Example sentences of "[be] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 2 | Leapor often compliments other women in her poems , and two poems , ‘ Song to Cloe , playing on her Spinnet ’ and ‘ Silvia and the Bee ’ , are given over to praising the beauty and the accomplishments of particular friends . |
| 3 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 4 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 5 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 6 | Visit Bodrum on market day , a lively occasion when whole streets are given over to selling spices or fruit , day old chicks or melons , and the most colourful variety of vegetables . |
| 7 | The last two weeks of the college year are given over to work experienCe or end of year activities ( EYA ) . |
| 8 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 9 | They are puzzling over whether it should be spelt ‘ E.C.U . ’ |
| 10 | The electricity supply is also regulated so that ‘ surges ’ in the National Grid — which may accompany the beginning or end of certain television programmes and so affect domestic lighting and identify the passage of time — are smoothed over . |
| 11 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 12 | Kramer 's books , on Dupont Circle , offers cups of cappucino as books are mulled over . |
| 13 | Then plan a week or two away from the village in order to catch up with some of those desk jobs that are hanging over your head . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It 's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles . |
| 16 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 17 | A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 23 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The body 's centre section is maple too , and you 'd not normally see that because traditionally it 's been painted over ; and the bridge is different , more solid-looking ; and the pickups … etc. , etc … |
| 26 | So the pair of them have probably been mulling over all the old grievances — in their minds , if not openly . ’ |
| 27 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 28 | The programme is open to people who have been mulling over an idea for some time and experts will give it the commercial analysis it needs and , if it stands up , the business planning and search for funding that it merits . |
| 29 | All the convulsions and brutal gashings of the rural landscape by the railway engineers have long been smoothed over and forgotten ; and we take the railway earthworks and monuments as much for granted as we do the hedges and fields of the enclosure commissioners or the churches of our medieval forefathers . |
| 30 | Josie 's mood seemed okay , which suggested to Lucy that any problems that her presence may have caused must now have been smoothed over . |