Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] [noun] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four Hartlepool organisations received a cash boost yesterday when the Mayor , Coun Trevor Lloyd , handed over cheques from the civic lottery fund . |
| 2 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 3 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 4 | The end-of-term atmosphere was maintained when Mrs Kinnock dressed up as an air hostess and handed out sweets to the accompanying press corps . |
| 5 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |
| 6 | Lending Services continued to play an active part in the work of the Library and Information Co-operation Council ( LINC ) and the Circle of Officers of National and Regional Library Systems ( CONARLS ) , handing over chairmanship of the latter body to the Irish Central Library for Students at the AGM held in Edinburgh in May . |
| 7 | ‘ He wrote a story , with pictures to back it up , about an American general supposedly handing over documents to a beautiful KGB agent on Hamburg 's Kennedy Bridge . |
| 8 | If height permits , I then like to make a series of stalls using large amounts of rudder and handing over control for a quick recovery , moving the stick forward and using normal stick and rudder together to bring the wings level . |
| 9 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |
| 10 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , evidence has emerged that the West Berlin branch of Chancellor Helmut Kohl 's Christian Democratic Union party ( CDU ) has been active in stirring pro-unity emotions in Leipzig , supplying demonstrators with West German flags and handing out stickers in the black , red , and gold of the two German flags with the slogan : ‘ We are one people . ’ |
| 12 | Sir Bryan was handing out copies of a glossy A5-size booklet . |
| 13 | He spent the day handing out details of the new Archers Addicts Fan Club for which , needless to say , there was a fast trade . |
| 14 | However , it is sprightly compared with the pronouncement on ‘ automatic honours for public servants ’ by Richard Shepherd , the Conservative MP : ‘ It almost has the quality of handing out lollipops to the general satisfaction of the recipients . ’ |
| 15 | She had never seen Ianthe handing out books to the ill-mannered grubby students and cranks of all ages who frequented the library of political and sociological books where she worked . |
| 16 | Hrawi underlined his determination to press ahead with the security plan on Oct. 24 when he formally ordered all militias to leave Beirut and to hand over positions to the Lebanese Army . |
| 17 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 18 | Mr Skinner insisted : ‘ There will always be a need for socialism , whether in Britain or anywhere else , so long as there are millionaires living in the lap of luxury and other people living in cardboard boxes , so long as we have a system which allows the poor countries of the world to hand over $50m to the rich . ’ |
| 19 | THIS WEEK Timothy Raison , minister for Overseas Development , will read a report from his civil servants advising him to hand over control of an international conservation treaty to the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 21 | On March 7 , the Group of 12 ( a newly formed coalition of the country 's main opposition parties , ranging from communists to conservatives ) issued a joint statement calling upon the populace to rise up against Avril and force him to hand over power to an interim civilian administration as the first step towards the holding of free elections . |