Example sentences of "be [verb] over [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeltsin announced at the meeting in Minsk on Dec. 30 that the first channel of Central Television would be given over to the Commonwealth , the second would be Russian , the third would be Moscow Television and the fourth would be an educational channel . |
| 2 | The Government needed control over the media , or to have that control in reserve , not only in order to prevent such support of minority interests but also to ensure that the vitally important class of entrepreneurs and middle-level professional executive people — whose loyalty was vital to the success of any government policy — should be won over to the cause or , at the very least , not be encouraged to oppose government policies . |
| 3 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 4 | It is precisely among the eighteen to twenty-five years old electorate , which urgently needs to be won over to the Socialist cause before next year 's parliamentary elections , that Lang is the most popular Minister of the decade . |
| 5 | Preston 's playing is so vivacious , his enthusiasm for the music so stimulating and his obvious enjoyment in playing this marvellous instrument ( which the DG engineers have recorded with something well into the demonstration category ) so infectious that I doubt even the most dyed-in-the-wool hater of organ music could fail to be won over to the cause . |
| 6 | Such attitudes were far removed from the world of the fictional Sir Joseph Bowlem in Dickens 's Chimes short story who boasted ‘ I allow nothing to be carried over into the New Year ; every description of account is settled in this house at the close of the old one ’ , and the real life employee of Manders the Wolverhampton paintmakers who scribbled on the flyleaf of a 1896 catalogue : |
| 7 | This policy was to be carried over into the post-independence period . |
| 8 | Now , thanks in no small measure to his own contribution to the Hampshire cause , he has one ; and the only disappointment is that the climax of the match was watched by only about 8000 people , as the weather caused it to be carried over into the second day . |
| 9 | The interest in the one form of expression can be carried over into the other . |
| 10 | an over-ambitious agenda which takes too long to complete or has to be carried over to the next meeting . |
| 11 | The Government confirmed that the Bill would not proceed — it fell with the dissolution of Parliament on 16 March ( unfinished legislation can not be carried over to the new parliament ) . |
| 12 | He was suspended for five matches by UEFA after his verbal attack on Swedish referee Rune Larrson during the European Cup-Winners ' Cup game against Spartak Moscow last October — four games of which will be carried over to the next Liverpool campaign in Europe following their elimination last October by Spartak Moscow . |
| 13 | That the number of town dwellers grew and that such a large proportion of output could be made over to the ruling class without permanent and chronic nationwide famine or substantial evidence of huge tax arrears suggest that peasants continued to produce well above subsistence level . |
| 14 | You may keep travel and subsistence expenses paid during jury service , but as your normal salary will have been paid in your absence , any payments received for loss of earnings must be made over to the Company . |
| 15 | Bill Davies , who provided the cross , can be seen over on the right wing . |
| 16 | She would rather be slobbered over by the randiest male than be touched in that way by her own sex . |
| 17 | The row , which inflamed doctors , was immortalised by the pictures of ‘ battling Granny Esther Brookstone ’ , the leader of Charing Cross Hospital 's branch of the National Union of Public Employees , demanding that the new hospital 's ‘ penthouse floor ’ of private beds be turned over to the NHS . |
| 18 | ANDY and Fergie 's Dallas-style mansion — dubbed ‘ Southyork ’ by the locals — is now a £1,000-a-day ghost house and should be turned over to the homeless , it was claimed yesterday . |
| 19 | CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or might not be turned over to the Russians and Partisans to be shot . |
| 20 | If the idea seems viable , it will be turned over to the Research and Development ( R&D ) section , where any necessary research , design and development work can be carried out . |
| 21 | One half has then to be turned over before the two halves are trimmed and married up . |
| 22 | Justice Desmond Windle ordered at Dublin District Court that Anthony Gerard Sloan , 35 , from Summerville Drive , Belfast , who is serving 20 years for possession of an M-60 machine gun , be handed over to the RUC at the Co Louth border . |
| 23 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 24 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 25 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 26 | He agreed to summon the Scottish parliament , that it should consent to Mary 's marriage with the dauphin Francis and to her departure for France , and that Scottish castles should be handed over to the French — as indeed Dunbar and Blackness were . |
| 27 | On 14 August 1903 , the school teachers asked to keep their travelling privileges after the schools were to be handed over to the Local Education Authority . |
| 28 | Windmill Fields and the Lymington Bottom triangle had been definitely listed as open space , and once landscaping work has been done both these areas will be handed over to the parish council for maintenance . |
| 29 | In the Kandyan Kingdom a man convicted for assault could be handed over to the complainant to be beaten , and thefts were often resolved by the return of the stolen property , plus further compensation . |
| 30 | The ‘ appointed day ’ when all tramways had to be handed over to the Board , was 1 July 1933 . |