Example sentences of "to hand over [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 2 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard aim in the medium term to hand over work from the Initiative to an FC/Open consortium . |
| 3 | They would not really want to hand over responsibility to a board of trustees , but would rather retain rights their rights within the museum . |
| 4 | In 1978 , he persuaded the Senate to accept a treaty agreeing to hand over control of the Panama Canal to the state of Panama by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Secondly , and perhaps most important , they have claimed that they do not want to hand over control of an income tax to what they perceive to be extremist Labour local authorities . |
| 7 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The United States announced on July 22 that it would not renew a bilateral textile agreement with Myanma in protest at human rights violations and the junta 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD . |
| 10 | The SLORC 's refusal to hand over power to the NLD in May 1990 was harshly criticized by many states , including the United States , Japan and the members of the European Communities . |