Example sentences of "be handed over to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Sir — I am concerned at the cavalier way in which the copyrights of scientific papers are handed over to commercial publishers .
4 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The problem needed to be handed over to scientific investigation .
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 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 .
19 Flats " used for conspiracy [ by the StB ] " were to be handed over to local government bodies .
20 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 ?
21 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 . ’
22 In the event , only Christen was handed over to Syrian officers in West Beirut on Aug. 8 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 Giacomo Pagano , 58 , was handed over to Italian police on Saturday .
26 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 .
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