Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | One well-known example would be the basic social security regulation , Regulation 1408/71 which , although still in force , has been amended over and over again . |
| 2 | It is whether we are prepared to destroy the tripartite system that has been developed in this country since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act of eighteen thirty five and the Local Government Act of eighteen eighty eight , for make no mistake about it Clause two of this Bill effectively destroys the careful balance that has been developed over more than a century between chief officers , local police authorities and the Home Secretary . |
| 3 | A sample of 150 households has been monitored over two heating seasons and is accompanied by a larger sample in order to check for the representativeness of the more detailed data collected in the panel study . |
| 4 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps when the kop has been seated over they can rename it the ‘ David Batty Memorial End ’ |
| 6 | It is concentrated in dense masses around Cap Martin , but has been sighted over 130 kilometres away near Toulon . |
| 7 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 8 | The fact that shareholders are no longer also running the firms they own has been chewed over at least since the 1930s . |
| 9 | A 35.5 cm high Egyptian quartzite bust of Senbef , a court official in the reign of King Psamtik I , has been sent over from the United States for this two-day sale of Antiquities and is estimated to fetch £600–800,000 ( $1.1–1.5m ) . |
| 10 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 11 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 12 | This issue of Supporters News has been given over almost entirely to the campaign on the proposed ban on all tobacco advertising and promotion , put forward in a draft European Community Directive in May . |
| 13 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 14 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
| 15 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 16 | It has been said over and over again that pupils need to gain confidence , and that confidence comes from success . |
| 17 | The system , the first of its kind in the UK , has been devised over two years by a wide range of training bodies , including Scottish Enterprise , Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Vocational Education Council . |
| 18 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 19 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 20 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 21 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 22 | The common application programming interface that it and Hewlett-Packard Co worked on with Objectivity Inc , Ontos Inc , Object Design Inc and Versant Object Technology Inc , to allow developers to write programs that could utilise any object database — work that has been turned over to the Object Management Group — is a Spring technology ( UX No 362 ) . |
| 23 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 24 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 25 | Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed . |
| 26 | Well that that is now accommodation for away supporters down at there is no cover over it as yet , there were plans to make a covered stand of it but er they have n't it has been covered over and that 's where the away supporters still stand to this day and a little bit around the corner at the bottom end , at the railway end as they call it now , not the laundry end . |
| 27 | The narrator , returning to the box shortly afterwards , finds that the signalman has been run over by a train . |
| 28 | A house has stood on this site since the year 1216 , when the Bishop of Lincoln ordained a vicarage here , but it has been rebuilt over and over again , and last of all in 1856 . |
| 29 | A total of £76,000 has been promised over four years of which £57,000 is in hand now . |
| 30 | Since then Stanley has been taken over by Ward White , Harris by James Gulliver 's Lowndes , and Ward White has been taken over by Boots . |