Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [prep] the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the day-to-day administration of the south-western French possessions of the English crown was in the hands of knightly-seneschals or lawyer-seneschals , aided and abetted by a Gascon council , by their own lieutenants , and ( after 1279 ) by sub-seneschals in the major subdivisions of the duchy . |
| 2 | Or conversely , a political system in which a monarch or an aristocracy formally ruled might disguise the fact that real power was in the hands of the people . |
| 3 | The newly-appointed Estonian leader Vaino Valjas complained that more than 90 per cent of the republican economy was in the hands of Moscow ministries , and called for the balance to be reversed in the republic 's favour . |
| 4 | When he raised his standard at Nottingham he was joined by a number of Members of Parliament who had previously criticised him but now felt that the Parliamentary cause was in the hands of extremists . |
| 5 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 6 | When Layton hired Mayfair-based KAS , started by Sir David Stirling , founder of the SAS , its day-to-day running was in the hands of another former SAS colonel , Ian Crook . |
| 7 | Much secondary level education was in the hands of foreign missionaries . |
| 8 | The pope was the greatest intermediary in western Christendom , and much diplomatic intercourse was in the hands of papal legates , bishops and clerks at this time . |
| 9 | The detailed planning for the equipping and use of the new Block was in the hands of the newly-appointed Head of Physics , Mr. J.H. Avery . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | National pamphleteers remote from the social relations of the villages might rant on about the idle and undeserving poor , but relief at local level was in the hands of the annually elected parish overseers supervised by the vestry meeting , and they knew their own poor well enough . |
| 12 | Furthermore , Sica believed that the direction of organized crime was in the hands of no more than 17 men whose names were known to the authorities , and that if those individuals could be convicted the Mafia would collapse . |
| 13 | 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 . |