Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] turn over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
| 2 | The aircraft was turned over to other crews and her role in the daylight bombing offensive against Nazi Germany continued until the end of hostilities . |
| 3 | Thereafter , the mill was turned over to grinding corn and animal feedstuffs , the latter accounting for much of the business in the later part of its working life . |
| 4 | Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items . |
| 5 | If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . |
| 6 | Vast territories were turned over to growing cash crops and extracting minerals for Western interests . |
| 7 | Executive power in many fields was turned over to seven committees of the State Council . |
| 8 | The first agrarian reform in the region took place in Mexico after the revolution and went through its most radical phase in the 1930s , when much good land was turned over to the ejidos , the public sector . |
| 9 | The case was turned over to another policeman with a mean , bony face and narrow eyes . |
| 10 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 11 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |