Example sentences of "handed [adv] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I recall it , I was a parcel , handed on to the next bloke at the end of the day . |
| 2 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 3 | Admittedly , gifts during life will be taxed less heavily than bequests , provided that the donor survives the gift by four years , but even so it will be almost impossible for a thriving business or a farm of economic size to be handed down to the next generation . |
| 4 | And when , after lunch , she came downstairs in her new outfit , bought from Selfridge 's last week with the money which J. D. O'Connor had paid her for her articles , and with her next two articles in her bag , ready to be handed in to the great man himself before she returned to the rectory to pick up Rose Bailey , whose time off did not begin until four-thirty , both Dr Neil and Matey thought that she looked enchanting . |
| 5 | The transcripts were handed over to the Serious Fraud Office , and duly and properly given to the defendants in the criminal proceedings . |
| 6 | Some reports in early December alleged that Arad was being held in Syria , having been handed over to the Syrian government by Hezbollah , although Hezbollah officially denied any knowledge of Arad . |
| 7 | By October 1989 , 20 per cent of Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia had been withdrawn , and military equipment , facilities and the base at Ulaan Orhon had been handed over to the Mongolian government [ for start of withdrawal in May 1989 see p.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 ] . |
| 8 | Mr. Mason remained with the Tramway companies , but the three electric-lighting offices and show rooms were handed over to the new authority . |
| 9 | The building and the organisation were handed over to the new body of Guardians of the Bedford Poor Law Union , on November 7th 1836 . |
| 10 | Ratepayer democracy … implied less local government , with fewer services to provide since some of them could be handed over to the private sector , to the supposed benefit of consumers and ratepayers alike . |
| 11 | He drew up an agreement in two copies , setting out the terms in ponderous detail : ‘ … referred to henceforth as ‘ the colony' ’ … which wheels shall be considered as handed over to the Economic Section of the Provincial Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspection after their reception by a special commission and the signing of the corresponding protocol . ’ |
| 12 | You 've got I 'll give you twenty minutes and it 's got ta be ready to be handed over to the other group in twenty minutes time . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | The dispute concerned what proportion of the Fleet should become Ukrainian and what should be handed over to the joint Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) strategic forces . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The money was handed over to the Geriatric Unit at Belfast City Hospital by Mrs Alison Chick . |
| 17 | According to a member of the Lebanese Security Services they were transferred to Libya , where the RCF had its headquarters , and on Jan. 8 the Phalangist Radio Free Lebanon reported that Walid Khaled , the RCF spokesman in Lebanon , said they had been " moved to a friendly country in preparation " ; on Jan. 12 Sa'id was paroled and sent to Libya , and the hostages were handed over to the Belgian government . |
| 18 | It was handed over to the National Trust in 1956 . |
| 19 | A CHEQUE for £890 has been handed over to the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund by firemen in Downpatrick . |
| 20 | He was handed over to the British army and sent back to England . |
| 21 | The Independent of Nov. 15 had meanwhile published details of internal UN documents which seemed to suggest that a UN official had handed over to the Moroccan government information supplied in confidence by the Polisario Front . |
| 22 | " These anti-partisan units are without exception completely compromised by open collaboration with the Germans ' he wrote , but he recommended that in view of the complexity of the situation they should not be " handed over to the Yugoslav army " but " should be disarmed and placed in refugee camps ! |
| 23 | Members of the project carry out their own maintenance , as few sites would survive long if handed over to the local authority . |
| 24 | However , she only keeps it for a few weeks before it is handed back to the new Lady Mayoress by the sheriff for the price of a kiss . |
| 25 | His remarks were made when one of the locations used to store a unique collection of German literature taken from Germany in 1945 was recently handed back to the Orthodox Church , after four decades of being used as a store for the collection . |
| 26 | Baby One has been handed back to the local health authority and is being cared for at another hospital . |