Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [was/were] [prep] the hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 2 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 3 | During the 16th century the mill was in the hands of various members of the Hone family , later passing to the clothier , Thomas Tayloe , from whom the mill took one of its best-remembered names . |
| 4 | By 1839 the mill was in the hands of Richard Hone and in 1840 he installed some form of steam engine , probably to power such auxiliary equipment as a winnower and bolting machine . |
| 5 | The firing hole of the kiln was temporarily blocked with bricks and clay and the control of the burn was in the hands of the ganger . |
| 6 | They had no estates of any size there , and although the king 's representative in Bordeaux and a number of high officials were English , the government of the duchy was in the hands of the Gascons and places in the Church were filled by Gascon prelates . |
| 7 | The bills of lading covering the cargo were in the hands of a Madame Bihi who was the accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to the United Nations Organisations in Geneva . |
| 8 | The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself . |
| 9 | By the beginning of the 19th century the site was in the hands of Thomas England but shortly afterwards was leased and run by members of the Austin family . |
| 10 | A spokesman for Wirral Hospital Trust , which combines the Arrowe Park and Clatterbridge sites , said he had no comment to make , and the matter was in the hands of the police . |
| 11 | They argued that the Senate was in the hands of a mainly southern élite , armed with a self-serving code of legislative norms . |
| 12 | The book was in the hands of a Cambridge bookseller in 1812 . |
| 13 | They were both periods when the presidency was in the hands of the Democrats and the programmes necessitating large growth in the bureaucracy were social-welfare policies of the type embraced by liberals . |
| 14 | Already at the end of the 18C the palace was in the hands of the military and became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . |
| 15 | Tommaso Soldati was the stuccoist for the beautiful sala terrena — a sort of cross between a porte cochère and atmospheric garden room — and frescos were carried out by J. J. Stevens of Steinfels when , in 1717–24 , the palace was in the hands of the Kolowrats of Liebstein . |
| 16 | Norway , Denmark , the Empire were in the hands of men of Thorfinn 's own age , at the height of their vigour . |