Example sentences of "[vb pp] over to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But their sons and grandsons were all won over to Christianity . |
| 2 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 3 | That was a signal for the class to enter into the fun and one and all scrambled over to Mademoiselle . |
| 4 | In March 1928 he wrote on a theme which relates to that of Ash-Wednesday ( Part 11 ) , hoping that Hardy 's burial in more than one site would not establish a precedent and that future great men would not be ‘ dismembered ’ as if the nation were ‘ given over to idolatry of relics and fetishes ’ . |
| 5 | The final garden section has been screened off neatly with espalier fruit and given over to salad crops and utility elements such as a shed , a compost area and an incinerator ( essential ingredients in most compositions ) . |
| 6 | In witnessing to the lost , preaching the Gospel with harshness will only harden the heart of the sinner , whereas a life given over to humility , gentleness and brokenness will break the heart of a stone ( Psalm 126 : 5,6 ) . |
| 7 | The tail of the electric eel contains 10 000 tiny electric organs , arranged in 70 columns , and over half of the fish is given over to electricity production . |
| 8 | An inordinate proportion of this slender book is given over to digression and quotation ( including a graceful , tongue-in-cheek , tribute to The Economist ) . |
| 9 | This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring . |
| 10 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 11 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 12 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 13 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 14 | Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture . |
| 15 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 16 | Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games , set walks , leisure periods and detention . |
| 17 | The evening is given over to mission experience through film or slides , then night prayer followed by a social evening . |
| 18 | Karajan 's return to music-making and recording in 1946–7 was brought about with the help of Legge and , at much the same time , the great Italian conductor Victor de Sabata , another man totally given over to music but whom the whirligig of public opinion had rightly exonerated despite extensive war work in both Italy and Germany in front of audiences of all manner of political persuasions . |
| 19 | Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries land previously used for pasture was gradually given over to cultivation . |
| 20 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 21 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 22 | Despite the fact that most space is given over to circulation and parking , with special provision made for particular needs ( Figure 6.45 ) , the area is still overwhelmed by the sheer volume of parked vehicles . |
| 23 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 24 | Nature has reclaimed much of the land once given over to industry |
| 25 | In 1920 the 20 acres given over to farming to support the war effort , were re-possessed and relaid by Suttons . |
| 26 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 27 | In villages where there were four arable fields a typical set of crops would have been one field of wheat , one of barley , one of beans with one other field , known as the fallow , given over to grazing . |
| 28 | Mr Tennant said : ‘ In the case of Burnfoot 100 per cent of hill land will be given over to forestry . |
| 29 | In order to accommodate this the basement is now given over to office space while the ground floor continues to carry monographs and catalogues of Western art . |
| 30 | So William erm on Thursday night erm he said on B B C's Question Time erm which was given over to crime and punishment issues which had not been debated and erm William said he 'd a come to the conclusion now that he believed drug taking should be made legal . |