Example sentences of "[be] [adv] given over [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His whole soul had been so given over to dreams of leaving Loxford recently that he was startled to think his father might share them . |
| 2 | The last years of his life seem to have been largely given over to this task . |
| 3 | The full-time farms surveyed were mostly given over to grass and were on the higher ground . |
| 4 | The Cult of Pleasure is revealed as being secretly given over to the worship of Slaanesh . |
| 5 | Lucie 's thoughts were entirely given over to the pain in his chest ; he was overrun with pain . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A distinction must also be made between agroforestry and plantation forestry ; the former involves the integration of silviculture with agricultural systems while the latter is entirely given over to timber production . |
| 10 | The area is intersected only by minor ‘ B ’ -class roads and country lanes , contains no large towns and is largely given over to agriculture . |
| 11 | I think of all those using this channel : – people who gave generously , of their good money ; people who gave their physical strength ; people who gave limitless time ( even their annual leave from work ) ; people who managed a little time after work ; people who baked ; people who prayed ; the member who supplied the entire plant stall ; people who counted ; the little girl who devised an amusing quiz as her ‘ channel ’ ; people who served , and often withstood the cold winds of George Street ; people who used their artistic talents for communication ; people who lovingly restored the Church afterwards ; our engineer , who invented a ‘ chair-lift ’ for us , and then , literally , put his shoulder to the wheel – and the bright spark who had fired him with the notion ; and finally and uniquely , the couple in Trinity , part of whose house is always given over to storing books so that this channel may be kept open . |
| 12 | In order to accommodate this the basement is now given over to office space while the ground floor continues to carry monographs and catalogues of Western art . |
| 13 | ‘ The remaining extent of the Works area along the northern portion is mainly given over to timber stores and small departments . |
| 14 | And the modern art in my cellar areas is chiefly given over to the discovery of fresh talent and new Bristol artists , some of whom still attempt the famous perspectives of the Gorge and the Bridge . |
| 15 | The film is primarily given over to demonstrating and coaching tail and bow squirts , screw ups , double enders , smashers , cartwheels , splats , swipes , mystery moves , blasting and wave moves , mostly on the Holme Pierrepont slalom course . |
| 16 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role X/Open will play . |
| 17 | Much of the meeting was apparently given over to the specific role that X/Open will play . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries land previously used for pasture was gradually given over to cultivation . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I told you not to ask , ’ he said when the line was grudgingly given over for another fifty seconds . |
| 23 | ‘ If there ever was anywhere given over to the normal and the expected , it 's a disco at Hadleigh . ’ |