Example sentences of "was [verb] over to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) came to believe , after studying these frescoes intensively , that the West Wing of the Knossos Labyrinth in particular was given over to a whole programme of initiation rites and ordeals . |
| 2 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 3 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 4 | The building was given over to the university in 1810 , and the commode entered the Clanwilliam collection in 1831 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So much of the station was given over to the passengers , who by 1863 numbered 2.1 million annually , that a special parcels depot was built next to the station proper in 1889 . |
| 7 | The front part of the house , being somewhat darkened by evergreens , was given over to the Staff Common Room , with the classrooms of the senior forms on the first floor . |
| 8 | Much of the speech was given over to the already familiar complaints about " destructive and separatist tendencies " and about " ferocious " attempts to discredit the central government , and to exhortations to political forces to unite behind perestroika . |
| 9 | As I was walking over to the piano I was thinking , ‘ Should I really be doing this ? ’ |
| 10 | Morse smiled to himself , and was walking over to the door when Stratton spoke again : ‘ Can I ask you a favour ? ’ |
| 11 | Bell had done original design work on a defunct prop-powered XP–59 and that designation was carried over to the new effort in an attempt to mask the true nature of the project . |
| 12 | Gradually Congress was won over to the need for tax increases and cuts in public expenditure . |
| 13 | Erm that later on , the signal box that used to be here was moved over to the other side , that 's all that 's there for . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Later , the mill was turned over to the turning and manufacture of wooden items . |
| 16 | If his estimate was wrong , batting was turned over to the rivals . |
| 17 | So the flask was handed over to a nice woman who would fill it with soup , probably ‘ potage de Jean-Claude speciale au tomat de can ’ , in the morning . |
| 18 | A CHEQUE for £250 was handed over to a group of intrepid disabled skiers at Lord Mayor Treloar 's College , Froyle , this week . |
| 19 | His debt gathering work was handed over to a colleague once the legal aspects of it had been sorted out . |
| 20 | Undoubtedly Richard was handed over to a wet-nurse . |
| 21 | Security sources said Major George Serhal was handed over to the former Lebanese president , Suleiman Franjieh . |
| 22 | Soon after arriving at Marshall Malinovsky 's headquarters in Debrezcin on 17 January 1945 , Wallenberg was handed over to the NKVD , the predecessor of the KGB , and disappeared . |
| 23 | He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 24 | He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC . |
| 25 | He was handed over to the terribly liberal ( sorry , I think that should be liberally terrible ) dictator by Mr David Steel , hard-line leader of a British political grouping engaged in the notorious Lib-Lab pact , at a time when Ceausescu was still wildly popular . |
| 26 | It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 . |
| 27 | On 1 July 1932 , the electricity undertaking of the South Metropolitan company was handed over to the London & Home Counties Joint Electricity Authority , who already supplied the current in bulk . |
| 28 | Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton . |
| 29 | Eastcote was handed over to the military and the German seamen , after a temporary stay at the Alexandra Palace , were condemned to live behind barbed wire and fixed bayonets ; Alton Abbey had already been closed . |
| 30 | Magwitch 's thick wallet was handed over to the police , and Wemmick was quite annoyed with me about it . |