Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ The provision of the men who were eventually to take over responsibility for the management of an enterprise was regarded as a matter of making sure that enough young men entered business at the foot of the ladder , ’ wrote Falk of the old days . |
| 2 | Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy . |
| 3 | The castle of Poli , which dominated the north of the Campagna , and its fiefs were slowly taken over . |
| 4 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | The logic of such a development was that previous allegiances to Nizan were necessarily passed over in silence . |
| 7 | The differences were only patched over when ministers heard during the meeting that Baker and Aziz would meet . |
| 8 | The machines were only ticking over . |
| 9 | Medeva 's OTC products were only turning over £4–4.5m including exports , so they were not viable in this cut throat business . |
| 10 | Voices were suddenly raised over in the crowd and people began scattering to the edges of the area , clearing the centre and falling silent . |
| 11 | We stumbled along a very rough track on the glacier moraine and were soon stepping over or round a dismal line of skulls and bones , bleached pure white by the elements . |
| 12 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 13 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 14 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 15 | We were just bowled over by Expo euphoria . |
| 16 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 17 | This duty was helped by the fact that the general hospital units being built up in the London catchment area were already taking over the functions of the asylums . |
| 18 | The engines were already turning over . |
| 19 | London , as it watched the decline of New York and Paris as theatrical capitals , maintained over fifty theatres , subsidised and commercial — of which most , on any week-day evening , were usually given over to legitimate theatre . |
| 20 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 21 | The LTTE offensive appeared to take the government by surprise , and over 20 police stations were quickly taken over by the LTTE . |
| 22 | Another time he passed a copse of exposed trees that had been battered by the prevailing wind for so long that the trees were permanently bent over . |
| 23 | Shop windows were still frosted over and dustbins lay unemptied in the icy streets . |
| 24 | The German barrage seemed to be slackening off a bit , though the Allied guns were still firing over our positions , their shells shaking the trees as they headed toward the German trenches with a loud swish as they passed overhead . |
| 25 | Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp were still vacillating over whether or not an announcement of the COSI Common Open Systems Interface initiative would be forthcoming on March 17 at UniForum in San Francisco . |
| 26 | Hewlett-Packard and IBM Corp were still vacillating over whether or not an announcement of the COSI Common Open Systems Interface initiative would be forthcoming on March 17th at UniForum in San Francisco ( UX No 424 , 425 ) . |
| 27 | The Greens were still arguing over whether the time had come to loosen principle a little and elect a leader , a public face , perhaps Sara Parkin , the International Liaison Secretary of the UK Greens as well as the European Greens ' co-ordination co-secretary . |
| 28 | The major bus undertakings and the UndergrounD railways ( including the Metropolitan ) were also taken over on that day , and the minor bus operators were drawn in one at a time later , but the main line railway companies ( including their suburban services ) were excluded . |
| 29 | The third section offers a critical exploration of possible starting points for new strategies , not least by looking anew at some of the difficult and resilient questions about cultural identity and belongingness , about ethnicity and community , that were often glossed over or disavowed in the antiracist movement . |
| 30 | Female graduates facing ever-increasing competition were often passed over in favour of their male classmates even when they possessed better qualifications . |