Example sentences of "to have [vb pp] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A crust appears to have formed over the volcanic rubble , but red-hot lava began creeping over it yesterday and into a private orchard . |
| 2 | ICL 's second trophy went to its Bracknell , Berkshire-based Mid Range Systems division for the volume of DRS 6000 series systems and associated Unix products and services shipped abroad — its revenues are reckoned to have trebled over the past three years to over £250m ; Cambridge-based IXI Ltd was recognised for its success in the open systems software arena with its X.desktop product for Unix , and Chalfont , Buckinghamshire-based Madge Networks Ltd , which ships its high performance Token Ring networking products across the world , and finds it necessary to kid the locals that it 's an American company when it is doing business in the US , also wins an Export award . |
| 3 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 4 | For the Al Fayeds to have dissembled over the origins of their own money was hardly of great moment . |
| 5 | At the first meeting in the department I did what every other Transport Minister appears to have done over the previous ten years : I hired Professor Sir Alec Cairncross to advise me . |
| 6 | A longitudinal study by John Fox and Peter Goldblatt of City University , London , showed that men unemployed at the time of the 1971 census were much more likely to have died over the subsequent four years . |
| 7 | Mr Cole said Johanna seemed to have got over the break-up with her boyfriend , who joined the search for her . |
| 8 | Nigel Worthington appears to have got over the disappointment of losing in last week 's FA Cup final replay to Arsenal and will play what is believed to be his 67th game of the season tomorrow . |
| 9 | He seems to have got over the shock pretty quickly . ’ |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the overall impression in all the islands is of coastline submergence ; a process that appears to have occurred over the last 8,000 years or so with the amount of sea level rise being estimated as approximately 5 m . |
| 11 | The woman she seemed to have become over the course of a single weekend — just forty-eight hours — bore no resemblance to the vague mental picture she had always , possibly complacently , had of herself . |
| 12 | Patience is not what we associate with Pound , and from time to time he seems to have kicked over the traces ( at least once to be ticked off for it by Dorothy ) : yet we see all over again that the young Pound was well content with Edwardian England , was hopeful of it and ready to abide by its rules in everything that mattered . |
| 13 | He was regarded as the architect of the PLO 's security and counterintelligence apparatus and was frequently assumed to have presided over the creation of the Black September organization , which was active from 1971-73 and whose actions included the attack at the Munich Olympic Games in 1972 . |
| 14 | It must have transmitted itself to the patients , for even they gave up after their initial attempts at jollity , and by mid-morning a definite air of gloom seemed to have settled over the place . |
| 15 | The marginal platforms appear to have prograded over the top of the mud aprons and when combined with the latter , form lenticular bodies of sediments ( Figs . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding these excesses of zeal , the Evangelical Alliance booklet does not appear to have gone over the top . |
| 17 | What seems to have happened over the last twenty years or so is that a higher proportion of juveniles are being dealt with officially by the police rather than being dealt with unofficially or warned . |
| 18 | North wanted the Monimbo seized or sunk ; Poindexter wanted ‘ measures taken to make sure ship does not arrive in Nicaragua ’ ; McFarlane seems to have choked over the legality of piracy , and the ship and the rifles got through . |
| 19 | Security forces were reported to have fired over the heads of hundreds of demonstrators apparently bent on storming the official residence of President Ali Abdullah Saleh in Sana'a on Dec. 11 . |
| 20 | it seems to have changed over the last few years |