Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [vb pp] over the " 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 | Although traditional shopfronts add charm and individuality to high streets , unprecedented damage has been done over the last century . |
| 3 | Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris . |
| 4 | ‘ Ah well , the Pete Blake play has been perfected over the years . |
| 5 | The change in the orbit of the earth is too slow to be observed , but this same effect has been observed over the past few years occurring in the system called PSR 1913+16 ( PSR stands for " pulsar , " a special type of neutron star that emits regular pulses of radio waves ) . |
| 6 | The gate at the frontier had been pulled over the road and locked shut . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 9 | ‘ The separation has been achieved over the past year , but any contracting out of the providing side will be done slowly to retain stability . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 12 | For nearly ten years a jungle war of incredible savagery had been fought over the same jungle tracks and expanses of savanna grassland where a decade later the Americans would lose to the Vietcong . |
| 13 | Areas of bright stucco work have been found over the first layer of tempera . |
| 14 | A report to Thursday 's recreation committee says art works in the Myles Meehan Gallery have been damaged over the past months to the tune of over £3,500 . |
| 15 | The team has been restructured over the past few months . |
| 16 | Half of India 's forest has been destroyed over the last 40 years , leaving only 10 per cent coverage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Opinion had been divided over the question of whether the injuries had caused Mary Flint 's death . |
| 19 | Poor Father O'Hara had contracted cholera and died shortly after the withdrawal to the banqueting hall ; when his body had been heaved over the ramparts for the jackals and pariah dogs ( the only way that remained for disposing of the dead ) , a number of heavy metal beads , crosses , Saints and Virgins had been discovered in his effects . |
| 20 | Pain is difficult to define and measure and the thresholds of pain tolerance have been lowered over the years . |
| 21 | Reportedly many of the APIs Apple embedded in ROM have been lost over the years and are undocumented . |
| 22 | This robustness has been proved over the past few years even through the economic downturns of the early 1980s . |
| 23 | Stanley is obviously worried that his wife has been cheated over the sale of Belle Reve . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mark 's name had been called over the loudspeaker system . |
| 26 | Letters of Credit have been adapted over the years to recognise new modes of transport and the changing requirements of importers and exporters . |
| 27 | Letters of Credit have been adapted over the years to recognise new modes of transport and the changing requirements of importers and exporters . |
| 28 | The unpainted doors were padlocked and above them he could vaguely make out the name Strauss , the paintwork having been abraded over the years by the weather . |
| 29 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 30 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |