Example sentences of "[been] [adj] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Injury statistics and trends show that after substantial reductions in recent decades , employees fatalities appear to be levelling off at about 1.6 per 100 000 employees and that the reported major injury rate for employees has been stable over the last three years . |
| 2 | The range of this regular pulsation is only 0–02 per cent of the Sun 's radius , but it has been stable over the full 250-year span covered by the various sets of observations . |
| 3 | Pijnenborg et al point out that ‘ many doctors ’ participate in and accept the practice and they claim that the practice has been stable over the years and assume that it may be less in future . |
| 4 | The whole establishment had , in fact , been upset over her disappearance . |
| 5 | Venables and the Spurs board have been upset over a series of allegations Scholar has made in his book ‘ Behind Closed Doors ’ , which is published today . |
| 6 | Among those to whom I sent a copy of the book on publication was Quintin Hailsham , then Lord Chancellor , with whom , despite our differences of opinion on many matters , I had been friendly over the years . |
| 7 | In fact the screening rate of women in the excluded group has been low over the last 20 years — some 50–80 per cent of older women have never had a smear . |
| 8 | Although the details of Clinton 's draft record were tortuously complex and , by common consent , of limited relevance to the presidential campaign , Republicans made some effective political capital from the repeated suggestion that he had been evasive over admitting the truth of the matter . |
| 9 | When you think about it , yeah he was So what 's been wrong over the weekend then you had a cold or ? |
| 10 | The Government 's commitment to the coal industry has been clear over the past 10 years or more ; they have also shown their commitment to a successful future for the industry . |
| 11 | Although it seems highly probable that sea level changes have been similar over very large areas of the earth 's surface , the possibility of local terraces of different dates due to other causes can not be excluded . |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher has been alarmed over reports from Washington that President Bush is already contemplating follow-on talks from the present East-West negotiations on conventional forces . |
| 13 | whether your job performance and attitude have been satisfactory over the years ; |
| 14 | That he had been well over the limit , both speed and booze limits , following a blazing row with her mother , she had kept to herself . |
| 15 | I 've never been well over the weekend that 's why we got up so late . |
| 16 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 17 | No response has been forthcoming over the N.A.F.D. comments relating to the Intra Community Transfer of Human Remains . |
| 18 | Even in France , which had been permissive over books and plays , films were treated surprisingly strictly . |
| 19 | The USA had been concerned over Israeli arms dealing with South Africa , China and a number of Latin American countries . |
| 20 | The growth of er , Information Technology in mounting information is required at member level and chief officer level has indeed been enormous over these years , and does not necessarily reflect in reductions elsewhere . |
| 21 | Both the scale and rate of change affecting the operation of the company have been dramatic over the last nine months . |
| 22 | Yet such sociological explanations for men 's reticence at reporting abnormal symptoms only serves to underline the absence of a national prostate screening campaign , particularly so since a simple blood test has been available over the last four years which can detect the likely presence of prostate cancer . |
| 23 | If we now look at the different animals and crops that have been available over several thousand years , we will begin to see how basic systems of land exploitation worked in the landscape . |
| 24 | Only that morning the party had been excited over Mr Major 's rediscovered soapbox . |
| 25 | Tony has been unwell over the weekend . |
| 26 | This sentence , by the Brazilian film-maker Glauber Rocha , written at the turn of the 1970s , clearly identifies a form of expression with a mass of oppressed people whose experience has been continuous over at least four centuries . |
| 27 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 28 | The second attraction is that the Town and Country Planning Association is a fascinating case study of a pressure group that has been active over a long period . |
| 29 | Well , not really but they have been disillusioned over the years they 've promised so much and then they 've never seemed seemed to get anywhere but I think , I honestly think they would , people would get behind them , if they could see they were going somewhere I mean like this season they seem to have fallen away yet again . |
| 30 | But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today . |