Example sentences of "be [vb pp] over [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 2 | St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one . |
| 3 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 4 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 5 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 6 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |
| 7 | By October 1989 , 20 per cent of Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia had been withdrawn , and military equipment , facilities and the base at Ulaan Orhon had been handed over to the Mongolian government [ for start of withdrawal in May 1989 see p. 36657 ] . |
| 8 | About three tonnes of gold deposited in Sweden had been handed over to the Soviet Union when it recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1941 . |
| 9 | Some reports in early December alleged that Arad was being held in Syria , having been handed over to the Syrian government by Hezbollah , although Hezbollah officially denied any knowledge of Arad . |
| 10 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 11 | A CHEQUE for £890 has been handed over to the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund by firemen in Downpatrick . |
| 12 | However , that right ceases when the second copy of the consignment note has been handed over to the original designated consignee . |
| 13 | In reality this may not be the case : the explanation could simply be that the camera position for the second shot has been shifted over to the other side of the path . |
| 14 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 15 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 16 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 17 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |
| 18 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 19 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 20 | He was suspended for five matches by UEFA after his verbal attack on Swedish referee Rune Larrson during the European Cup-Winners ' Cup game against Spartak Moscow last October — four games of which will be carried over to the next Liverpool campaign in Europe following their elimination last October by Spartak Moscow . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Bill Davies , who provided the cross , can be seen over on the right wing . |
| 23 | She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For some of their land to be handed over to the Roman soldiers was a bitter pill to swallow , for it meant the loss of the Colne peninsula and much else , which left them only the Essex marches and lands to the north and the area round modern Chelmsford , which probably became their tribal centre . |