Example sentences of "handed over [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two thousand librates of prime tillable land , that is one hundred thousand acres , convenient to the Border , of the Plantagenet 's choice , were to be handed over as free gift , with all the folk thereupon . |
| 2 | In the event , only Christen was handed over to Syrian officers in West Beirut on Aug. 8 . |
| 3 | Brian Keenan , a teacher with dual British-Irish nationality , was handed over to Syrian Army officers in West Beirut on Aug. 24 and was immediately driven to Damascus to be freed and flown home . |
| 4 | Under the terms of the truce and the modifications agreed to it on 27 June , the siege of Quimperlé would be lifted , Duke John would withdraw his army from Brittany , Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte would be handed over to papal mediators who would deliver it to the King of France when the truce expired , and the English would receive 40,000 francs in compensation . |
| 5 | Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise . |
| 6 | The predicament of peasants on state lands which had not been handed over to private landowners was marginally easier , but did not differ fundamentally from that of the private serfs . |
| 7 | The Navy 's own dockyard at Devonport , Plymouth , was handed over to private management in 1987 , with 3,300 of the 11,500 jobs to go by 1990 ( the Guardian , June 11 1988 ) and , again , little preparation of land for replacement industries . |
| 8 | Much of the responsibility for dealing with it is likely to be handed over to private contractors , with the Energy Authority having a supervisory role . |
| 9 | That said : ‘ All Russians to be handed over to Soviet forces and all surrendered Yugoslav nationals serving in German forces to be handed over to Yugoslav forces . ’ |
| 10 | All Russians should be handed over to Soviet forces at agreed point of contact established by you under local arrangement with Marshal Tolbuknin 's HQ . |
| 11 | The chief purpose of this repatriation agreement was to ensure that " all Soviet citizens liberated by forces under British command and all British subjects liberated by forces under Soviet command " should " without delay after their tiberation " be separated and properly maintained " until they have been handed over to Soviet or British authority , as the case may be " . |
| 12 | AFHQ had given instructions to Eighth Army ( by the " Robertson order " of 14 May ) that " all Russians " were to be handed over to Soviet forces . |
| 13 | Obviously there was a complete contradiction between the two policies , and at 2135 hrs that evening Eighth Army signalled AFHQ IKP 213 ] for an urgent ruling on which policy was to be followed : " Reference your FX-75383 dated 14 [ the " Robertson order " of 14 May ] stating all Russians to be handed over to Soviet forces and SHAEF 399 FWD stating Cossacks accepted by 12 Army Group . |
| 14 | The plan outlined the procedures whereby all the Cossacks defined by the Definition Order of 21 May , including Germans , should be handed over to Soviet forces . |
| 15 | Those responsibilities not taken over by the newly privatised gas , petroleum and electricity industries are expected to be handed over to existing departments such as Trade and Industry and Environment . |
| 16 | American political pressure on Churchill in London , and diplomatic help to Nasser in Cairo , resulted in the highly unsatisfactory Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of October 1954 , whereby the military base installations in the Canal Zone were to be handed over to British civilian contractors , and all uniformed personnel were to leave Egypt by the end of March 1956 . |
| 17 | In a speech on Tehran radio on June 5 Hojatolislam Seyed Ali Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , repeated the demand that the British novelist Salman Rushdie should be handed over to British Moslems " so that he can be killed for blasphemy against Islam " , as first decreed by fatwa issued in February 1989 by the late Ayatollah Khomeini after publication of Rushdie 's novel The Satanic Verses [ see pp. 36450-51 ] . |
| 18 | Drivers report no guerrilla attacks , even though security north of the Salang Tunnel has been largely handed over to local militia units and the army withdrawn . |
| 19 | He was handed over to local army units and then driven around in an armoured car for three days to prevent Securitate units discovering his whereabouts . |
| 20 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 21 | Will the Minister assure the House that empty houses will be handed over to local councils or housing associations for rent either to redundant service men or to others ? |
| 22 | Flats " used for conspiracy [ by the StB ] " were to be handed over to local government bodies . |
| 23 | That said : ‘ All Russians to be handed over to Soviet forces and all surrendered Yugoslav nationals serving in German forces to be handed over to Yugoslav forces . ’ |
| 24 | The problem needed to be handed over to scientific investigation . |
| 25 | Pinochet also claimed no direct knowledge of events at Pisagua and there were widespread fears that the case would be handed over to military jurisdiction . |
| 26 | Mr Porras , considered a chieftain of the Medellin cocaine cartel , was arrested on Thursday in the northern town of Tulcan , about 10 miles from the Colombian border , and was to be handed over to Colombian authorities ‘ as a show of Ecuador 's support ’ for the drug crackdown , an Ecuadorean spokesman said . |
| 27 | Sir — I am concerned at the cavalier way in which the copyrights of scientific papers are handed over to commercial publishers . |
| 28 | Having learnt its worst fears were about to be realised , that it would be handed over to Chinese rule in 1997 without external protections or guarantees , it immediately put the best possible face on its situation . |
| 29 | Giacomo Pagano , 58 , was handed over to Italian police on Saturday . |
| 30 | By merging rural district councils with nearby urban districts and county councils with county boroughs , it was widely believed that not only was administration bound to become even more remote , but that the control of rural affairs would be handed over to urban interests with no understanding of agriculture and the ways of the countryside . |