Example sentences of "have be [vb pp] over [art] long " in BNC.
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| 1 | Complex adaptations have developed because in certain circumstances the same selection pressure has been maintained over a long period of time . |
| 2 | All your behaviour , with the exception of those reflexes that were built into the system , has been acquired over a long period of ad hoc learning . |
| 3 | If it 's a professional job they will have been observed over a long period and their habits and financial status will be known . ’ |
| 4 | There are plenty of other collections with which to compare this one that do seem to have been written over a long period , and , indeed , the possible Eckard autograph F-Pn D 14218 ( see n.5 ) , with its much more disparate contents , its fragments , and its changes of hand toward the end , is such a source . |
| 5 | In early 1977 , for the first time in 30 years , campesinos in the central region of the country occupied land from which they had been evicted over a long period of time to make way for export crops . |
| 6 | Published by the Menil Foundation with Mercator Fonds and Thames & Hudson ( £45 ) , it is aimed at a wider readership , but it will be the essential essay for all students keen to learn how a great scholar 's opinions have been honed over the long years spent in the consideration of Magritte 's art . |