Example sentences of "be [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | They are stepping over the invisible , moralistic Maginot Line of the old culture of opposition . |
| 3 | A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) . |
| 4 | The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin . |
| 5 | Both the assertion of central authority and the fragmentation of local social structures and economics are integral to the overall desire to use power to restructure social arrangements in such a way that certain interests are favoured over others , to reward supporters , and to maintain these arrangements by using social institutions to entrench an alternative set of ideas , those of the ‘ enterprise culture ’ . |
| 6 | male economic activities and the products of male labour are prized over female economic activities and the products of female labour . |
| 7 | As noted earlier , the findings reported here flow from an international comparative research programme that has been sustained over a seven-year period , beginning in 1983 . |
| 8 | French sovereignty , it was suggested , had been recognized over Indo-China ; but the paper maintained that this did not imply any commitment on the part of the US to assist France to exert its authority over the Indo-Chinese people . |
| 9 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 10 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 11 | It is often argued that survey data give a very limited analysis of managerial policies which are developed over a period to deal with specific problems and this study should help to test such methodological criticisms . |
| 12 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 13 | THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle . |
| 14 | A white cloth had been placed over her unpillowed head hiding her injuries , but the room was filled with an overpowering stench like smouldering wool . |
| 15 | Her body was bruised , from the beatings she had received , and a balaclava had been placed over her head . |
| 16 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 17 | Police , firemen and council workers had worked through the night to restore the scene of the atrocity , and fresh paving stones had already been placed over the gaping holes left by the blasts . |
| 18 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 19 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ As soon as I can spare you , you are to go over there and make the place habitable . |
| 22 | Gava had been criticized over his failure to deal with organized crime and had been accused by the Communist Party ( PCI ) of links with the Camorra , the Neapolitan branch of the Mafia . |
| 23 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 24 | It had been welded over the preceding decades by the authoritarianism of manager Bill Struth , staunch Presbyterian traditions , the famous ‘ iron curtain ’ defence and tough captains like Big George Young . |
| 25 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 26 | These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted . |
| 27 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 28 | These major companies are very stable , with an organisational structure which has been developed over many years and , like the Japanese Zaibatsu , they have a large-core business which is able to withstand changes in the market place . |
| 29 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 30 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |