Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] give over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 2 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 3 | Most of the store windows were already given over to Christmas displays in silver and white , whilst around behind his hotel , down-and-outs were sleeping over hot air vents in the pavement . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He also remembered with a sense of humiliation and disgust that the pages of the Informer were now given over to articles on gay rights , the ‘ politics of feminism ’ and peer pressure towards glue-sniffing in the inner cities . |
| 6 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 7 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries land previously used for pasture was gradually given over to cultivation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was present at the birth of the Blessed Virgin , who was then given over to her care for twelve years , and at the Visitation and the birth of St John the Baptist and even at the birth of the Saviour , when she was allowed to provide bedding for the Virgin and swathing-clothes for the Child . |
| 12 | ‘ If there ever was anywhere given over to the normal and the expected , it 's a disco at Hadleigh . ’ |