Example sentences of "be give 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 19 | The time spent together might be given over to sharing a game of dominoes , or cards , knitting , or having a quick drink , if the circumstances were right . |
| 20 | Where different soils allowed , some parts of the estate could be given over wholly to sheep , others to crops , all creating a need for different types of farm buildings and yards ; those no longer required would then be demolished if building materials were needed elsewhere . |
| 21 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 22 | This leads us on to OBSERVATION : so that quite a lot of time should be given over to looking . |
| 23 | This stock could be thinly spread over the entire population , or be given over in its entirety to a number of friendly societies ( a new role for the friendly societies is proposed below ) . |
| 24 | They have er thirty minutes each , er twenty minutes A at least ten minutes have to be given over to you for questions , so they speak for a maximum of twenty minutes . |
| 25 | When time permits part of the class may be given over to considering past examination questions . |
| 26 | The Inland Revenue will merely oversee the process under which thousands of properties will be given over to estate agents to lump into the banding system . |
| 27 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 28 | The morning will be given over to those two sessions . |
| 29 | Many settlements withered during the late Middle Ages but did not die until the Elizabethan or Stuart era when a local lord decided that corn production was no longer economical and that the arable land must be given over to cattle and sheep pastures . |
| 30 | Government agencies , local communities and conservation groups have agreed that 24 square kilometres of the former swamp should be given over to conservation and tourism . |