Example sentences of "been [verb] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 4 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 5 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | Although most of this chapter has been given over to an exposition of the policy inefficacy proposition which was grounded in the aggregate demand-aggregate supply framework where variations in the absolute price level figure prominently , the reader should note that many new classical writers simply take it for granted that , in a competitive economy , markets clear on average over time . |
| 8 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 9 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 10 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Though the morale of the Party faithful had been temporarily resuscitated by Hitler 's rhetoric , it is clear that rhetoric alone was no longer sufficient to restore the confidence of the considerable sections of the population who had only superficially been won over in previous years by the magnitude of Hitler 's seemingly undeniable ‘ achievements ’ and who had suffered irreversible disillusionment since 1941–2 . |
| 13 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 14 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 15 | Once he had been won over by Meistersinger , with its triumphant portrayal of genius . |
| 16 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 17 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 18 | They would have preferred process control and development staff to have established the new processes , and would have preferred to recruit ‘ green labour ’ to the new machines so that ‘ bad habits ’ would not have been carried over from the old production process . |
| 19 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |
| 20 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 21 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 22 | To most people the term Gatt means very little but the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade which 108 countries have been wrestling over for the past six years is vital to fair trading throughout the world . |
| 23 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 24 | Although this has been argued over for fifty years , the size of this ancient catastrophe now seems incontrovertible . |
| 25 | By midday the Common had been turned over with meticulous care , the pools dragged and the frogmen sent down . |
| 26 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 27 | A few have been turned over to groups in Arkansas , Florida and Texas . |
| 28 | Although until April 1980 it was illegal for beneficiaries to sell land , researchers found evidence of land being sold and also of farms that had been turned over to sharecropping . |
| 29 | Much of the Colombian countryside has been turned over to the growing of soya and sorghum to feed chickens , thus depriving the Colombian peasants in the area of a food supply and contributing to the increased protein deficit in Colombia . |
| 30 | Then the mill acted as something of a milling centre , grinding corn and animal feed for surrounding parishes that lacked milling capabilities or , like Eastington , whose mills had long been turned over to the woollen trade . |