Example sentences of "[be] hand [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prisoners arrested for Forest trespasses ought to have been handed over to the sheriff of Rutland for imprisonment in Oakham castle , but Neville put them in his own gaol at Allexton , which was ‘ full of water at the bottom ’ , and bound them with iron chains . |
| 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 | However , that right ceases when the second copy of the consignment note has been handed over to the original designated consignee . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | All this initial provision had been handed over to the Department . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's now been handed over to the District Council I think they should be looking at it as a . |
| 8 | It has conveniently been handed over to the training and enterprise councils , but then the Government cynically deny them the resources to do the job . |
| 9 | By October 1989 , 20 per cent of Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia had been withdrawn , and military equipment , facilities and the base at Ulaan Orhon had been handed over to the Mongolian government [ for start of withdrawal in May 1989 see p.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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A CHEQUE for £890 has been handed over to the National Fire Service Benevolent Fund by firemen in Downpatrick . |
| 15 | The report has been handed over to the R U C Constable Hugh Annersley . |
| 16 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 17 | Baby One has been handed back to the local health authority and is being cared for at another hospital . |
| 18 | German embassy officials in Moscow said the unframed pictures , contained in a battered brown portfolio , had been handed back to the embassy by a former Red Army officer who insisted on remaining anonymous . |
| 19 | Four bags of toxic waste which were found abandoned on the Oxford ring road have been handed back to the company that lost them . |
| 20 | In part it must mean that past generations of people have created a culture and it has been handed down to the present generation . |
| 21 | But lap-steel is a relative newcomer to the island 's culture when compared with the tradition of slack key guitar , a beautiful acoustic fingerpicking style based around dropped , or ‘ slack ’ open tunings which have been handed down through the generations . |
| 22 | Their sunny main bedroom is the perfect home for older pieces of furniture , most of which have been handed down through the generations — Mary Jane 's mother made the tapestry fireguard and her great-grandmother made the beautiful bedspread |
| 23 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 24 | Panalpina have been handed down by the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Meanwhile work on full employment policy had been handed down by the politicians to a committee of officials . |
| 26 | Because modesty in behaviour is such a high priority , these laws of Taharat HaMishpachah have not been publicized , but have been handed down throughout the generations . |
| 27 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 28 | The word had been handed down from the so-called serial killer , Alan Yentob , the newly-appointed BBC1 controller . |
| 29 | Almost 2,000 knives and other blades have been handed in during the first fortnight of the month-long amnesty . |
| 30 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |