Example sentences of "handed [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 2 | However , the Pope 's account of the role of the papacy went a great deal farther than that : Christian unity , he said , must be founded on the faith in Christ that was handed on by the Apostles ; what this faith is must be determined by the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 3 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 4 | For over 250 years after Sekigahara the title of shogun was handed down through the males of the Tokugawa family . |
| 5 | But lap-steel is a relative newcomer to the island 's culture when compared with the tradition of slack key guitar , a beautiful acoustic fingerpicking style based around dropped , or ‘ slack ’ open tunings which have been handed down through the generations . |
| 6 | Their sunny main bedroom is the perfect home for older pieces of furniture , most of which have been handed down through the generations — Mary Jane 's mother made the tapestry fireguard and her great-grandmother made the beautiful bedspread |
| 7 | The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide . |
| 8 | Because modesty in behaviour is such a high priority , these laws of Taharat HaMishpachah have not been publicized , but have been handed down throughout the generations . |
| 9 | Two days earlier , acting on her own behalf and that of her children , the widow of Jean-Baptiste Lully , Madeleine Lambert , sold all the remaining books of Lully 's music to Jean Baptiste Christophe Ballard in accordance with a sentence handed down by the courts of Châtelet de Paris the previous day ( 16 July 1714 ) . |
| 10 | Meanwhile work on full employment policy had been handed down by the politicians to a committee of officials . |
| 11 | During 1992 , 150 items of found property were handed in to the Police at Dounreay . |
| 12 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 13 | The documents were handed over on the grounds that this could be compelled under section 2(2) of the Criminal Justice Act 1987 . |
| 14 | Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy . |
| 15 | His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia . |
| 16 | In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract . |
| 17 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 18 | The State Department thus confirmed Macmillan 's recommendation that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviets in accordance with the Yalta agreement . |
| 19 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 20 | " CAO expressed disappointment that we did not seem to agree with him on this point , but added that he was faced with a grave administrative problem with hundreds of thousands of German PoWs on his hands and could not bother at this time about who might or who might not be handed over to the Russians or Partisans to be shot . " |
| 21 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 22 | In another statement , Maj J Laugham DSO of 45 Recce Regiment described how : " On 15 May the main body of the Croats to be handed over to the YUGOSLAVS were encamped to the south of the main road leading from the AUSTRIAN frontier to BLEIBURG … |
| 23 | In Roslavl' during March and April it was frequently noted that the public believed that ecclesiastical gold was to be handed over to the Jews . |
| 24 | It must be handed over to the embalmers then , or it will be too late . ’ |
| 25 | Magwitch 's thick wallet was handed over to the police , and Wemmick was quite annoyed with me about it . |
| 26 | The cordon , supported by joint mobile patrols from the RUC and other elements of the battalion , remained in place until the whole area was declared clear at 1600 hours on 30 June , and responsibility for operations in the area was handed back to the police . |
| 27 | Partly through Agitprop and partly through the Black Dwarf group a free-sheet was produced to be handed out on the dockers ' march . |