only ) Stanley & Iris Once one has got over the novelty of seeing Jane Fonda and Robert de Niro don blue collars to play working-class lost souls , Martin Ritt 's adaptation of the novel Union Street ( set on Teeside ) is fairly absorbing . |
| 20 | This study examines specific resources — various types of labour , capital and materials — used by the hospital sector to quantify the degree of substitution that has occurred over the period 1951 to 1981 . |
| 21 | Answer guide : To provide a guide to the way in which a business has performed over a period of time . |
| 22 | He is a master at keeping a rhythm throughout , picking up speed as soon as he has landed over a fence , and taking the most economical route . |
| 23 | One tree has been uprooted and has toppled over the Water of Leith . |
| 24 | We must all despair that once again the bullet has triumphed over the brain . |
| 25 | He has presided over a degree of prosperity unknown under his predecessor , Sukarno . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State has presided over the loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in recent years . |
| 27 | As Dunleavy and Rhodes ( 1987 , p. 23 ) argue , the government ‘ has presided over the proliferation of single-function quasi-government agencies ’ . |
| 28 | The Fiesta has driven over the comic 's left foot and sent Mel sprawling . |
| 29 | In this extract , Charlie has tripped over the dog Floss in the dark , and to his astonishment someone speaks to him : |
| 30 | Of the programme 's two main objectives , the Institution believes awareness has increased over the year , but the lack of action taken has , in some ways , been disappointment . |