Example sentences of "[vb pp] over to a " in BNC.
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| 1 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 2 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 3 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 4 | Across the stretch of water are the three other islands , the Střelecký , where archers trained in their craft ; the Dětský or Jews ' Island , now given over to a children 's playground ; and the Slovanský which used to have a fine dance hall . |
| 5 | There are two cosy sitting rooms , a dining room and bar , and a fourth public room , given over to a snooker table . |
| 6 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 7 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 8 | To mark the new trend five floors of the Centre are being given over to a series of exhibitions , films , digital images , sound recordings , debates and theatrical events , tracing the history of artistic creativity over the last thirty years . |
| 9 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 10 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 11 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 12 | In mid-August a dozen members paid an evening visit to the Bridgnorth area , not this time to see the Severn Valley Railway , but to see the Oldbury Live Steam Museum , a complete garden given over to a variety of exhibits , mainly around a railway theme , but also with models of vintage buses , ships and aeroplanes . |
| 13 | For the rest of the week it is given over to a different selection : good second-hand clothes , useful but redundant household articles , outgrown children 's toys plus almost anything that someone no longer needs and someone else might use . |
| 14 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |
| 15 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 16 | But peasants also complained when what they called ‘ doctors ’ came out to inspect their cattle and sanitary arrangements , or when two peasants who had murdered their wives had to be handed over to a visiting ‘ social court ’ ( obshchestvennyi sud ) set up by a shefstvo team . |
| 17 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 18 | So the flask was handed over to a nice woman who would fill it with soup , probably ‘ potage de Jean-Claude speciale au tomat de can ’ , in the morning . |
| 19 | The procedure can , of course , easily be handed over to a computer . |
| 20 | ‘ Attention was called to the Company 's payment of £50 per annum to the Vicar of Stantonbury for managing these schools , seeing that they are about to be handed over to a School Board and it was agreed that the payment be continued as in respect of Sunday School management , but during the pleasure of the Board and to the present incumbent only ’ . |
| 21 | A CHEQUE for £250 was handed over to a group of intrepid disabled skiers at Lord Mayor Treloar 's College , Froyle , this week . |
| 22 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 23 | The critics of Schiller 's cost research argued that electricity tariff policy could not be ‘ handed over to a set of calculating machines ’ , and claimed instead to base their prices on ‘ judgement and wisdom ’ . |
| 24 | Lords temporal were not mustered as members of the county community : it would never have done for ‘ my lord ’ to be paraded on the village green by some Dogberry and Verges , even a Justice Shallow , made to line up with Mouldy , Shadow , Wart and the rest , to be handed over to a red-nosed , pot-bellied mercenary captain , to be abused and maybe put on a charge by his blustering subordinates , and finally |
| 25 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 26 | Alice was to be handed over to a guardian nominated by Richard , who would marry her after his return from crusade . |
| 27 | These bets would be handed over to a runner and signed with each man 's racing nom de plume , be it his nickname or any other name he considered lucky . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | This led to doubt as to the effectiveness of the decree , which also ordered the colony 's property to be handed over to a Methodist church , even though much of it had been sold to individual members of the colony , who were not themselves to be subject to specific government action . |
| 30 | 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 . |