Example sentences of "been [vb pp] over to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 4 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 9 | The common application programming interface that it and Hewlett-Packard Co worked on with Objectivity Inc , Ontos Inc , Object Design Inc and Versant Object Technology Inc , to allow developers to write programs that could utilise any object database — work that has been turned over to the Object Management Group — is a Spring technology ( UX No 362 ) . |
| 10 | The statement said that Col. Robertson had died when his plane crashed over North Vietnam in 1966 and that his remains had been handed over to the USA in April 1990 . |
| 11 | And as the prince played a round with bubbly brunette Gillian Petrie , it was revealed that the tape , containing a veiled threat that the Duchess would flee to her mother in Argentina , had been handed over to the Queen 's lawyers . |
| 12 | French referee Daniel Salles complained in an interview after the tournament that the top refereeing assignments in Catania had been handed over to the Home Unions referees , implying some kind of conspiracy — all of which is an absolute nonsense . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 15 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 16 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 17 | The report has been handed over to the R U C Constable Hugh Annersley . |
| 18 | All this initial provision had been handed over to the Department . |
| 19 | He said at Dumfries Sheriff Court that he and his friend had gone to the upstairs lavatory in the dormitory building about half-an-hour after going to bed when they had been called over to the girls ' room . |
| 20 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 21 | Where money has been paid over to the debtor before the end of the " cooling-off " period , the CCA 1974 gives the debtor the choice : firstly , to take a month 's free credit before repaying the credit already advanced ( s71(2) ( a ) ) ; or secondly , with regard to money already spent , he can repay the money with interest , as provided for in the credit agreement , so that the effect of the cancellation only relates to the linked supply transaction ( s71(3) ) . |
| 22 | Due to pressure on space in this issue of The Lifeboat reports of several naming and dedication ceremonies have been held over to the Autumn issues . |