Example sentences of "[vb pp] over to " in BNC.

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1 This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees .
2 a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page .
3 an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting .
4 It 's a pity this finish quality is n't carried over to the fingerboard , an area of a budget guitar which often lets it down .
5 It 's basically the body that Rickenbacker introduced first on the Combo 650 and Combo 850 guitars back in 1957 , the same shape they later carried over to Lennon 's favourite , the model 325 .
6 Their third conclusion is that ‘ when new technology is introduced an inappropriate form of work organization — that associated with the technical trial of the machinery — tends to be carried over to subsequent operational units ’ ( Trist et al. 1963 , 293 ) .
7 The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) .
8 So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day .
9 Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project .
10 When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway .
11 Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful .
12 Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful .
13 Economists noted , however , that the downward trend was unlikely to be carried over to 1990 , and in December 1989 the Ministry of International Trade and Industry ( Miti ) announced a package of measures designed to encourage " drastic " imports into the country .
14 The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself .
15 He was suspended for five matches by UEFA after his verbal attack on Swedish referee Rune Larrson during the European Cup-Winners ' Cup game against Spartak Moscow last October — four games of which will be carried over to the next Liverpool campaign in Europe following their elimination last October by Spartak Moscow .
16 I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk .
17 Ari , rubbing her bruises , had limped over to Nathan who was weeping uncontrollably , telling everyone it was his fault .
18 one of Mrs Tibbs 's boarders , ‘ an Irishman recently imported ’ who was ‘ in a perfectly wild state ; and had come over to England to be an apothecary , a clerk in a government office , an actor , a reporter , or anything else that turned up — he was not particular ’ .
19 Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast .
20 The prince had come over to London to be married — from the house of Anna 's sister who was settled there — he hated every minute of it .
21 Janina 's father was a Polish Jew who had come over to Britain to fight in the war .
22 He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post .
23 We could have come over to Bruges in the evening and dined together at the Duc de Bourgogne . ’
24 Yet only twenty years later the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield was the focus of the attention of around twenty million viewers as Steve Davis was defeated on the final ball of the final frame by Dennis Taylor , who became the world champion in what The Times ( won over to ‘ popular culture ’ under its antipodean ownership ) declared to be a ‘ heart-stopping ’ match .
25 But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity .
26 If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner .
27 The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies .
28 If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies .
29 With Ingres Corp and Informix Software Inc already won over to CAFS Content-Addressable File Store-based database Search Accelerator hardware , ICL says that Oracle Systems Corp has now signed to implement a version of its database for the system , while Sybase Inc is waiting in the wings to follow suit .
30 It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade .
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