Example sentences of "hand [adv prt] [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he 's handed down management of the firm to his daughter Margaret , Cyril still spends each morning making sandwiches at the back of the shop … then it 's off to the bakery in nearby Wanborough in the afternoon . |
| 2 | The United States officially handed over control of the relief operation in Somalia to the United Nations . |
| 3 | This handed over responsibility for the poor law from the boards of guardians to the local authorities . |
| 4 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 5 | Shankar and Vice-President Henck Arron formally " resigned " and handed over power to the Army on Dec. 27 . |
| 6 | On Dec. 6 Ershad was forced to relinquish power and handed over control of the government to Chief Justice Shehabuddin Ahmed who had been nominated as Acting President by the main opposition alliances . |
| 7 | In the years that followed the Brigade was called to a vast number of outside fires , until they eventually handed over control to the National Fire Service in 1942 . |
| 8 | Marshal Shaposhnikov said Russia 's Foreign Minister would be asked to open talks with the Ukrainian leadership on handing over part of the 300-ship fleet to Ukraine for a coastal defence force . |
| 9 | In 1988 , after the Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza had started their uprising , he made another fateful decision , renouncing Jordan 's claim to the West Bank and handing over responsibility to the Palestine Liberation Organisation . |
| 10 | Lending Services continued to play an active part in the work of the Library and Information Co-operation Council ( LINC ) and the Circle of Officers of National and Regional Library Systems ( CONARLS ) , handing over chairmanship of the latter body to the Irish Central Library for Students at the AGM held in Edinburgh in May . |
| 11 | If height permits , I then like to make a series of stalls using large amounts of rudder and handing over control for a quick recovery , moving the stick forward and using normal stick and rudder together to bring the wings level . |
| 12 | Reuter retired in 1878 , handing over control of the agency to his son Herbert . |
| 13 | While the measures taken by Britain in conjunction with our European partners to isolate the Burmese Government are welcome , the military dictators are still in power , they have no intention of handing over power to the democratically elected Government , and the appalling abuse of human rights continues . |
| 14 | With the approach of the second anniversary of the brutal suppression of pro-democracy demonstrations by the State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) , and no sign of the regime handing over power to the National League for Democracy ( NLD ) despite the latter 's sweeping electoral victory in May 1990 [ see pp. 37457-58 ; 37612 ] , there was a marked increase in tension and a renewal of violence at protests in early August . |
| 15 | The military government in Burma said it would hand over power to the pro-democracy opposition which took an overwhelming lead in the elections for the National Assembly . |
| 16 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 17 | In January the National Party ( NP ) government outlined its plans to hand over sovereignty to a power-sharing administration . |
| 18 | IBM and Hewlett-Packard aim in the medium term to hand over work from the Initiative to an FC/Open consortium . |
| 19 | They would not really want to hand over responsibility to a board of trustees , but would rather retain rights their rights within the museum . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It soon became evident that their overlords , the British , intended to hand over power at an early date . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |