Example sentences of "[be] largely [vb pp] over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 2 | Drivers report no guerrilla attacks , even though security north of the Salang Tunnel has been largely handed over to local militia units and the army withdrawn . |
| 3 | If the urban élites were largely won over to Christianity by about 430 , the masses had drifted into it even sooner . |
| 4 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 5 | The interior of the villa is largely taken over by the Modern Art Museum which is spread through 35 rooms that are still marvels of late eighteenth-century elegance , with luxurious decoration in plaster , parquet floors and chandeliers . |
| 6 | 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 . |