Example sentences of "be hand [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Even more alluringly , the entire process could be handed over to private enterprise . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The problem needed to be handed over to scientific investigation . |
| 14 | American political pressure on Churchill in London , and diplomatic help to Nasser in Cairo , resulted in the highly unsatisfactory Anglo-Egyptian Agreement of October 1954 , whereby the military base installations in the Canal Zone were to be handed over to British civilian contractors , and all uniformed personnel were to leave Egypt by the end of March 1956 . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | Flats " used for conspiracy [ by the StB ] " were to be handed over to local government bodies . |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | Pacific Bell says that where applications cross its service area boundaries , transmissions will be handed off to long distance carriers of the customers ' choice . |
| 21 | There is clearly now an urgent need for a Historic Stations Trust to remove those treasures that remain beyond the reach of the hammers of the destroyers , both official and unofficial , so that at least part of this precious heritage may be handed down to future generations . |