Example sentences of "give over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The surrounding countryside is lush and fertile and much is given over to agricultural use . |
| 3 | Contrary to popular belief , long timespans given over to arduous , repetitive practice do not necessarily equate with improvement . |
| 4 | In the schools in his survey , 22 hours a week were devoted to the 3Rs , two hours a week spent on the creative arts and three hours a week given over to other studies . |
| 5 | Administrative assets " primarily used for the purposes of the former Ministry of State Security/National Security Office " would " accrue to the Trust Agency unless they have already been given over to new social or public purposes since the above mentioned date " . |
| 6 | Organised by Methodist Guild Holidays , the seven days included travelling and visiting preserved railways within the area each day by coach , with evenings given over to special interests in railway preservation . |
| 7 | The Young Telegraph ( no 24 , 16 March 1991 ) demonstrates this trend clearly — there is one page given over to green issues and one question ( What colour are copper sulphate crystals ? ) on chemistry . |
| 8 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 9 | Motorists entering the core , are confronted by 30 km/ h signs and strong visual clues as to how to behave : surfaces change and comers are necked down and given over to non-traffic uses ( Figures 6.44 and 6.45 ) . |
| 10 | Admittedly , the weather was worse , English fortunes were at a low ebb , and the higher charges may well have deterred many people , especially the Caribbean fans ; but one suspects that some thousands of people simply could not face the prospect of yet another day almost entirely given over to fast bowling . |
| 11 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 12 | But the space given over to public affairs features also showed an increase ( see Table 4.5 ) . |
| 13 | And so the last page or so is given over to French names : Corbière and Jammes and De Regnier ; Tailhade and Romains ; Vildrac , Spire and Arcos — poets who at the present day have few readers even among the French . |
| 14 | The final destruction of the road 's equilibrium took place when it was given over to high speed travel by car . |
| 15 | These settlements were established on public and private land progressively seized by Israel from 1967 onwards , declared ‘ state land ’ and given over to Jewish rather than Palestinian use . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Not all of Andalusia and Estremadura was a kingdom of vast entailed latifundia peopled by overseers and landless labourers , given over to huge fields of wheat , barley , and fallows , to olive monocultures ( as in Jaén ) , or to the scrub pastures and the bull ranches of the great houses . |
| 18 | The ground floor of the gallery is given over to Gothic and ‘ International Gothic ’ art . |
| 19 | The third section of Demant 's 1936 Christian Polity ( Faber & Faber ) is given over to anthropological essays , such as ‘ Idols : Their Place and Influence in Religious History ’ where again we meet the names of Elliot Smith , Tylor , Ellis , Frazer , McDougall , Robertson Smith , and others . |
| 20 | The Times Block was a three-storey building with the upper two floors given over to residential flats . |
| 21 | In the limit B 0 , the complex map can be approximated by the real noninvertible map where I = E. Introduction of a finite value for augments the left side of the above by a term , and the index n gives over to continuous time t . |