Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , entire journals are given over to this work . |
| 2 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 3 | In an environment of heavy snowfall , where mean monthly temperatures are above freezing point in summer but down to -15°C in winter , the lakes are frozen over with 1–2 m of snow covered ice for 8–11 months each year . |
| 4 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |
| 5 | The hills are built over with Royal Palaces , villas and apartment-blocks . |
| 6 | In front gardens , lawns are paved over for off-street parking space and in the road more intrusion results from signs , barriers and other traffic-related street furniture . |
| 7 | Convoys half a mile long are watched over by scattered Afghan army outposts on the hills by the road . |
| 8 | Sir — I am concerned at the cavalier way in which the copyrights of scientific papers are handed over to commercial publishers . |
| 9 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 10 | The number of large publishers is much smaller — a figure of a few hundred , steadily diminishing as the smaller independent firms are taken over by large conglomerates . |
| 11 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 12 | The SAWS points to cases where outstanding women associates are passed over by younger , less experienced men sharing the same school tie . |
| 13 | The colleges of South Kensington were involved in this along with other groups which , unfortunately , are passed over in this account . |
| 14 | It seems that the masterplan , compiled by former Tate curator Richard Francis , is recommending that the existing galleries be given over to British art , from the sixteenth century to the present day , while another building , either already in existence , or to be built , but in either case not far from Millbank , will become the gallery of modern art . |
| 15 | By the time of Napoleon 's war against Prussia and his defeat of Frederick William III 's armies at Jena and Auerstadt in 1806 , the people of Danzig were far from disloyal to the Prussian cause , far from willing to throw off Prussian rule , lest they be handed over to some form of Polish domination . |