Example sentences of "[vb pp] over to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 2 | a widow is the first line of a paragraph left alone at the foot of a page and an orphan is the last line of a paragraph carried over to the top of a new page . |
| 3 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 4 | This division of the sky was eventually carried over to the division of the circle and so led to our present habit of dividing the complete ( two-dimensional ) angle around a point into 360 degrees . |
| 5 | The battle for political supremacy was thus carried over to the Congress itself . |
| 6 | It 's a pity this finish quality is n't carried over to the fingerboard , an area of a budget guitar which often lets it down . |
| 7 | Five or six young boys had come over to the fire with some scraps of meat and sections of cleaned intestine that they skewered with s ticks and laid on the embers to roast . |
| 8 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |
| 9 | Nothing that the Minister has said today convinces me that his heart and his mind have been won over to the case for a funding council . |
| 10 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 11 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 12 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 13 | There was scarcely any time for a cigarette before we were hustled over to the equipment store . |
| 14 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 15 | It wove its way through the commercial dockside industry of the town which gave place , in time , to acres given over to the cultivation of the motor car in all its stages , new , second-hand and crushed to scrap . |
| 16 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 17 | It was in fact a large room divided in two , one half being given over to the mistress 's wardrobe and dressing stool , with the pier-glass in the corner , the other providing a small chamber with room only for a cot bed . |
| 18 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 19 | What remained of the gardens was now given over to the university 's botany department , and so the building had been able to retain much of its outward character . |
| 20 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 21 | The Sun had pages 1 , 2 , 4 , 5 , 15 , 16 , 17 and 18 given over to the story , while the others managed with only one or two pages fewer . |
| 22 | A ten-fold increase in fish farming is expected in Milford Haven , Pembrokeshire , over the next couple of years and , already , sizeable plots of land have been given over to the business . |
| 23 | The afternoon , given over to the business meeting , was enlivened by the presentation of the Society 's cheque by our President to Age Concern and the draw for champagne for two lucky new members . |
| 24 | The steady expansion of land given over to the production of cash crops and the growth in population inevitably resulted in a decline in the proportion of villagers able to make a living from subsistence agriculture . |
| 25 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 26 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |
| 27 | The result was the meaty and woolly Southdown sheep , whose extensive use kept the local downland primarily as pasture , unlike chalkland elsewhere , which was largely given over to the plough in the later eighteenth century . |
| 28 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 29 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 30 | To starboard is a considerable area given over to the navigator and surrounded by the yacht 's ostentatious gallery of navigational electronics : Navstar 2000D Decca , 2000 satnav and XR4 GPs , a Skanti 8400S SSB radio and 3000 VHF and a Raytheon R20s radar . |