Sentence examples for which was given over to from inspiring English sources

The kids in the audience loved it but some grew restive in the second half of the concert, which was given over to the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Andrea Quinn.

The complex in Penley had been part of a US military hospital which was given over to Polish patients in 1946.

(Recall bravura interrogation scenes in such exemplary television dramas as "Homicide: Life on the Street," an entire episode of which was given over to a protracted interrogation; "NYPD Blue"; and "The Wire").

The next time I put on the headset was in Marina del Rey, California, at an Institute for Creative Technologies lab space called FlatWorld, most of which was given over to life-size "mixed reality" worlds that could be negotiated without special equipment.

The two forward ones, which were given over to passengers, contained about eighty bunks apiece.

Unlike the edges of most bodies of water, which are given over to restaurants and marinas, this shore was desolate and unbuilt.

The plot is taken over by news events that are by now familiar, and Poitras almost falls out of the story, which is given over to men with more aggressive views and less sensibility.

The country also boasts game-rich grasslands and a semi-arid Central Plateau, large tracts of which are given over to livestock farming.

The district is divided by the main thoroughfare of Long Acre, north of which is given over to independent shops centred on Neal's Yard and Seven Dials, while the south contains the central square with its street performers and most of the elegant buildings, theatres and entertainment facilities, including the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the London Transport Museum.

There is a small supermarket next door, over half of which is given over to alcohol.

It is this interest that was crystallized by Tylor in Primitive Culture, the greater part of which is given over to the description of exotic religious behaviour.