Example sentences of "[adv] handed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he merely handed the delivery order to G for return to A , the decision might have been otherwise , but by endorsing it to G he had gone far beyond what was necessary to secure the return of it to A. |
| 2 | Everything that has gone before is apprenticeship ( especially the thirteen thousand words or uncharacteristically slapdash prose inadvertently handed over to a person whose only chance of later fame lies in the possibility of aspiring to the status of a footnote in the scholarly biography of my life and work which someone , even now , is probably contemplating ) . |
| 3 | ‘ But they tend to be heavy handed with the equipment , which generally lasts only half its normal life here . ’ |
| 4 | He said he understood the village needed more housing but said the council had been ‘ heavy handed ’ . |
| 5 | The effect is exaggerated to indicate heavy handed disapproval . |
| 6 | Sources close to the now banned UDA said the families of RUC officers would suffer ‘ if heavy handed police tactics continued . ’ |
| 7 | They say that they do n't understand why the police had to be so heavy handed . |
| 8 | In the wake of the disturbances , union leaders alleged that one of the men arrested , the Scottish Militant leader and Glasgow councillor Tommy Sheridan , had been singled out by police for special treatment , and that the force had been heavy handed . |
| 9 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 10 | US intelligence assessments actually made in October 1990 , but only handed in two days before the Nov. 20 signing of the CFE treaty , had led US officials to assume that Soviet weapons had been withdrawn behind the Urals only shortly before the signature of the treaty . |
| 11 | He not only handed control of the new Secret Committee to grandees but in the same month , December 1856 , raised the qualification for promotion to the hereditary nobility from the achievement of rank five on the Table of Ranks to the achievement of rank four . |
| 12 | Service of this can only be made by a solicitor or Sheriff Officer who will either post it in a special court recorded delivery envelope , arrange for it to be personally handed to your debtor , or put through the front door of his house . |
| 13 | The Prince carelessly handed over the sealed paper , then sent one of his Dutch aides to enquire about the identity of the girl in the diaphanous gold dress . |
| 14 | ‘ I also remember that some of us were individually handed pigeons that we were meant to cradle in our hands and then throw into the air in the centre-circle . |
| 15 | Drivers report no guerrilla attacks , even though security north of the Salang Tunnel has been largely handed over to local militia units and the army withdrawn . |
| 16 | In anticipation of the move , Mr Whitbread has already handed effective control of the company to his chief executive Peter Jarvis and has been made non-executive chairman . |
| 17 | Certainly such people existed , but the man who allowed his mind and soul to be ruled by their existence had already handed them the better part of the argument . |
| 18 | Jill had already handed the gel-smeared paddles to Niall . |
| 19 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 20 | Richard ran his fingers over the expensive-looking business card his secretary had just handed to him : ‘ Simon Middleton — Financial Consultant ’ , it read . |
| 21 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 22 | The first time he sang the poem Bilbo had just handed over the Ring and was off to Rivendell ; the words accordingly express a sense of abdication , of having been left behind , along with determination to accept this and make a new life somewhere as yet unknown . |
| 23 | A roar went up from those near by and the corporal to whom Maggie had just handed the tea , muttered , ‘ Good for you . |
| 24 | Vice-Admiral Hawkins was standing by Carson 's chair as the general read and re-read the slip of paper Hawkins had just handed him . |
| 25 | Most days I saw damage , people with huge problems , emotional , social , financial — sometimes self-inflicted , mostly just handed down to them . |
| 26 | I , I was very angry abo , with what Prince Charles said erm about education , because his ideas are just handed down without any , ah , without us ha being informed in any way of where he 's getting his information from . |
| 27 | ‘ When , in answer to his assumption that there was to be an early wedding , I asked what was going round the grapevine now , he told me it was pure speculation on his part , stemming from the fact that you 'd just handed in your resignation . ’ |
| 28 | So you 've just handed five , you ca n't afford a bloody solarium as well ! |
| 29 | Thus , on the 18th June 1155 , Frederick Barbarossa was finally handed the sword , sceptre and golden crown that declared him fully Emperor , confirmed by military , political and spiritual authority . |
| 30 | This was especially true of the first Dalek serial which had many rewrites done to it before it was finally handed to Christopher Barry and Raymond Cusick . |