Example sentences of "[pron] hand of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if you push me much harder , I 'll wash my hands of the whole thing and tell the Committee I ca n't cope , and make it clear I want you out — out , do you understand ? |
| 2 | The investigation by the all-party Trade and Industry Committee opens as Labour accuse the Government of ‘ wiping its hands of the future of Jaguar , its workforce and the West Midlands car industry . ’ |
| 3 | He said : ‘ I am astonished that the Government , which hailed Jaguar as the flagship of the privatisation programme , has now wiped its hands of the future of the company , its workforce and the West Midlands car industry . ’ |
| 4 | World washes its hands of the horror Commentary . |
| 5 | The League of Nations appeared to have washed its hands of the city , and the general attitude was that it was a matter for Poles and Germans to decide between themselves . |
| 6 | The government is now washing its hands of the industry as it hands it over to a rigged market which will leave very few pits in Britain and the destruction of an asset which the British people asked the government to save and which the government said they were going to save . |
| 7 | In Yugoslavia the bishops washed their hands of the apparitions at Medjugorje . |
| 8 | Immune to such madness , the Springboks washed their bus of obscenity , their hands of the topic and then trained in welcome peace . |
| 9 | As , like Pontius Pilate , the ancestors gladly wash their hands of the sordid business of administering justice , witchcraft readily steps forward to take the necessary action , acquiring in the process an even more clearly defined moralizing character . |
| 10 | His appointment was the success story of this period , and even when the Goldsmiths eventually washed their hands of the School , they continued to help him with gifts to the Church to which he had been appointed in Portwood . |
| 11 | The British had obviously decided to wash their hands of the whole affair . |
| 12 | They wash their hands of the matter . |
| 13 | The Government seem to have washed their hands of the problem : they are taking no responsibility for it , and that is not good enough . |
| 14 | My constituents saw him as a responsible Government officer who came to the House to say that the Government washed their hands of the matter and would leave it alone . |
| 15 | The Irish League can not just wash their hands of the matter , as Morton McKnight seems to have done . |
| 16 | It should not be the intention of the data processing department to ‘ wash their hands of the applications ’ if the major role in decision-making related to their development rests with the users . |
| 17 | He began to whistle , and taking his hands of the handlebars he negotiated the last half mile home without touching them again . |
| 18 | Walkinshaw has now washed his hands of the BRDC , saying : ‘ You should speak to them . |
| 19 | When Pilate realised that a riot was a distinct possibility , he literally took water and washed his hands of the affair with the words : |
| 20 | The well-known story of Curzon 's Tuesday summons from Montacute to London , of his confident and much-photographed arrival , first at Paddington Station and then at Carlton House Terrace , followed by the crushing blow delivered to him that afternoon when Stamfordham called at his house and told him Baldwin was to be Prime Minister , was not therefore a sudden snatching from his hands of the steadily earned and well-deserved prize , but more the last rather overdramatized act of a tragi-comedy which had been played out in varying forms since his appointment as Viceroy of India in 1898 . |
| 21 | Larkin then washed his hands of the peace obligation , thus starting a new battle with the employers which threatened civil war with the capitalist class as a whole . |
| 22 | He can see what the bitter outcome can be , but instead of washing his hands of the affair , he doggedly and morbidly follows the Carbone 's situation to its tragic resolution . |
| 23 | THE Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , was accused yesterday of acting like Pontius Pilate in washing his hands of the controversy over a hospital trust which wants to sack staff and reduce wages . |
| 24 | ‘ Either we wash our hands of the country and allow the Communists to overrun it ; or to continue to pour treasure ( and perhaps eventually lives ) into a hopeless cause … at a cost of alienating vital segments of Asian public opinion . ’ |
| 25 | We are not washing our hands of the problem . |
| 26 | Or perhaps you 're going to wash your hands of the whole business ? |
| 27 | Before you wash your hands of the affair , find out if the lender or adviser is tied or independent — it could make all the difference . |