Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had come over from the east with her Arab mother , who , once in Britain , had married a stranger in order to stay — rather like buying a spare part to save one 's life . |
| 6 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 7 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 8 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 9 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 10 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 11 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The steady expansion of land given over to the production of cash crops and the growth in population inevitably resulted in a decline in the proportion of villagers able to make a living from subsistence agriculture . |
| 14 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |
| 15 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 16 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 17 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 18 | At the end nearest the tube station was a block of shops containing a small supermarket run by Pakistanis , a Greek restaurant run by Cypriots , a triple-fronted emporium given over to the sale of motor-cycle spare parts and equipment and a paper shop run by people who when asked where they came from ingenuously replied that they were Cape Coloureds . |
| 19 | There is a cramped , faded little room given over to the recognition of the literary achievements of the region , in homage to writers who were not themselves Basques but who settled here : the playwright Edmond Rostand , author of the extraordinary Cyrano de Bergerac ; the exotic novelist Pierre Loti , who lived and died in Hendaye ; the sentimental poet Francis Jammes , pictured here in a charming naive portrait , impossibly bearded and together with his wife and their wildly staring dog . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 22 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 23 | They clearly appreciated what a magnificent building they had acquired and spent £800,000 on restoration and conversion of the Grade II listed structure , which was subsequently turned over to the manufacture of high-technology measuring equipment . |
| 24 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 25 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 26 | LEFT : Merrets Mill was used as a cloth mill but was later turned over to the production of flock , shoddy and mill puff , by the Grist family . |
| 27 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 28 | I 'd been yo-yoing up and down a rollercoaster for the best part of an hour and I was still hung over from the phial of ‘ Renshenfengwangjiang ’ — a potent blend of panax ginseng and royal bee jelly — that Michael Willis had persuaded me to drink for breakfast . |
| 29 | John Ensall said residual problems had hung over from the change in working arrangements introduced in January . |
| 30 | An E minor when it should have been an E major brings the rehearsal to yet another halt while the suspect note is cordially argued over by the boys in the band . |