Example sentences of "to hand over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 2 | Well now , to hand over crisis and clarity to the enemy is not to revile the hunger , not to mock the passion itself ; the handing over resolves an otherwise intractable problem of art ; it is not a disavowal ; and in any case ‘ enemy ’ is only my image . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Meanwhile the BBC have refused to hand over film of alleged rioting at an acid house party without a court order . |
| 5 | We have met the terms of the loan , ’ Mr Cross said , answering widespread speculation that Mr Bond , whose commercial empire is troubled , had been forced to hand over the painting to Sotheby 's for resale . |
| 6 | IN THE dying hours of Tuesday 's Panamanian coup , rebel officers refused a ‘ face-to-face ’ request from a US military officer to hand over General Noriega for trial in America , the US Defence Secretary , Dick Cheney , said yesterday . |
| 7 | He said Washington decided against helping the rebels because they refused to hand over General Noriega and because the US doubted their democratic good faith . |
| 8 | He is also writing to John McGregor , the Education Secretary , urging him not only to abandon the idea of additional CTCs but to hand over those in the pipeline to local authorities . |
| 9 | According to a shopkeeper , they went through the market forcing merchants at gunpoint to hand over money and gold . |
| 10 | This evidence fits statements from Dennis Johnson , who had arranged to meet the suspected bombers around midday at 17 Campbell Road to hand over the keys to the holiday home . |
| 11 | They clear the remaining forest by fire , opening it up for their own agriculture , or to hand over to cattle ranchers . |
| 12 | She and her detective rushed over to the photographer and she pleaded with him to hand over his film , and tell nothing of what he had seen . |
| 13 | It made no sense for the British army to hand over Yugoslav royalists to Tito 's communists , he said . |
| 14 | Blackpool , who offered just £2,000 against City 's valuation of £70,000 , will also have to hand over 25 per cent of any profit on a subsequent transfer . |
| 15 | Earlier yesterday , the Court of Appeal refused an application by Mr Goodwin 's employers , the publishers Morgan Grampian , to revoke the order forcing him to hand over notes containing confidential financial information concerning a company , which can not be named for legal reasons . |
| 16 | The ministry said yesterday that it has had to hand over the file to the European Commission , which is investigating the Rover deal . |
| 17 | Two weeks ago , the island was paralysed by a strike of government workers , who accused Blaize of breaking his promise to hand over more than £2 million in back pay . |
| 18 | He stressed that the US would abide by the Canal Treaty timetable to hand over the canal to Panamanian rule . |
| 19 | And who could have guessed that , with said gnashers playing him up , he would have to hand over one of his duties — and that a Labour MP would be called in from the subs ' bench . |
| 20 | In the Court of Session in Edinburgh yesterday , Lord Morrison refused to order the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service to hand over the name of a donor whose blood allegedly infected a 26-year-old man with HIV . |
| 21 | Financial and legal pressures have forced councils to hand over debt recovery to private agents known as sheriffs ' officers — Scottish bailiffs — in a surprisingly clinical fashion . |
| 22 | THE discovery of two kidnapped and executed American civilians sharply increased the tension of the siege of the Papal mission in Panama yesterday , as the Vatican refused to hand over General Manuel Noriega to ‘ the occupying power ’ of the US . |
| 23 | They would then be required to hand over the proceeds , without any strings attached , to a fund in which , under the Tolba plan , ‘ all countries would have an equal say in resource allocation . ’ |
| 24 | Turkey ( until 1983 ) and Brazil ( until 1985 ) were ruled by relatively law-abiding military juntas which , in the end , decided to hand over power . |
| 25 | Under the Panama canal treaties , the United States is to hand over all military facilities to Panama in a gradual ‘ draw-down ’ before the end of 1999 . |
| 26 | She has written to President Bush offering to hand over part of her late husband 's fortune for distribution to the poor in the Philippines . |
| 27 | AEG has had to hand over to Deutsche Aerospace its lucrative aerospace and defence division , its second-largest unit . |
| 28 | They have contributed only 39% of what the central government requires them to hand over in the first three months of the year . |
| 29 | He was ready to hand over African colonies to appease Hitler . |
| 30 | But with record pre-tax earnings of $492m in 1990 , Salomon 's Phibro Energy subsidiary was able to hand over $20m to its boss , Andrew Hall . |