Example sentences of "is given over " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 2 | The third section of Demant 's 1936 Christian Polity ( Faber & Faber ) is given over to anthropological essays , such as ‘ Idols : Their Place and Influence in Religious History ’ where again we meet the names of Elliot Smith , Tylor , Ellis , Frazer , McDougall , Robertson Smith , and others . |
| 3 | The evening is given over to mission experience through film or slides , then night prayer followed by a social evening . |
| 4 | Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture . |
| 5 | Aumann , for example , quoted Mark Twain 's account of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 in which the American writer spoke of ‘ desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds — a silent mournful expanse … |
| 6 | The ground floor of the gallery is given over to Gothic and ‘ International Gothic ’ art . |
| 7 | The morning is given over to the religious aspect of celebrations , the afternoon belongs to the children , while the brass bands come into their own in the evening . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that most space is given over to circulation and parking , with special provision made for particular needs ( Figure 6.45 ) , the area is still overwhelmed by the sheer volume of parked vehicles . |
| 9 | About midway through the film , a long sequence is given over to Barbara Harris , auditioning for a show by singing , intentionally weakly , ‘ Painting The Clouds With Sunshine ’ . |
| 10 | It is given over to writing between 2,000 and 2,500 words and it takes from three to four and a half hours to do . |
| 11 | Cyber-punk bubblegum ( ‘ Sound And Vision ’ , ‘ Speed Of Life ’ ) vies with biker torch songs ( ‘ What In The World ’ , ‘ Be My Wife ’ ) and , in a curious , brave and cocky gambit , a whole side is given over to Bowie 's new love , his opaque and enigmatic instrumental collaboration with Eno . |
| 12 | The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use . |
| 13 | The second CD is given over in the main to what I think of as Mark Goodier bands ( not a breath of criticism implicit in that , by the way ) . |
| 14 | An inordinate proportion of this slender book is given over to digression and quotation ( including a graceful , tongue-in-cheek , tribute to The Economist ) . |
| 15 | The first issue is given over to Edmont Couchot , research director and professor in the Department of Arts and Image Technologies at the University of Paris 8 . |
| 16 | In winter it is given over to turnstones , purple sandpiper , oystercatchers and other shellfish-eating birds . |
| 17 | The tail of the electric eel contains 10 000 tiny electric organs , arranged in 70 columns , and over half of the fish is given over to electricity production . |
| 18 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 19 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 20 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |
| 21 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 22 | As further evidence of diversity Room Three is given over to work by students from Colleges of Art and Polytechnics and in Room Four with the fully engaged professionals , there is Alan Dawson 's hugely impressive floor to ceiling Ball and Pin sculpture , Terence Clark 's open wall sculpture , and a spiky gate by Brian Russell , who did his training in Sunderland and now has a forge at Little Newsham , just outside Darlington . |
| 23 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |