Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few exceptions to this harsh rule have emerged over the years . |
| 2 | The fish on the bench have increased over the year and he asked everyone to bring out just one fish every meeting . |
| 3 | Social class inequalities of tenure have widened over the years if the comparison is made between the unskilled and the professional groups . |
| 4 | Many important changes in the structure of the economy have occurred over the last twenty years . |
| 5 | Strong science-based strategies for wildlife conservation have emerged over the last one hundred years . |
| 6 | Any nation has to learn democracy er , and it seems to me that all the people of the Soviet Union have shown over the last four or five years a lively interest in politics and considerable to participate in politics , er one of the problems is of course is that they 've been doing so , too much and in too disorganised a way , they 're going to have to get together . |
| 7 | The Minister of State turns away , but she and the Home Secretary have presided over the worst crime figures that the country has ever known . |
| 8 | Whilst some of the more conspicuous signs of domination have diminished over the years , a more indirect but equally pervasive web of relationships has grown up . |
| 9 | Motor traders said the slower annual decline in sales continued last month , though sales for the time of year have flattened over the past five months . |
| 10 | One of the one of the difficulties is that that that theatres up and down the country have faced over the last two years of the new target that were brought in with the eighty eight education act where schools were not allowed to make a charge it could only be a voluntary contribution now the council of Great Britain have looked at this it 's a problem cos of this decimated schools audiences . |
| 11 | However , differences between the sexes in economic activity have diminished over the years . |
| 12 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 13 | In previous chapters we have seen how our views of the nature of time have changed over the years . |
| 14 | We have no choice ; when my father died in nineteen seventy-nine I had to come to an arrangement with the Capital Taxes Office , that , er for not paying the full value of the er death duties on the value of the contents of the house , I had to open it to the public , quite frankly , if then and even more now , if I had to pay the full amount , I 'd have had to sell everything which my family have collected over the last seven hundred years . |