Example sentences of "it have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she may even know the number of consultants within a particular firm , how it has been performing , what are its key issues , how it has grown over the past year and generally what it is doing and how successfully . |
| 2 | How does this particular religious tradition shape up at the end of the twentieth century , particularly in the context of those challenges that it has faced over the last hundred and fifty years from movements in secular thought like Darwinism , Marxism and Positivism ? |
| 3 | Much of Rhône-Poulenc 's effort in 199 was focused on integrated the large number of acquisitions it has made over the past five years . |
| 4 | I very much hope that the hospital to which the hon. Gentleman referred will be able to consolidate further the remarkable progress that it has made over the past couple of years — a 56 per cent . |
| 5 | In spite of the many things it has achieved over the last hundred years — and we have all been shaped by that — it has got itself boxed in by one issue . |
| 6 | The aid programme , as it has developed over the last thirty years , has failed in terms of its original objective , i.e. the promotion of a pattern of economic growth in which the injection of external finance on soft terms was no longer necessary . |
| 7 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 8 | It has progressed over the years to international status attracting many of the top riders from around the world . |
| 9 | Mr Pizzi , according to a spokesman for the Biennale , wanted to give the show back all the prestige and originality it has lost over the years . |
| 10 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | The next issue of Action will carry more information on the closure of IMP and the growth of the media programmes it has launched over the past 15 years . |
| 12 | The government has bombarded savers with opportunities to buy shares — generally on the cheap — in recognisable and profitable enterprises , it has tempted them with a succession of tax breaks designed to promote share ownership , and it has presided over the most sustained equity bull market of modern times . |
| 13 | Western philosophy has a long tradition so it is not surprising that it has changed over the centuries both in content and in method . |
| 14 | I spent much of my childhood in the New Forest and have watched with sadness as it has deteriorated over the decades . |
| 15 | ‘ Tests showed that she had this condition , and it has deteriorated over the years . |
| 16 | While the system of ‘ payment by results ’ was formally abolished in 1895 it has continued over the years to represent an enormous affront to the professional consciousness of teachers and a threat to the creation of an effective educational service . |
| 17 | I hope that it will reach a satisfactory conclusion and remove the substantial problem that it has laid over the lives of so many former customers of that bank . |
| 18 | that it has reduced over the last year at Thornhill and I do know that we have agreed in our budget for this coming year to put in closed circuit television at all four Park and Ride car parks , which presumably will reduce it at the others as well . |
| 19 | Turning to the specific task on hand , he commended the gas turbine division as a whole for the great strides it had made over the last few years and stressed the important role that LTS had played in the division 's growth . |
| 20 | He urged the world to " address the question of Palestine by the same criteria that it had applied over the question of Kuwait " . |
| 21 | From the middle of the nineteenth century , the town had spread east towards the railway and , after the war , crossed over it ; now it had flooded over the land between the railway and the new by-pass . |
| 22 | But although we found little , report had magnified our findings in no ordinary degree and we afterwards learnt that it had gone over the country around that we had dug up a great treasure of gold . |
| 23 | I know cos we were breaking bits off it cos it had gone over the edge . |
| 24 | Boast he occasionally might , but that was part of his childlike pride in the continued expansion of his wholesale fancy goods business ; from a weekly round of nearby villages it had grown over the years into a limited-liability company with an extensive warehouse and a solid share of the city 's and province 's retail market . |
| 25 | And then — and the memory was fleeting , but it had grown over the years — then she had reached to the boy … |
| 26 | One hour and twenty minutes and it had slipped over the curvature of the earth , or so it seemed . |
| 27 | It had spread over the jungle and then had devoured the marshland . |
| 28 | The funeral service and groupings within it had changed over the last five years . |
| 29 | These more loyal long service employees had an intuitive feeling that the division would ultimately go out of business in the UK if it continued to operate in the way it had behaved over the previous ten years . |
| 30 | By the middle decades of the century the " old diplomacy " as it had evolved over the last three hundred years , with its easy-going and cosmopolitan atmosphere , its often short hours of work , its extensive use of unpaid or inadequately paid diplomats , its almost complete immunity from effective public scrutiny , was under increasing pressure . |