Example sentences of "was [prep] the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Power was in the hands of the army , which the Americans had created . |
| 2 | Its chairman was John Grierson who had never been particularly interested in responding to the requirements of the commercial market-place , and production control was in the hands of John Baxter , a onetime director whose films had been of the prosaic but worthy variety . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By the time of the Industrial Revolution , the look of England was in the hands of the speculative builders and the architects . |
| 5 | What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Their future was in the hands of pre-teen and teenage crews as the RYA 's Stuart Jardine and Jim Saltonstall , senior racing coach , stalked them round the lake to see how they performed . |
| 7 | In Essex , the framework for organisation and provision was in the hands of Douglas-Smith who with the assistance of two young women graduates and various part-time tutors expanded the District 's course provision from nineteen classes in 1939–40 to almost fifty by the end of the war . |
| 8 | By the end of the 18th century it was in the hands of John Sutton . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A century later , it was in the hands of Edward Webb , followed by his son , Thomas . |
| 11 | From the middle until the close of the century , it was in the hands of the Escourt family . |
| 12 | During the 1880s and 1890s , the miller was Francis William Giles , by 1914 it was in the hands of James Faulks and between 1927 up to shortly before the Second World War , William George Perry . |
| 13 | By the early 1930s , it was in the hands of John Henry Lawrence , who continued to work it until the mid-1950s . |
| 14 | Then it was in the hands of the Foley family , who were also operating Guns mill at Abenhall . |
| 15 | Later in its life it was in the hands of the Pidcocks , local iron masters , who were also responsible for building a canal from Lydney Docks . |
| 16 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The political leadership of the majority Catholic community was in the hands of the Nationalist Party and Derry 's best-known Nationalist politician , Eddie McAteer , was party leader at Stormont from 1964 until the loss of his seat in 1969 . |
| 20 | Already at the end of the 18C the palace was in the hands of the military and became the Ministry of Foreign Affairs . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The latter was in the hands of Motamid 's younger brother , who at once made an alliance with most of the states of Catalonia , including Barcelona , where El Cid had recently offered his services and been turned away . |
| 23 | Much secondary level education was in the hands of foreign missionaries . |
| 24 | A large part of hostel administration was in the hands of volunteers who were themselves refugees . |
| 25 | In 1947 , Government was in the hands of the Labour Party and in August they brought in a Bill to nationalise all public transport , including the main line railways , the larger bus companies and London Transport . |
| 26 | The book was in the hands of a Cambridge bookseller in 1812 . |
| 27 | The morning of the race , Fuji obscured under a bank of moist clouds , fog drifting over the track , the circuit itself full of huge puddles which men with brooms sought vainly to sweep , a whole season was in the hands of a malignant fate . |
| 28 | The translation of the new book was in the hands of a very scholarly missionary , Charles Garrad , and before long he enlisted me as his assistant . |
| 29 | By 1968 some 73 per cent of beer production was in the hands of seven major national firms , while there had been further progress towards the consolidation of a number of medium-sized regional breweries , largely at the expense of the smaller local firms . |
| 30 | Although the latter was in the hands of people who rarely expressed anything but praise for the Government and TANU , neither of these institutions had editorial control , and there was always the possibility of its political line changing : after all , Ulimwengu had formerly been a firm TANU supporter . |