Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] handed over " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been handed over amicably in November 1957 , as work had already been started on building a staging airfield on the Indian Ocean island of Gan , just south of Ceylon . |
| 2 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 3 | French referee Daniel Salles complained in an interview after the tournament that the top refereeing assignments in Catania had been handed over to the Home Unions referees , implying some kind of conspiracy — all of which is an absolute nonsense . |
| 4 | All this initial provision had been handed over to the Department . |
| 5 | And as the prince played a round with bubbly brunette Gillian Petrie , it was revealed that the tape , containing a veiled threat that the Duchess would flee to her mother in Argentina , had been handed over to the Queen 's lawyers . |
| 6 | The author was born in Kronstadt , part of the ethnic German enclave in Transylvania — a region which was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the beginning of the century but which had been handed over to Romania after World War I. Faced by the prospect of conscription into the Romanian army in World War II , the author volunteered for the Waffen-SS . |
| 7 | Plainly the clause was not on this occasion incorporated by virtue of the sold note , which had been handed over only after the bargain was struck . |
| 8 | They had been handed over counters , crumpled , made greasy by hundreds of sweaty hands . |
| 9 | By October 1989 , 20 per cent of Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia had been withdrawn , and military equipment , facilities and the base at Ulaan Orhon had been handed over to the Mongolian government [ for start of withdrawal in May 1989 see p. 36657 ] . |
| 10 | The release of prisoners of war by Iraq was officially described as completed when a total of 45 prisoners-of-war had been handed over to the International Committee of the Red Cross ( 10 on March 4 , comprising six US personnel , three British and one Italian , and 35 on March 5 , comprising 15 US , nine British , nine Saudis , an Italian and a Kuwaiti , who were flown from Baghdad to Riyadh on March 6 ) . |
| 11 | The statement said that Col. Robertson had died when his plane crashed over North Vietnam in 1966 and that his remains had been handed over to the USA in April 1990 . |
| 12 | Although large quantities had been handed over by July 8 , the government maintained that items remained in the camps . |
| 13 | About three tonnes of gold deposited in Sweden had been handed over to the Soviet Union when it recognised the Soviet annexation of the Baltic states in 1941 . |
| 14 | It was now over forty hours since the money had been handed over , but there had been no word of Ruggiero Miletti 's release . |
| 15 | Later that evening , when the Labrador had been handed over to its rejoicing owners , Sophie went into Joanna 's room and found her looking pensive . |
| 16 | Payments of more than £2,000 had been handed over at ‘ safe houses ’ where the drugs were kept , the court heard . |
| 17 | What documents he had were handed over to Peckle . ’ |