Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [prep] the [noun] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 20 | Having been offered shelter by one of the Armstrongs , Hector of Hardlaw , whom he had helped some years previously , he was treacherously handed over to the Earl of Moray , Regent of Scotland since Mary 's enforced abdication . |
| 21 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 22 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 23 | Instead , the presidential insignia and other symbols of government were handed over by the president of the anti-communist Polish government which had been in exile in London since 1939 , Ryszard Kaczorowski . |
| 24 | On Lord Mayor 's Day , when the new Lord Mayor is elected , the staff is handed over by the father of the city council to the sheriff 's lady to keep the sheriff himself in order . |
| 25 | Many of the objections to plastics of the thermosetting type for household goods and such-like applications have been got over by the development of the ‘ thermoplastic ’ resins which came into use on a large scale after 1945 . |
| 26 | A third defendant , Keith Bunting , 23 , of Ashley Road , Dovercourt , denies using threatening or insulting behaviour and resisting arrest while a fourth , Damon Wait , 17 , of Victoria Road , Dovercourt , agreed to be bound over in the sum of £50 to keep the peace for 12 months . |
| 27 | Brothers Ernest and Michael Robinson of Thompson Grove , Hartlepool , were bound over in the sum of £100 to keep the peace for six months after a fight with another man in York Road . |
| 28 | The motorwagons were pulled over to the side of the interstate when the Psychopomps ’ advance scouts first sighted them . |
| 29 | There is also a collection of Wycliff 's writings brought over at the time of England 's Queen Anne . |
| 30 | Hoxha 's statue was pulled down , and there were clashes with police in which up to 20 people were injured according to opposition sources , although eyewitness reports said also that some members of the security forces had gone over to the side of the demonstrators . |