Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 2 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 3 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 4 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 5 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 6 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 7 | More repairs have been carried out over the years — the most recent and probably most rewarding is the cleaning , repointing and replacing of stonework — all done by one of the parishioners . |
| 8 | Mobilisations , deployments and manoeuvres have been carried out over the years to discourage resistance to Communist takeover ( Czechoslovakia 1948 ) , to block undesired contacts with West Berlin ( 19 separate occasions , including two seizures of West Berlin territory ) , to apply pressure in negotiations ( Norway and the Barents Sea ) , and to mask intentions in crisis ( Czechoslovakia 1968 and Poland 1981 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I think that is a just reward for the work which has been carried out over the two years following our restructure . |
| 11 | Maintenance and improvement works have been carried out over the past few months resulting in the first Sunday train leaving at 5pm . |
| 12 | Since the death of Tito in 1980 , and with the growing economic crisis , which is felt by Serbians to have particularly affected them ( although there is , in fact , little evidence that Serbia 's relative position has fallen in comparison with Yugoslavia as a whole ) , a growing number of Serb intellectuals have been looking back over the past and asking themselves whether Serbia was discriminated against under ‘ Titoist ’ rule . |
| 13 | In fact there was a , I think some of the recent erm concerns about schools have come from an image that 's been built up over a period of time that the schools spend very little time on the , on the three Rs for example . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | George Ortiz 's own collection of antiquities has been built up over the past forty-three years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Managing director said : ‘ The safety culture has been built up over the years and the team as a whole is to be praised for that . ’ |
| 19 | A great deal of expertise has been built up over the years in the shipment of petrochemical cargoes all over the world , often in custom-built vessels . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Strong and sometimes quite intense relationships with individuals are built up over a period of even a few weeks . |
| 22 | Clearly memories are not formed instantaneously , as if by throwing a switch , but are built up over a period of hours after the event to be memorized has occurred ; during this build-up the form in which any memory is stored changes . |
| 23 | They 're just doing us out of money that we 've been saving up over the years . |
| 24 | Or had it been shot down over the Channel ? |
| 25 | But long ago , in 1946 , the questing and the questioning had become almost unbearable , and I knew that to keep my sanity I must force myself to an arbitrary conclusion : I would believe the least terrible of terrible possibilities — that the plane had been shot down over the Channel by enemy action . |
| 26 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 27 | He said : My impression is that what has been going on over a period of years has come from , or been led by , a small mafia group of MI5 who have contacts outside in one or two sections of the press , and a few self-appointed private enterprise security agents . |
| 28 | There I mean there was nothing like the bombing that 's been going on , well , at least that 's what we 're told , the bombing that 's been going on over the last twenty four , forty eight hours of Baghdad for instance . |
| 29 | MORE than anything else , this week 's Labour Party conference should kill off a ritual that has been acted out over the years in a hundred radio and television studios . |
| 30 | The plaudits have been pouring in over the past weeks , as the following reports show . |