Example sentences of "[noun] be given over to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinner parties were given over to discussion of the choices before customers . |
| 2 | And so its lower acres were given over to recreational pursuits . |
| 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 | Cyber-punk bubblegum ( ‘ Sound And Vision ’ , ‘ Speed Of Life ’ ) vies with biker torch songs ( ‘ What In The World ’ , ‘ Be My Wife ’ ) and , in a curious , brave and cocky gambit , a whole side is given over to Bowie 's new love , his opaque and enigmatic instrumental collaboration with Eno . |
| 5 | Vast areas are given over to car parks and souvenir shops . |
| 6 | And as more and more of these areas were given over to cultivation , crop-raiding increased and so did the toll of human lives . |
| 7 | The first issue is given over to Edmont Couchot , research director and professor in the Department of Arts and Image Technologies at the University of Paris 8 . |
| 8 | The ground floor of the gallery is given over to Gothic and ‘ International Gothic ’ art . |
| 9 | The west wall of the gallery is given over to a work 17ft high and over 20ft long entitled Touch the Earth Again , and the ecological sentiment implied by this title is crucial to Setch 's work . |
| 10 | The evening is given over to mission experience through film or slides , then night prayer followed by a social evening . |
| 11 | Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture . |
| 12 | The tail of the electric eel contains 10 000 tiny electric organs , arranged in 70 columns , and over half of the fish is given over to electricity production . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Or should development be given over to a broad church of interest groups and realised by a catholic mix of architects working in a number of complementary styles ? |
| 15 | Parking was horrendously difficult , the off-street parking being given over to the Volvos , Rovers and BMWs of the conference-goers . |
| 16 | The rest was given over to a bowling green and a large expanse of lawn ; the potential for change was enormous . |
| 17 | The morning of the celebrations dawned and the whole day was given over to ironing best robes , practising on broomsticks and chanting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The foreground is given over to common land , undulating , uncultivated , with clumps of fern and whin , gorse and bramble . |
| 20 | The morning is given over to the religious aspect of celebrations , the afternoon belongs to the children , while the brass bands come into their own in the evening . |
| 21 | About midway through the film , a long sequence is given over to Barbara Harris , auditioning for a show by singing , intentionally weakly , ‘ Painting The Clouds With Sunshine ’ . |
| 22 | One of its rooms was given over to chess-playing , a pastime enjoyed by Rosengarten and Leonard . |
| 23 | Large portions of the Education Bill are given over to procedures for the creation and financing of grant maintained schools , a cornerstone of government policy . |
| 24 | Despite the fact that most space is given over to circulation and parking , with special provision made for particular needs ( Figure 6.45 ) , the area is still overwhelmed by the sheer volume of parked vehicles . |
| 25 | Some space was given over to discussion of these questions in chapters 2 and 3 . |
| 26 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 27 | Afternoons were given over to village leave , organised games , set walks , leisure periods and detention . |
| 28 | An inordinate proportion of this slender book is given over to digression and quotation ( including a graceful , tongue-in-cheek , tribute to The Economist ) . |
| 29 | Every Thursday is given over to a drop-in day , which is open to the previous year 's group to come back or to any girl on home-teaching , and sometimes girls from three or four years back may also drop in for a chat or advice . |
| 30 | The greater part is given over to the well in which the ice was deposited . |