Example sentences of "[be] give over [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is evident that in many of our residential areas no such balance any longer exists , for the street has been given over entirely to the car , with other functions now expected to be subordinate to it . |
| 2 | This issue of Supporters News has been given over almost entirely to the campaign on the proposed ban on all tobacco advertising and promotion , put forward in a draft European Community Directive in May . |
| 3 | Where different soils allowed , some parts of the estate could be given over wholly to sheep , others to crops , all creating a need for different types of farm buildings and yards ; those no longer required would then be demolished if building materials were needed elsewhere . |
| 4 | Aumann , for example , quoted Mark Twain 's account of his visit to the Holy Land in 1867 in which the American writer spoke of ‘ desolate country whose soil is rich enough but is given over wholly to weeds — a silent mournful expanse … |
| 5 | Though the Reformation brought an end to Grandison 's college , the medieval college houses were allowed to remain , and the collegiate church , to which a magnificent parish aisle had recently been added , was given over completely to the people of the town . |
| 6 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |