Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] over [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The potential of hoard studies has been realised only over the last century . |
| 2 | Since their receptive fields are scattered all over the visual field the rabbit 's brain is kept well-informed about movements all around it . |
| 3 | Bankings which have been torn apart over the last two centuries and then rebuilt and rebuilt again may have to be moved back to take the sting out of the pile-driving force of the river in spate . |
| 4 | ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure . |
| 5 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 6 | At the beginning of the month it was announced that of 1,760 extremist attacks in the period from the beginning of January to Nov. 8 , 1992 , 1,000 had been carried out over the previous two months . |
| 7 | Castle continues to value video copyrights on a historical cost basis because its catalogue has only been built up over the last two or three years and there is less earnings experience on which to base a valuation . |
| 8 | The small but very fine collection of Old Master paintings , drawings and works of art had been built up over the last decade on the encouragement and advice of Metropolitan Museum curators . |
| 9 | Whatever happened , the Virgin Group was secure , but the airline , 500 jobs , everything that had been built up over the last eighteen months , was suddenly in jeopardy through no fault of anyone at Virgin . |
| 10 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 11 | Interestingly , the two semicircular towers had been built out over the filled ditch of the earlier rampart , as had the semioctagonal external tower at the north-west corner . |
| 12 | This point has now been made frequently over the past few years , as for instance in this passage from the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) : |
| 13 | To anyone raising the argument that perpetual servitude is as painful as death and therefore equally cruel , I will reply that , adding up all the moments of unhappiness of servitude , it may well be even more cruel ; but these are drawn out over an entire lifetime , while the pain of death exerts its whole force in a moment . |
| 14 | The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 . |
| 15 | This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements . |
| 16 | They linked this with a national rent rebate scheme , rationalizing the variety of local schemes that had been set up over the previous decade , to offset the costs to the poorer tenants . |
| 17 | The path here can be very wet , but planks have been laid down over the worst parts . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Thanks in large part to electronic paging this has been reduced significantly over the past 10 years . |
| 20 | A BS spokesman said he could see no possible solution to the problem at this stage but the issue would be examined closely over the next six months . |
| 21 | For maximum usefulness , these measurements must be carried out over a wide range of temperature . |
| 22 | Other advantages proposed for speech are that the hands are free to perform other tasks and that communication may be carried out over a standard telephone line without the requirement for additional hardware . |
| 23 | Assessment of progress will be carried out over the two year period and will be based on the completion of design notebooks , workbooks , pattern drafts , knitted samples and garments and finally a written examination . |
| 24 | A Declaratory Order covering 270 acres was proposed with a view to designating extensively war-damaged land , subject to compulsory purchase ; this was required for essential improvements to be carried out over the next 15 years . |
| 25 | Follow-up visits will be carried out over the next three weeks , to obtain additional information on equipment , software , and your immediate working environment . |
| 26 | The tests are due to be carried out over the next fortnight but parents will face a six-week wait for the results . |
| 27 | In large-scale national surveys , as carried out regularly by market research firms and government agencies , interviews may be carried out over the whole country and the people who have the task of making the analysis of several hundred or thousand schedules can not possibly be for ever phoning through to the interviewers to ask what some cryptic little scribble opposite question number 15 is supposed to mean . |
| 28 | Therefore , under SSAP 24 the shortfall of £30m would be written off over the average remaining service life of the employees in the scheme . |
| 29 | That sort of partnership can not be built up over a few years , it has to be through a long term commitment by both parties . ’ |
| 30 | Drainage : what needs to be done before a good soil structure can be built up over the whole farm ? |