Example sentences of "of the hands of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reform might come from Parliament simply taking the calculation of damages out of the hands of juries , and allowing judges to develop reasonably predictable scales for assessment after the jury has indicated whether damages in the particular case should be substantial , moderate , nominal or contemptuous . |
| 2 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 3 | They were dismissive , however , of President Numeri and his introduction of Sharia , Islamic law , which demanded the amputation of the hands of thieves and forbade all alcohol under threat of public flogging . |
| 4 | As compared with the way in which computing is usually taken out of the hands of machinists when CNC machine tools are introduced , consideration was given in the optical company to the idea of persuading the operators who cut the surfaces of the lenses to do some of their own computing , and even to the idea of installing computing facilities in the surfacing room itself . |
| 5 | Supply would be regulated by a system of government licences analogous to those already in force for tobacco and alcohol ( and which would serve , among other things , to keep drugs out of the hands of children ) , backed by strict policing and heavy penalties . |
| 6 | A MAJOR drive to keep drugs and medicines out of the hands of children has been launched in Essex . |
| 7 | And the time is long past when the question of who deserves what was taken out of the hands of politicians and time-serving bureaucrats and given to a genuinely independent and truly meritorious body which might set about trying to put honour back into the honours system . |