Example sentences of "[been] [verb] over [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inter-Service friction has been eased over the years by successive steps taken to concentrate greater power in the hands of the Central staffs as more tri-Service experienced officers have become available ; and to bring the Services closer together at every level of command , and in training and operations . |
| 2 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 3 | A preheated cupping glass would then have been placed over the wound and the cooling action of the air inside would have produced a vacuum capable of sucking the blood out . |
| 4 | Pocklington 's population rose from 1,502 in 1801 to 2,546 in 1851 but two excellent plans of the town , drawn up by William Watson in 1844 and 1855 , show how little the medieval lay-out had been altered over the years other than by encroachments onto the market place . |
| 5 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 6 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 7 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |
| 8 | Sir , — I have been puzzling over the purpose of P. Cowan 's ‘ Democracy ’ letter . |
| 9 | Doctors have been puzzling over the cause of acne for many years and trying to find a cure . |
| 10 | The nonconformist movement built their first chapel in 1821 , with four having been erected over the years for the Primitive , Congregational , Baptist and Methodist movements , only the latter still regularly meeting . |
| 11 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
| 12 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 13 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 14 | It should have been completed over the weekend . |
| 15 | Accordingly , a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years , as shown in Table 5.1 . |
| 16 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 17 | In addition , the SIB " high pressure " regime has been modified over the years . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , Boyo , it 's either this or that , ’ said Taff , pointing to the alternative — a large piece of meat that had been roasted over a fire and looked most unappetising . |
| 19 | According to colleagues , whose judgment of distance had been honed over a day spent working on yardage charts , the sliver of wood was four centimetres long . |
| 20 | His superb physical shape has been honed over the years by a practical approach to food and exercise . |
| 21 | He has one of them , the remaining four having been scattered over the planet for security . |
| 22 | That respect has been earned over the space of a 39- year career with the firm which has seen Grants take its Glenfiddich brand and turn it from a regional tipple in the north-east of Scotland into Britain 's and the world 's leading single malt . |
| 23 | About nine that morning a German pathfinder had been reported over the Firth of Forth . |
| 24 | In total the bungalow 's size has probably been quadrupled over the years with various extensions added when needed . |
| 25 | The National Trust is responsible for the care and upkeep and the old wooden gutters have been repaired over the years . |
| 26 | Certain of the services implicit in a wholesaler function , and for which publishers have agreed to pay higher rate of discounts , have been eroded over the years , and we wish to see them reinstated . |
| 27 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 28 | He hat eventually decided to ask Security 's registry and its computers for a trace muddling the trail by getting a colleague to send the request for him and burying it in a list of acronyms as if they had been collected over a period of time . |
| 29 | Thousands of pounds have been collected over a number of years , resulting in items of new equipment that have each been featured in previous issues of Glenpatrick News . |
| 30 | This amount had been collected over the winter , with the proceeds of a weekly raffle also being added to the bottle . |