Example sentences of "over the [noun pl] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The legal dispute over the relics has been between Mr John Claridge , who excavated them in 1931 , and his niece , Mrs Georgina Smith , the daughter of his brother , Geoffrey , who died in 1986 . |
| 2 | RELATIVES of three IRA terrorists shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar will learn tonight whether a campaign to put the Government in the dock over the killings has been successful . |
| 3 | He was acquitted , but not before the dockers and other waterfront workers had entered the dispute in support of the seamen and victory over the employers had been won . |
| 4 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 5 | His teaching , or the teaching that over the centuries has been ascribed to him , brought into being the highly influential religion of Christianity . |
| 6 | The writer enters the negative force-field and her steps are often tentative and painful ; her conclusions often oblique or noncommittal However , having traversed a terrain full of snares , in the final story , Northern Chess the female hero emerges triumphant from the ashes of her sisters , who over the centuries have been burnt at the stake for their dangerous powers . |
| 7 | Unknown to him , his wife is a gambler , who over the years has been secretly gambling away his money and assets . |
| 8 | The only visible damage over the years has been to its statuary . |
| 9 | The general trend over the years has been for LDC governments and state enterprises to rely increasingly on international banks rather than official transfers , i.e. foreign aid , to meet their foreign currency financial needs . |
| 10 | MUCH of the most thought provoking cricket writing over the years has been produced by authors whose major interests lie outside cricket . |
| 11 | The climbing world 's response over the years has been ambivalent . |
| 12 | The way in which the argument has been couched in Goody 's work over the years has been to construct an apparatus of grand distinctions on which discussion of literacy could be based . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , governments have come to accept the extravagant version as a taboo , and , like many such myths , its influence over the years has been in inverse proportion to its constitutional validity . |
| 14 | For , as we shall see , one of the most obvious effects of the myth of judicial independence on sentencing practice over the years has been the extent to which sentencers have been left to police themselves according to their own rules arid principles . |
| 15 | A growing feature of the employment contract over the years has been the provision of occupational pension schemes for retirement and sickness . |
| 16 | The list of foreign players attracted to Whaddon over the years has been endless . |
| 17 | On the day I travelled down with Stan Piecha , who over the years has been the most consistent angler in the competition . |
| 18 | Over the years has been responsible for improving the mill control systems throughout the country ; updating the simple push buttons on the walls to the present day fully computerised systems . |
| 19 | ONE OF the beauties of doing the football pools over the years has been their simplicity , writes Mike Aitken . |
| 20 | Most of the people who have been close to me over the years have been paid to be . |
| 21 | What over the years have been the main disadvantages for textile manufacturers ? |
| 22 | WORK has started to demolish the flats in Weycombe Road , Haslemere , which over the years have been named the Barracks because of their appearance . |
| 23 | Let me say straight away that I am far from being a male chauvinist ( many of my girlfriends over the years have been females ) , indeed the very first person to introduce me to canoeing was Marianne Tucker who subsequently represented England in the 1960 Olympics . |
| 24 | Does that not show that the Government 's policies over the years have been courageous ? |
| 25 | Young graduates over the years have been sent far and wide in search of that elusive first job . |
| 26 | In a number of instances , the Crown 's formal legal title over the dominions has been terminated . |
| 27 | Their influence over the masses had been tenuous even at the height of their prestige in 1905 . |