Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 31 | A report which goes before Middlesbrough councillors on Wednesday says : ‘ Concern has been expressed over the activities of some of those employed to control access to licensed premises . |
| 32 | In Scotland , concern has been expressed over the implications of studio closures and job losses , but it has met with soothing words from the BBC 's executives and from its political masters in government . |
| 33 | The stables have been converted into an information centre with displays of Border reiving history and battles in which the family has been involved over the centuries . |
| 34 | Half of India 's forest has been destroyed over the last 40 years , leaving only 10 per cent coverage . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Although warming has been detected over the last few decades , scientists claim that not enough is known about the natural temperature variations of the region to be able to come to any conclusions . |
| 38 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 39 | The lack of such participants has been aggravated over the years by high commission costs and clearing fees . |
| 40 | This concept has been refined over the years into ‘ How well do our Raphael holdings reflect his styles from the varying stages of his career ? ’ , leading in a recent , and extreme case , to the Italian government spending $1.5 million at Christie 's in 1991 on a St Catharine , a badly damaged sliver of a juvenile Raphael that had most of its surface paint washed away in the 1966 Florence flood . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Concern has been voiced over the plight of the Dipper , a bird which lives near upland rivers in the north and the west of the country . |
| 44 | Er Mr Chairman , ladies and gentlemen I 'd like to present the early result of an audit of of the prostate which has been performed over the northern region . |
| 45 | This skin condition , caused by a large ‘ pox ’ virus , has been thought over the years to be restricted to children living in crowded , closed communities and adults who attend Turkish baths or indulge in all-in wrestling . |
| 46 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 8 Perhaps this offers a useful framework to think about the work that has been produced over the last quarter of a century . |
| 49 | If a specific idea has been discussed over the phone confirm the details in writing . |
| 50 | If an outline idea has been discussed over the lunch table ring up to carry it further , and if you have floated an idea by post and have heard nothing phone up to see if it has fallen on stony ground . |
| 51 | The term ‘ partially sighted ’ has been used over the years to refer to pupils who have vision useful for all school tasks but require adaptations to teaching methods and materials in order to accomplish them . |
| 52 | Drainage geochemistry has been attempted over the Torridonian sandstone cover to locate possible leakage of metals from the underlying Lewisian . |
| 53 | the technology has been proved over the course of more than 100 years . |
| 54 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 55 | As the carriage is moved along the needle bed , the brush on the leading edge of the sinker plate will be pushing on the weaving yarn which has been laid over the needles to move it to the right position . |
| 56 | Built in the 15th Century , it has been modernised over the years , but maintains much of the original style . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | In addition , the SIB " high pressure " regime has been modified over the years . |