Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] over [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ANDY and Fergie 's Dallas-style mansion — dubbed ‘ Southyork ’ by the locals — is now a £1,000-a-day ghost house and should be turned over to the homeless , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 2 | Most difficult to resolve in the struggle for jurisdiction over clerks who were charged with crimes was whether they could be tried twice , as clause three of the royal Constitutions of Clarendon ( 1164 ) outlined , first in the king 's court and then in the church court , and whether , if found guilty , they should be handed over to a civil court for the passing of the sentence . |
| 3 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 4 | In particular , as a first step towards clearing the area , he was suggesting that , as Macmillan had advised , the Cossacks should be handed over to the Soviet authorities , although , as he had made clear to Tolbukhin 's HQ , he could not do this without Gen McCreery 's authorization . |
| 5 | By the time Robertson sent his signal from AFHQ [ KP 103 ] on the night of 14/15 May , the decision had been taken in principle that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviet forces . |
| 6 | The State Department thus confirmed Macmillan 's recommendation that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviets in accordance with the Yalta agreement . |
| 7 | But , as events had unfolded , what it turned out had not yet been settled was precisely which formations should be handed over to the Soviet authorities . |
| 8 | He always forgets that , with the Inland Revenue , we are considering how much of a citizen 's money should be handed over to the state , whereas in matters relating to benefits we are considering how the taxpayer 's money is handed out on our behalf . |
| 9 | The dispute concerned what proportion of the Fleet should become Ukrainian and what should be handed over to the joint Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) strategic forces . |
| 10 | In the House of Commons , Clement Attlee reiterated that it would be impossible for Britain ‘ to accept the principle that the most vital economic forces of this country should be handed over to an authority that is utterly undemocratic and is responsible to nobody ’ . |
| 11 | Will he also condemn the scandalous proposal that when the PSA is privatised , up to £85 million of taxpayers ' money should be handed over by the Government to Tarmac , which will take it over , so that any proposed redundancies of men and women in the PSA will be paid not by the privatising company but by the taxpayer ? |
| 12 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 13 | It recognized that there was a National Health Service and a private sector and , rather than arguing that one should be taken over by the other , proposed sensible cooperation between them for the benefit of patients . |
| 14 | It recommends that it should be taken over by the academy because of its focus on basic research and that it should at the same time establish links with a university . |
| 15 | To reproduce the slurring of the chords on to the octave D on the 3rd beat of each bar a pianistic effect — the chords must be tied over to a quaver on the 3rd beat , the bassoons , tuba , double bass ( pizz. ) , timpani , and bass drum supplying the octave Ds . |
| 16 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 17 | It must be handed over to the embalmers then , or it will be too late . ’ |
| 18 | Since the receiver is the mortgagor 's agent , the mortgagee is not responsible for the receiver 's acts and defaults ; and any surplus beyond the outgoings ( including the receiver 's remuneration ) and the interest due , must be paid over to the mortgagor , and will not go in reduction of the principal . |
| 19 | There was a proviso that should the value of the jewels exceed the amount of the debt , the excess must be paid over to the king 's treasury . |
| 20 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 21 | is the environment you work in and the major benefit that you 'll be putting over to the |
| 22 | That the number of town dwellers grew and that such a large proportion of output could be made over to the ruling class without permanent and chronic nationwide famine or substantial evidence of huge tax arrears suggest that peasants continued to produce well above subsistence level . |
| 23 | I find it difficult to understand those who say they are planning for next year 's championships — what is the point , they could be run over by a bus before next year ? |
| 24 | The magnitude of the NLD 's victory placed into question the validity of the SLORC 's stricture that the sole purpose of the election was to establish a Constituent Assembly without legislative power , whose task would be to draw up a new constitution before power could be handed over to a " strong " government , generally interpreted as meaning one acceptable to the military . |
| 25 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 26 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 27 | He said that He used to tell me about his country that you know it was taken over by the Russians and then it 'd be taken over by the Germans and You know what I mean . |
| 28 | Most of the new people who 'd be coming over in the last couple of years a lot of them would n't be coming out to our concerts yet because they would probably be into a more younger scene like the Mary Blacks , maybe or the Christian Moore or somebody like that you would be catering for a younger audience and the the second third generation would be coming out to the First to the Foster and Allens and the Daniel O'Donnells and the Brendan Shines you know . |
| 29 | THREE historic sites in Colchester now run by English Heritage may be taken over by the borough council . |
| 30 | She had merely telephoned to let him know that she would be handing over to a girl called Kate . |