Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [adv] over [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When further broken down , the figures for public institutions are somewhat sobering , since educational libraries represent only 9% of publishers ' total sales , and public libraries a mere 5% — and these contributions as a percentage of the total have fallen steadily over the past five years , due to wide-ranging public spending cuts in this period . |
| 2 | Distinct approaches to data analysis in Britain and France have developed independently over the last 10 years . |
| 3 | And thousands have sped all over the world . |
| 4 | However trends in the activity rates of men and women have differed significantly over the last 15 years . |
| 5 | The clouds have dropped down over the mountain so that the evangelicals and charismatics on the first contour above the town have vanished into the mist . |
| 6 | I have looked carefully over a period of weeks at those applications , and have reached the view that they deserve to be granted . |
| 7 | Now speaking to you , as chairman of the G M B parliamentary group I can tell you that we have met twice over the last few weeks on this issue of modernization and we are agreed on the need to avoid a damaging public row from which everybody yes including the unions , will lose . |
| 8 | Few have done more over the years to encourage and inspire the growth and development of tennis by putting it on as professional footing as possible . |
| 9 | Fewer than 1 in 5 of the men in our sample has confined his sexual experience to a single partner , though two-thirds of them have done so over the last 12 months . |
| 10 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 11 | Then through the use of secondary picketing , frequently associated with intimidation and physical violence ( such as we have seen repeatedly over the past decade in connection with the miners ' strikes , the Shrewsbury incidents , Grunwick , the lorry drivers ' strike ) , unions become a threat to personal freedom . |
| 12 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 13 | So we realize we 're not gon na be here to change the habits that have built up over a lifetime . |
| 14 | The results confirm the so-called Standard Model , the theory which physicists have built up over the past 15 years to explain both the nature of matter and the forces which govern it . |
| 15 | Consequently , compromises have built up over the years . |
| 16 | Agencies like this find that some people want a complete change from previous work , others like to continue using the skills they have built up over the years . |
| 17 | It is a wonderful feeling to be able to experience the strength , suppleness and stamina that you have built up over the last three weeks . |
| 18 | According to Durex , whose condoms account for 80% of the British market , purchases made by women have risen steadily over the past 10 years . |
| 19 | This means that prices have risen considerably over the past few months — a very good reason for looking at alternatives to champagne . |
| 20 | Similarly , in the 1980 greater attention from both professionals in the field of child care and the media has increased our awareness of child sexual abuse , and the numbers of reported cases have grown considerably over the past decade . |
| 21 | Such courses which may relate to graphic design , fashion/textile design , interior design , and product design are usually of similar duration to those leading to CNAA degrees , that is three years full-time , and the numbers taking them have grown gradually over the years . |
| 22 | ‘ We have expanded rapidly over the past few years and have now outgrown our existing factory , ’ said David Gray , chairman and managing director of the Saltofix Group . |
| 23 | We have celebrated all over the world — in the Diaspora outside Palestine , and inside Palestine too , in the Yishuv itself . |
| 24 | The Sorrel Quartet , a young group of musicians who have played all over the world , were joined by violist Roger Bigley , a founder member of the Lindsay Quartet , to play two Mozart String Quintets , No 1 in B flat , K174 , and No 4 in G minor , K516 . |
| 25 | They have been caught in the crossfire of this particular Serbo-Croat war and have responded by fighting against the Serbs whose reservist soldiers in the Mostar barracks have behaved atrociously over the past six months . |
| 26 | Something they have proved consistently over the last ten years . |
| 27 | We have arrived exactly over the quarter-point from a position slightly south of our line 's origin ( i.e. , from the downwind leg at Gransden ) so must adjust our heading slightly for the next leg to the half-way mark . |
| 28 | It is correct that Britain has one of the lowest rates of corporate tax in the developed world , something from which our businesses , large and small , have benefited enormously over the years . |
| 29 | And er , as I say , observing this and watching Hector 's work and how things have gone on over the years , er as you know , there 's been a tremendous revival of interest in driving , so many people have er , restored carts or had new ones built and erm the young farriers who 've never had the experience with driving horses , they have run into problems with erm , keeping them going soundly and overcoming problems which crop up when horses are driven on the road a lot . |
| 30 | The unpredictability remains even when we have read to the end of the couplet. even when we have processed both lines of the couplet , our understanding will not be complete until we have gone back over the lines from the viewpoint of their relationship . |