Example sentences of "be [vb pp] 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 A detailed helicopter EM survey has been flown over extensive areas of the Middle Dalradian ( MEG 253 ) .
3 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 .
4 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 ’ .
5 male economic activities and the products of male labour are prized over female economic activities and the products of female labour .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week .
10 THREE British Telecom engineers have been sacked over an alleged 0898 cash-quiz fiddle .
11 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 .
12 Her body was bruised , from the beatings she had received , and a balaclava had been placed over her head .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall .
20 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 .
21 One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas .
22 These had been developed over a one year period and had been fully piloted .
23 In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years .
24 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 .
25 To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states .
26 Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data .
27 It may be related to the size , complexity and nature of the company 's operation and therefore to the organisational structure which has been developed over many years .
28 Alternative approaches to leadership theory have been developed over tie years , and some of these will be described under the headings of :
29 While case management has empirical referents which have been developed over many years ( largely in the USA ) care management has , until recently , had none .
30 The Lothian proposals for assessing needs have been developed over the past year by the Lothian Assessment and Care Management Steering Group — an interagency group chaired by Lothian Social Work with representatives from Lothian Health Board ( medicine , nursing and planning ) , General Practitioners , District Council housing departments , housing associations , voluntary and private sector organisations and users ' and carers ' groups .
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