Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [prep] the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | A large part of hostel administration was in the hands of volunteers who were themselves refugees . |
| 6 | The Independent reported on the same day that control of Kuwait 's security and administration was in the hands of Ali Hasan al Majid , Iraq 's Minister of Local Government and architect of the government 's 1987-88 military campaign against Kurdish rebels . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | That 5½- acre site was in the hands of the liquidator of JMOB for some time , and had obvious disadvantages for any developer . |
| 17 | Yesterday , Miss Emily Grenfell had momentarily been at a loss , wanting to know where her fiance was and realizing to her dismay that his safety was in the hands of the shoemaker 's daughter . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They said everything to do with your husband was in the hands of the police . |
| 20 | What I said was there was some discretion was in the hands of the Home Secretary when he brought forward that commencement date and what he would have in mind is of course the er er not merely what happens er er i er erm in the er er our colleague countries in the community on their commencing er their changes , er but also in the kind of time we would actually need , political parties would need , candidates would need , to run an efficient election campaign here . |
| 21 | On the Mexican Central Railway , the higher officials , engine-drivers , and conductors were all American at the turn of the century ( on the British-financed lines , many of these would have been British ) ; the brakesmen and station-masters were Mexican ; while all catering was in the hands of Chinese . |
| 22 | Much secondary level education was in the hands of foreign missionaries . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | One such collection was in the hands of Galileo 's Paduan friend , G. V. Pinelli . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 29 | They argued that the Senate was in the hands of a mainly southern élite , armed with a self-serving code of legislative norms . |
| 30 | 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 . |