Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] over [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the programme on Saturday , November 28th has been given over to residents of several old people 's homes and approximately £500 worth of tickets for the 2.00pm service have been donated to the residents . |
| 2 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 3 | You know Connells ' all been took over by Gala ? |
| 4 | Once he had been won over by Meistersinger , with its triumphant portrayal of genius . |
| 5 | Most of it has n't been turned over for years . |
| 6 | This said that Soviet historians had recently discovered documents revealing that in April-May 1940 all but 394 inmates of the three camps had been turned over to NKVD administrations in Smolensk , Voroshilovgrad and Kalinin , and had been " never again mentioned in NKVD statistical accounts " . |
| 7 | This is because the length of the production cycle and the rhythm of the work in agriculture continue to be governed by the seasons of the year except in those branches of the industry which have been turned over to factory farming methods . |
| 8 | Like so many others , by this time Millend had left the cloth trade and , in this case , been turned over to corn and saw milling . |
| 9 | A few have been turned over to groups in Arkansas , Florida and Texas . |
| 10 | Nearly all of that has been turned over to animal feed . |
| 11 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 12 | It has been turned over to SunSoft 's Distributed Object Council , a group of unidentified object developers and major end users who meet frequently with the company to discuss product specifications and plans , for feedback . |
| 13 | been turned over by warlords , they want to get their own back . |
| 14 | Kildare , which has been handed over to Paul by the Irish Government for his famous Hole in the Wall Gang charity . |
| 15 | Polisario claimed that military information had also been handed over to Morocco , and in a written submission to the UN on Dec. 11 alleged Moroccan violations of the ceasefire ( in force since Sept. 6 ) . |
| 16 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 17 | Her eyes scanned the first page quickly , taking in the expected account of how Ellen had looked after Oreste as her own , but when she came to the reasons why he had not been handed over to Gigia , Wilson slowed down and even repeated the words to herself . |
| 18 | In the case of a registered title , of course , you would undertake to forward LR form 53 , the charge certificate having commonly been handed over on completion . |
| 19 | Although large quantities had been handed over by July 8 , the government maintained that items remained in the camps . |
| 20 | By now , thanks to the Luxembourg Compromise , France was less fearful of the European Commission ; the completion of the customs union led to hopes among the Six of further developments in the EEC ; and there was still the need to settle the long-term finance of CAP , a question which had been papered over after de Gaulle 's ‘ empty chair ’ policy . |
| 21 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 22 | Francis Mangon , an inventive lighting designer , had been brought over from America to be in charge of productions for the Plaza company . |
| 23 | The popular ‘ explanation ’ for these pitiful remains is that the hedgehogs have been run over by motor cars . |
| 24 | Now she 's been thrown over by Leinster she 's the Marchioness of Rossmayne again . |
| 25 | The rebel officers had been passed over for promotion as General Noriega strengthened his control of the military 's two key policy-making bodies , the General Staff and the Strategic Military Council . |
| 26 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 27 | The argument was not without precedent : in 1316 Louis X 's daughter Jeanne had been passed over in favour of his brother Philip V , and Philip 's own daughters had been excluded in 1321 in favour of his youngest brother , Charles IV . |
| 28 | When his father raised the question of who should inherit the estate after him , and whether he should choose ‘ heirs general ’ , that is to say , include females in the vexed question — in an earlier generation , four sisters had been passed over in favour of a Boswell nephew — Boswell consulted Johnson repeatedly , before the matter was resolved to Boswell 's general satisfaction . |
| 29 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 30 | Medicine and money from the public health budget are being unofficially transferred to the military health services and at least five regional hospitals and a number of smaller health centres have been taken over for use by the military . |