Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 3 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 4 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 5 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 6 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 7 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 8 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 9 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 10 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 11 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 12 | The constitution of the Federation , which has been formulated over the past two years , was agreed with twelve countries accepted into membership . |
| 13 | Around Somerton in Somerset , for example , Roger Leech suggests that all the settlements that existed in late Roman times have been located over the last several centuries , and so the pattern we see is probably a true reflection of the state of affairs in the Roman era , showing farmsteads and hamlets 1–2 kilometres ( ½-1 mile ) apart , scattered evenly across the landscape . |
| 14 | About 30 horses have been attacked over the last 18 months in Hampshire and surrounding counties . |
| 15 | been attacked over the last few months of not wasting time on the hunt I spend an awful lot of time relieving heavy goods traffic in my area , concerned totally about the environment , about mineral extraction quarries , mining , open cast , things of that calibre . |
| 16 | The hotel , which will have full conference , banqueting and leisure facilities — including an outdoor swimming pool — is the first Novotel venture in Ireland , but others are expected over the next few years . |
| 17 | The report claims three hundred and sixty five cases of AIDS have been reported over the past three months ; it 's the highest quarterly rate yet . |
| 18 | All the hospitals in Southampton have been rebuilt over the past few years . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 21 | It was suggested that too much VAT had been claimed over the previous two years . |
| 22 | And , I mean , reluctantly we have to accept that this is not an ideal world , but I mean , just now , we were actually looking at the number of food hygiene inspections that have been done over the last few months , which have increased enormously , it just means , I mean it emphasises the fact that food has changed , food , and the number of places that are actually serving food now I mean , the corner shop does sandwiches . |
| 23 | Trounson says that 13 frozen embryos have been transferred over the past two years , but until this week none has been successful . |
| 24 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 25 | There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation . |
| 26 | Next up the quality ladder is desktop publishing of which much has been written over the past two years . |
| 27 | Over 100 different tests are applied over the whole raw material range . |
| 28 | Now operated within Effect Products , this business is still considerable , with new opportunities arising in markets in the developing world , but the product range for sales in Western Europe has been broadened over the past 10 years or so with the development of more specialized products for use , for example , in carbonless copying paper . |
| 29 | This month 's Top Ten features the best utilities we 're reviewed over the past 18 months . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , but how many of these wonderfully high-paid jobs have you been offered over the past eighteen months ? ’ |