Example sentences of "[noun pl] handed [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 8m voters were eligible to choose members of the national assembly , a parliamentary body whose main job is to rubber-stamp decisions handed down by the ten-man Revolutionary Command Council through which Mr Hussein governs . |
| 2 | As everyone left , clutching the fountain pens and the sugar-pastry city crests handed out by an exuberant San Francisco mayor , so the world 's thoughts were principally , and thankfully , concentrated on the reality that one war was now definitely over while another — that raging across the Ocean in Korea — was beginning to look as though it might end soon . |
| 3 | It took me some time — weeks — to discover that he was poor and wore clothes handed on by a negligently competent brother-in-law in the soft drinks business . |
| 4 | The Guardian , The Observer and The Sunday Times are seeking a ruling that temporary injunctions handed down by a 3-2 House of Lords majority in 1987 , banning publication of details from the memoirs of an ex-MI5 officer , Peter Wright , were unnecessary prior restraints on free speech that breached Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 5 | Our judges treat the techniques they use for interpreting statutes and measuring precedents — even those no one challenges — not simply as tools handed down by the traditions of their ancient craft but as principles they assume can be justified in some deeper political theory , and when they come to doubt this , for what-ever reason , they construct theories that seem to them better . |
| 6 | If the police are to continue to exercise control over an increasingly pluralist society , which is better educated and less willing simply to accept any version of events handed out by the powerful , then it seems essential they should avoid scrutiny yet suggest they are totally accountable to the democratic ideal . |