Example sentences of "be [verb] into the hands [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
2 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
3 | But this would undoubtedly be playing into the hands of the enemy at the present nine . |
4 | ‘ In many ways it would be playing into the hands of the terrorists if you make daily life unbearable in the capital . ’ |
5 | ‘ Mr. Green finding it industriously circulated that he has entirely given up his intention of completing his survey , conceives himself for the liberal patronage he has experienced under the obligation of informing his subscribers that so far from relinquishing it , the Plan is three fourths finished , and that he intends laying aside all his other occupations to appropriate the ensuing half-year , from Christmas to midsummer , solely to that work , about which time , as part of it will very early in spring be put into the hands of able engravers , he hopes to complete it . |
6 | After some discussion the Lord Chancellor directed that the money was to be put into the hands of trustees nominated by the committee , or else paid to the Accountant-General — which was likely to lead to added expense . |
7 | ‘ Why should users want Windows to be put into the hands of novices ? |
8 | ‘ Why should users want Windows to be put into the hands of novices ? |
9 | Microsoft Corp 's New Technology operating system , expected to go into beta test this month now not be put into the hands of end users until July , Bill Gates told information systems managers and journalists at a computing debate in London last week . |
10 | But before anything can be put into the hands of the worshipper , many people are involved in its production . |
11 | One effective solution to this has been to identify elements of maintenance that can safely be put into the hands of the users . |
12 | ‘ It is not a tool which can be put into the hands of the average explorer . |
13 | Under the new system all of those services would be put into the hands of three authorities within the existing county boundaries . |