Example sentences of "[be] [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's that time of year when theatres everywhere are given over to the mayhem that is panto … when men are dames and the principal boys are girls . |
| 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 | Plenty of space has been given over to the navigating area . |
| 4 | St Joseph 's church at Crofton is retained , and elements of the two churches which have been replaced are carried over into the new one . |
| 5 | Further , some at least of the influential individuals in a community may operate outside the field of industrial relations : drawing on the work of Blauner ( 1960 ) , Bulmer suggests that the strong occupational communities characteristic of mining settlements occur because the social relations forged in the workplace are carried over into the arenas of non-work activity , creating overlapping primary group affiliations in which |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 8 | Each month 's results are picked over in the business 's board meeting , with a head-office manager present in a non-executive role . |
| 9 | When night fell we were appalled to find that the same principle had been carried over to the highway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Its twin ponds , of some 3.5 acres , have been built over by the ‘ bus station and local shops . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By 1863 , he too had gone and Kings Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins , an industry that was to become important for Painswick . |
| 17 | By the 1850s , Freames Mill had been turned over to the manufacture of pins by Perkins , Critchley and Marmont , who were there for around a decade and who later operated on a much larger scale at Wimberley Mills . |
| 18 | The common application programming interface that it and Hewlett-Packard Co worked on with Objectivity Inc , Ontos Inc , Object Design Inc and Versant Object Technology Inc , to allow developers to write programs that could utilise any object database — work that has been turned over to the Object Management Group — is a Spring technology ( UX No 362 ) . |
| 19 | Work already done on ANDF has been turned over to the European Commission 's Open Microprocessor Initiative — a £40m effort to develop next-generation microprocessor and software technology ( UX Nos 381 , 315 ) . |
| 20 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 21 | The whole of the floor of one of the big sheds had been turned over to the making of the signs . |
| 22 | It is the characteristic of the kind of Governments that have just been turned over beyond the line , in Europe . |
| 23 | If , for instance , you are pushed over in the playground , would it be all right to push the aggressor in return ? |
| 24 | So what we 're picking over on the plate now is not so much John Major , but the treatment of the press |
| 25 | Then they 're going over to the Palace to see the Bishop , ’ said Julia chattily . |
| 26 | Now we 're going over to the tuck shop Go on Natalie sing something . |
| 27 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 28 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 29 | However , that right ceases when the second copy of the consignment note has been handed over to the original designated consignee . |
| 30 | French referee Daniel Salles complained in an interview after the tournament that the top refereeing assignments in Catania had been handed over to the Home Unions referees , implying some kind of conspiracy — all of which is an absolute nonsense . |