Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over the " 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 | The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin . |
| 3 | Mr Clinton may be staking the future of his presidency on his plan , details of which have been leaked over the past week . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Police , firemen and council workers had worked through the night to restore the scene of the atrocity , and fresh paving stones had already been placed over the gaping holes left by the blasts . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | By contrast , I make it clear that Labour believes it is right and just and should be the first priority for pensioners to get an increase of £5 a week for a single pensioner and £8 a week for a married couple , given the mean and miserable way in which they have been treated over the past decade . |
| 8 | The way the work-force has been treated over the last few years , the uncertainty that 's been created and the lack of consultation , the impact on their lives of such a closure on people who have been expecting to be there until they retire — their jobs may well go , and the impact on that , both for their own lives as well as their families . |
| 9 | Amongst other things , we were always finding used syringes that had been lobbed over the wall . |
| 10 | It had been welded over the preceding decades by the authoritarianism of manager Bill Struth , staunch Presbyterian traditions , the famous ‘ iron curtain ’ defence and tough captains like Big George Young . |
| 11 | One of these , PC-Hornet , which has been developed over the past 10 years , will be shown for the first time by McDonnell Douglas . |
| 12 | In a way , the show marks the next step on from the post-industrial carnivals that have been developed over the past ten years . |
| 13 | To these ends , other means have been developed over the years , most assiduously in the three Northern Tier states . |
| 14 | Many such programs have been developed over the years to exploit the computer 's ability to retrieve and/or manipulate large quantities of data . |
| 15 | The Lothian proposals for assessing needs have been developed over the past year by the Lothian Assessment and Care Management Steering Group — an interagency group chaired by Lothian Social Work with representatives from Lothian Health Board ( medicine , nursing and planning ) , General Practitioners , District Council housing departments , housing associations , voluntary and private sector organisations and users ' and carers ' groups . |
| 16 | To encourage mobility , two separate initiatives , both covered by EC Directives , have been developed over the last few years . |
| 17 | A new framework of national awards in engineering has been developed over the last few years . |
| 18 | Our joint ventures with LVMH continue to progress well thanks to strong personal and commercial relationships which have been developed over the last five years . |
| 19 | HELP has been developed over the last five years and is available to Henley programme members throughout the world . |
| 20 | The engine has been developed over the past four years by engineers and designers at Vauxhall 's parent plant , General Motors . |
| 21 | For instance , in one of the lectures we were talking about how you know how heavy an atom is , and my colleague , Mike Pendlebury , was describing how you can actually do this by weighing a crystal and counting the number of atoms in it , erm this is certainly not the traditional way , it 's a way that 's been developed over the last few years . |
| 22 | Variations in pension cost , which are identified as a result of actuarial valuations , are amortised over the average expected remaining working lives of employees . |
| 23 | The third round of talks , in May , had been halted over the same issue [ see p. 38191 ] . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Whether or not further concealed households are formed over the next fifteen years , seems to me to be an irrelevance . |
| 26 | He had been admonished over the incident , which happened in August 1991 near his home . |
| 27 | A great deal of ink has been spilled over the nature of indirect duties , to which I will return in the next section . |
| 28 | But the German church now supported the rival Alexander , as they had not been consulted over the appointment of Paschal . |
| 29 | It should have been completed over the weekend . |
| 30 | Accordingly , a number of migration theories and general statements have been formulated over the years , as shown in Table 5.1 . |