Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 11 | 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 . |