Example sentences of "were [vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the base of the wall could not be penetrated , movable towers were built which could be wheeled up to attack the wall from without ; in the longer sieges , such as that of Antioch during the First Crusade , fixed towers were erected over against the walls to harry the defenders and enable a watch to be kept on them . |
| 2 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 3 | At their 1988 conference , four keynote sessions were given over to what was entitled ‘ Church Planting — Our Future Hope ’ , which just about sums it up . |
| 4 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 5 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 6 | Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games , set walks , leisure periods and detention . |
| 7 | The political embarrassment that such admissions created for the Bolsheviks were smoothed over by presenting the necessity for NEP in terms of an analogy with the Brest Litovsk peace treaty with Germany in 1918 , that is , as being a breathing space . |
| 8 | As it does , old divisions that were welded over by the fight against communism will reappear . |
| 9 | There was scarcely any time for a cigarette before we were hustled over to the equipment store . |
| 10 | These features profoundly affected the shape and priorities of the new scheme , although not all were carried over into it . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , the parents of the 1920s were the children of the 1900s and the inhibitions of that more rigid decade were carried over into their parenthood . |
| 12 | Preindustrial aristocratic attitudes were carried over into an industrial age . |
| 13 | Greece , Spain , Portugal and Ireland were won over at a meeting of Environment Ministers by promises that the tax will be levied only on energy use or carbon dioxide emissions above a threshold value linked to the community average . |
| 14 | The judges said they were won over by the sheer fun of its output . |
| 15 | Ponds were frozen over in the London parks and a thin but icy fog concealed the raw branches of the winter trees . |
| 16 | These informants were turned over to British intelligence in 1981 under an operation code-named Ward . |
| 17 | Although he produced valuable results at St Andrews , his major contributions did not come until later , as half the time he spent there coincided with the First World War , when the laboratories were turned over to the production of pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals . |
| 18 | While the threat of wholesale destruction failed to materialize , the cathedrals were turned over to a variety of secular uses . |
| 19 | Vast territories were turned over to growing cash crops and extracting minerals for Western interests . |
| 20 | The Arundel trainer had felt an April fool when his first two runners of the campaign — including an odds-on shot — were turned over at Brighton on Thursday . |
| 21 | RIBA Companies Ltd , was then set up to oversee the management of these companies , the shares in which were transferred over by the RIBA . |
| 22 | You know , the freeholds were made over by deeds of gift by way of conveyance , and the — ’ |
| 23 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 24 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 25 | The six trains for which the LMS were responsible were handed over to the Military authorities in less than three weeks . |
| 26 | The doors , after being fitted in this gauge , were handed over to the coach finishers , who fitted the casing boards , either of walnut or mahogany . |
| 27 | Mr. Mason remained with the Tramway companies , but the three electric-lighting offices and show rooms were handed over to the new authority . |
| 28 | Local radio stations in the state capitals were handed over to these states in 1978 , but the same policy did not apply to television . |
| 29 | The project report and maps dealing with the regional geology and gold potential of part of the western flank of the Cordillera Occidental of south-west Colombia were handed over to the counterpart organisation . |
| 30 | The building and the organisation were handed over to the new body of Guardians of the Bedford Poor Law Union , on November 7th 1836 . |