Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London the Shahs ambassador , Parviz Radji , who had been inter alia , the lover of Princes Ashraf , has been agonizing daily over the turn that is country had taken , the corruption of the court of which he was apart , and the inglorious way in which it has now all collapsed . |
| 2 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 3 | It has been tailored for its purpose and has been tested extensively over the past 12 years . |
| 4 | I 'm not suggesting the U.K. has been doing marvellously over the past 40 years ( compared to many other nations it has n't ) but compared to the U.S. it 's done very well indeed . |
| 5 | Product differentiation and improvement has been occurring steadily over the years and now includes metal and wooden window frames , doors , storage tanks , household furniture , beds , as well as a much improved range of braziers , and tin trunks . |
| 6 | Hence the keen interest in this result and the fierceness of the battle which has been fought here over the last few weeks . |
| 7 | His work has been sold all over the world and he recently held a successful one-man exhibition in Paris . |
| 8 | The method has been imitated all over the world , in places as diverse as New Zealand , Italy , Russia , England , California , Australia , Spain and India , and that list is by no means complete . |
| 9 | Thanks in large part to electronic paging this has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years . |
| 10 | ‘ But what has been happening in Darlington has been happening all over the country , this has been a national problem . ’ |
| 11 | The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world . |
| 12 | If it had been windy our votes would have been blown all over the forest . ’ |
| 13 | Aircraft do appear however in the chapter on Calshot where good coverage of the various types to have been based there over the years is included . |
| 14 | Levels of nitrates in tap water had been rising slowly over the past decade , most of it leaching into groundwater from farmers fields , where it 's used as a fertilizer . |
| 15 | It contained various bits of junk that had been stored there over the years , but nothing was even remotely useful in the present crisis . |
| 16 | It took him nearly an hour to assemble the rest of the stick who had been dragged all over the desert by their parachutes . |
| 17 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 18 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 19 | Louise had hardly been out of his thoughts for a moment during the past six weeks while the relieving force , under the command of General Sinclair , had been advancing circumspectly over the plains . |
| 20 | She noted , she said with a pained expression , that output from the UK Vehicle Division of United Motors had been falling steadily over the previous ten years . |
| 21 | Thus there was a confusing number of elements on earth , above it and below it which contributed to the afterlife , representing ideas which had been brought together over a long period of time . |
| 22 | My one pound , seventeen shillings had been put together over a number of years by saving money given me on my birthdays by relatives . |
| 23 | We 've been ploughing all over the grass ! |
| 24 | in the heavens and let us make a celebrated name for ourselves for fear we may be scattered all over the earth , well that was God 's command was n't it there they said be scattered all over the earth |
| 25 | Both the assets and the liabilities of the personal sector have been rising rapidly over the past ten years . |
| 26 | Seven XJ220 prototypes have been tested all over the world . |
| 27 | Bottle bins and cages for newspapers and cardboard have been positioned all over the centre and the scheme will be inaugurated at 2pm on June 17 . |
| 28 | It reveals all that has been said in the many policy launches and the speeches that have been made all over the country . |
| 29 | His drawings and paintings have been exhibited all over the world . |
| 30 | The Museum , although having a modern exterior , was originally built around a Moorish bath-house Commemorative plaques of the Rock 's historical past have been posted all over the streets and buildings . |