Example sentences of "handed [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The latter , aptly plate number 617 , was handed on to the squadron 's current commanding officer Wing Commander Jonathon Dickinson .
2 The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do .
3 The calculation takes account of processing power and the speed of communication links , and then the request to start the thread is handed on to the processor with the least to do .
4 She saw herself , her head a foam of lacy white like the shining tumbleweed caught in the evening light as it floats through the air , handed on to the bar stool , her little feet — her good point — showing beneath the hem of her skirt where it rode up as she adjusted herself .
5 The greater part of their duties in terms of expenditure was not handed down to the boroughs but passed over to newly established joint boards for police , the fire brigade , passenger transport and the probation service because these functions require wider operational areas than the boroughs can provide .
6 When the card is full , it is handed in to the station in exchange for a new one ; the old card is kept for reference .
7 It is now six months since the report was handed in to the Department of Industry — as long as it took to prepare the report in the first place .
8 During 1992 , 150 items of found property were handed in to the Police at Dounreay .
9 The paying-in slips are completed and the cash and slips are handed in to the bank cashier who will check that they are all correct , stamp the counterfoil and retain the paying-in slip .
10 Registered mail has to be handed in to the post office , which issues an official receipt .
11 Registered letter envelopes in different sizes can be obtained from the post office , or a stout envelope or package can be used by drawing blue lines across the face before it is handed in to the post office .
12 Raiders like the Savannah , most feared of the Southern privateers , were secretly handed over to the Confederates in the Azores , by a merchant class who had helped finance and develop the southern plantations and economy .
13 NVA barracks and training areas were being handed over to the government for civilian use as rapidly as possible .
14 His place of birth , Montona near Trieste , was one day just handed over to the Communists and became a part of Yugoslavia .
15 In Brewster ( 1979 ) 69 Cr App R 375 ( CA ) , an insurance agent was guilty of theft of the premiums because the money had to be handed over to the companies he worked for under the terms of his contract .
16 He always forgets that , with the Inland Revenue , we are considering how much of a citizen 's money should be handed over to the state , whereas in matters relating to benefits we are considering how the taxpayer 's money is handed out on our behalf .
17 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 .
18 In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito .
19 During a parliamentary debate on May 10 , Sheikh Hasina accused the government of incompetence and demanded that the entire relief operation be handed over to the army .
20 The bases were officially handed over to the army at noon today .
21 The Cárdenas city government was handed over to the PRD .
22 He continued until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC .
23 He continued as secretary until 1965 , when the NCLC was handed over to the TUC .
24 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 .
25 It was agreed that this would be handed over to the Angevins when the marriage itself took place .
26 The new minibus was handed over to the school yesterday in a ceremony attended by governors and members of the Eastbourne Parent Teachers Association .
27 The State Department thus confirmed Macmillan 's recommendation that the Cossacks in 5 Corps area should be handed over to the Soviets in accordance with the Yalta agreement .
28 In listing the various problems faced by 5 Corps , Macmillan includes " Dealing with the White Russians and Cossacks , together with their wives and families , serving in these German forces ' and " Dealing with Ustachis , Chetniks and other Yugoslav refugees , deciding which , if any , are to be handed over to the Tito troops etc " .
29 Refused by all , he doggedly returned to Scotland and carried on guerilla warfare until , captured by further treachery , he was handed over to the English by the sheriff of Dumbarton .
30 The ‘ appointed day ’ when all tramways had to be handed over to the Board , was 1 July 1933 .
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