Example sentences of "be handed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're handed on complete to every generation and they have their effects in every generation . |
| 2 | Radical proposals to restrict rod licences to those who have passed an angling test have been handed to the Sports Council review panel by the Institute of Fisheries Management . |
| 3 | Not , of course , at Steinmark 's death , but at how Nagel had confided in him and how , quite explicitly , responsibility for the sub-section had been handed to himself . |
| 4 | He refused to say whether seven or eight voting slips had been handed to him , and said they were all destroyed soon after . |
| 5 | He refused to say whether seven or eight voting slips had been handed to him , and said they were all destroyed soon after . |
| 6 | A donation of £260 from the proceeds of the tombola stall and refreshment/poster sales has been handed to the theatre by the Friends who have already made plans for a repeat performance in the autumn . |
| 7 | It seems sometimes as if this theory , used to explain the processes not only of combustion but also calcination , definitely had been handed to Priestley for special keeping as he adhered to it unswervingly all his life . |
| 8 | A MULTI-MILLION pound building project aimed at boosting British jobs has been handed to the Germans . |
| 9 | The job of taking over the No 10 jersey from injured Australia skipper Michael Lynagh has been handed to his Queeensland understudy Paul Kahl , who will be making his Test debut . |
| 10 | The high-tech personalised plastic cards — nicknamed bog breakers — have been handed to all 1,400 pupils at The Ridings School at Winterbourne , near Bristol . |
| 11 | With Walsh under suspension , the unenviable job of marking Bull has been handed to Simon Grayson . |
| 12 | A grant of £1.3 million has been handed to the club by the Football Trust and a new 6,000 tier will take the capacity to 40,500 by August , 1994 . |
| 13 | He said : ‘ The way they talk , anyone would think the £50 billion debt had been handed to them on a plate . |
| 14 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 15 | One 's just been handed to me here , Christine from Derby says I 've kept cats for twenty years and taught them loads of tricks . |
| 16 | Czechoslovakia , a democratic state with a mass socialist and trade-union movement , had been handed to the Nazis by the National government , which now expected the labour movement to support a war for Poland , a society much less attractive to democrats let alone socialists . |
| 17 | TWO substantial sums of money found in Londonderry city centre have been handed to police . |
| 18 | The petition has been handed to Alyn and Deeside MP Barry Jones who will deliver it to Welsh Secretary John Redwood . |
| 19 | A PETITION signed by local people has been handed to Wrexham Maelor Council objecting to its policy of wheel clamping cars and protesting against an alleged lack of security in ‘ pay and display ’ car parks . |
| 20 | A letter alleging offers of preferential inducements has been handed to the EC 's competition commissioner , Karl Van Miert . |
| 21 | Fifteen fox cubs have been handed into the care of a Wildlife Rescue Centre . |
| 22 | Any wounded or distressed creatures that are handed to us are carefully nursed back to health whilst our breeding programmes produce an ever-increased number of baby marine creatures , many of which are then released into the wild . |
| 23 | The identity booklet ( or key card ) together with any messages or letters that may be waiting for them are handed to the guest . |
| 24 | Parts II and III are handed to the employees to take to their next employers , who will copy the details on to the P11 card , file Part II for reference and complete Part III and send it to their local inspector of taxes . |
| 25 | To answer this correctly you need to analyse the tasks that face you currently to decide how many of them can be handed on immediately , or later with careful preparation . |
| 26 | Such a libretto can then be handed to a composer or arranger of music and a designer so that they can make their contributions to the total production . |
| 27 | THE Coopers and Lybrand report on how Ferranti came to be defrauded of £215m after buying American arms firm International Signal and Control is expected to be handed to the Serious Fraud Office within days . |
| 28 | SFO to get Ferranti report : The Coopers and Lybrand report on how Ferranti came to be defrauded of £215m after buying American firm International Signal and Control is expected to be handed to the Serious Fraud Office within days . |
| 29 | The report will also be handed to the Serious Fraud Office . |
| 30 | A rabbit has been pulled out of the political hat , and might be handed to Hong Kong . |