Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] of the hand of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the thirteenth century the decoration of manuscripts was passing out of the hands of the religious houses to artists grouped together within the towns and working for patrons both lay and ecclesiastical . |
| 2 | The extent to which control has moved out of the hands of the local authorities can be seen in Figure 6.7 , where an asterisk ( * ) indicates a power traditionally held by the LEA which can now be taken over by schools which ‘ opt out ’ ; a dagger ( t ) indicates new powers which central government has taken on since 1979 , often transferred from the LEA ; and a double dagger ( 1– ) in the parents or governors column indicates new duties and rights they have received since 1979 . |
| 3 | By this process control passes out of the hands of the inefficient management team to those who are able to utilise the company 's assets at a level closer to their true potential . |
| 4 | Since the maximum term of imprisonment which might be imposed in the Magistrates ' court for a single offence is six months , the Act effectively took out of the hands of the magistrates the power to impose sentences of immediate imprisonment on the majority of offenders who had not previously been sentenced to imprisonment or borstal training . |
| 5 | Initially , it seemed that control of surveyors ' education would pass out of the hands of the membership of the Institution and into those of the academics . |
| 6 | Melchet Forest in Wiltshire finally passed out of the hands of the Crown in 1614 , when it was leased to Sir Lawrence Hyde , and in the same year John Waller and Thomas Purcell received a grant of Pamber Forest in Hampshire , ‘ consisting of the soil only , the woods being sold away and the deer gone ’ . |
| 7 | The manor passed out of the hands of the Archbishop and into the hands of the Crown in 1545 . |
| 8 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 9 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 13 | We believe the special nature of this case suggests the decision should be taken out of the hands of the borough council and examined dispassionately at a public inquiry . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office . |
| 15 | Successive Governments have adopted the policy that individual decisions should be taken out of the hands of local planning authorities only if they raise issues of more than local importance . |
| 16 | So the question to be asked is how can the authoring of multimedia be taken out of the hands of technical experts such as computer programmers and be placed firmly in the control of the content , applications and creative experts ? |
| 17 | The change in status means that control of the ancient woodlands is to be taken out of the hands of the Forestry Commission , who were opposed to the move , and a new governing body is to be set up along the lines of the Norfolk Broads Authority . |
| 18 | Conference decisions were taken out of the hands of the National Executive on several major issues , indicating a spirit of defiant independence which was rare in the Party as a whole . |
| 19 | Sources indicated yesterday that the pricing process had been taken out of the hands of Scottish management . |
| 20 | It is therefore argued that the operation of monetary policy should be taken out of the hands of the government which is politically motivated and into the hands of the Central Bank , which is neutral but has a reputation to uphold ( such a situation exists in Germany , with the Bundesbank deciding on monetary policy ) . |