Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [prep] the hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of it was in small parcels ; some was not suitable for development at all because of physical difficulties ; and , of the remainder , a great deal was already in the hands of builders . |
| 2 | By degrees Baxendale acquired the remaining interests of the Pickford family and of his two other partners , so that by 1847 ownership of the business was entirely in the hands of himself and his three elder sons , who had become partners in 1843 . |
| 3 | Once the school-leaver was placed , the after-care supervision was entirely in the hands of the SCCs , and other associated bodies , who made periodic reports to the local JAC , and as with the earlier form of care committee , a ‘ visitor ’ was named who had the duty of keeping in touch with the young workers until they were 17 or 18 . |
| 4 | In fact we now know that in many instances , for example in the steel-making industry that Kathleen Stone describes , control was firmly in the hands of the craftsmen themselves . |
| 5 | As Stephen Wood points out in his Introduction to his edited book discussing the de-skilling thesis ( Wood 1982 , 15 ) , Braverman appears to assume ‘ that prior to Taylorism control was not in the hands of management , but was rather a kind of management by neglect ( the laissez-faire method , as Taylor called it ) , in which workers knew more than managers ’ . |
| 6 | But where a parish was mostly in the hands of a small peasantry , and this was true of a great many parishes in Midland and eastern England , the effect would have been entirely different . |
| 7 | As Cowley walked towards the slightly hunched figure of Bodie , he was able to see Doyle 's peaceful face , eyes closed , white as a sheet ; a moment later the trolley was behind the closing doors of the lift , and Doyle 's life was now in the hands of others , men skilled in surgery , and in the ways of keeping the tenuous thread of life attached to a dying body . |
| 8 | Prior to the legislation , the transition was obviously in the hands of the young people themselves , and of their parents , relations , and friends . |
| 9 | A spokeswoman for the Ombudsman 's office said the draft report was still in the hands of the DTI and that publication could not take place until it had been returned . |
| 10 | Until November 1989 political power was effectively in the hands of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia ( KSC or CPCz ) . |
| 11 | In practice real power was largely in the hands of Holland , much the richest and most important of the seven provinces , and particularly in those of its chief official , the Grand Pensionary . |
| 12 | So , in what was nominally a democracy , power was really in the hands of the first citizen … |
| 13 | Technically , overlooking TAS 's watching brief , the investigation into the deaths of the Pitt family was now in the hands of a senior local CID officer , Chief Inspector Chips Salter . |
| 14 | Tory aristocrats , Liberals and Fabians all saw in Law 's election the triumph of this " new mercantile Conservatism " and the final triumph of tariff reform ; the party was now in the hands of hard-faced businessmen , and all sorts of undesirable results would inevitably follow . |