Example sentences of "was given over " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 2 | How much of the discussion was given over to reporting back on the perceptions of others including children ? |
| 3 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 4 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 5 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 6 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 7 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 8 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 9 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 10 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 11 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 12 | Time now passed untrackably , for it was given over to struggle , with the bed like a trap or a pit , covered in nets , and the sense of starting out on a terrible journey , towards a terrible secret . |
| 13 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 14 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 15 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 16 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 17 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 18 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |