Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay , so there you are you see , you 're , you 're a first aider and you come up to the person and you hold it the way you did last time and you think ah , now that 's the wrong way round of course , there 's my elbow point , there 's my injured elbow , so I have to be that way round , mm , so you turn it round the other way , right , your elbow shape goes to the injured elbow and your long line goes straight up and down the line of the body , you arrange it so that you only just covering the forearm there , with just enough above the hand to tie your reef knot that would be too little and that would be too much just enough above the hands to tie your reef knot , the first thing you do is to tuck nice , big bit of material right under the hand and anchor it into position , just keep that resting there and all the rest of this goes under the arm up between the shoulder blades there and you tie your first half of the reef knot just above the fingers in the hollow of the neck here , now that 's important because round the back here if you press on that bit of muscle there , there 's a big band of muscle , if you 've got a knot on that it gives a great deal of discomfort very quickly so you want to get the knots round in the hollow here that does n't hurt your casualty , there , draw it up half the knot , is that tight enough ? |
| 2 | It was n't fair , just or right for the Signora to come before the hour appointed ; she should have been admitted by Giovanna herself and the keys should have remained hanging on their appointed hook ; the other set being in the pocket of Giovanna 's overall from which she now drew them and held them up making it clear that they would be relinquished only upon her death and then only into the hands of Signor Kettering . |
| 3 | Rub in the butter with the hands , then add the low-fat cheese spread and work in with the hands . |
| 4 | I dig a hole with the hand trowel and pop them under the courgette together with the hands , feet and eyes ( which I 'd already collected ) . |
| 5 | The Behringer studio noise gate can be likened to a surgeon 's scalpel ; it 's a shining , finely-honed blade of a rack unit , innocent enough in the hands of the unwary , but capable of being used to lethal effect . |
| 6 | Prior to the legislation , the transition was obviously in the hands of the young people themselves , and of their parents , relations , and friends . |
| 7 | A final threat to parliamentary government is increasing technocracy : ‘ the modern state in all advanced countries has become a formidable machine of which the control lies less in the hands of elected representatives of the people than of technicians , specialists , experts . |
| 8 | So long as the techniques that determine both how software is used and how it is made are only in the hands of technical experts , computer systems will never find the universal application which is certainly within their grasp . |
| 9 | If the point of the reference to Marx is to show that emergent English trade unionism had anticipated his conclusion that workers must take control of the means of production , that , to re-iterate his contemporaneous quotation from A Member of the Building Union : ‘ labour and capital will no longer be separate but they will be indissolubly joined together in the hands of the workmen and work-women ’ ; and again , this time from Bronterre O'Brien to the effect that the object of combination was ‘ to establish for the productive classes a complete domination over the fruits of their own industry … . |
| 10 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 11 | Once the school-leaver was placed , the after-care supervision was entirely in the hands of the SCCs , and other associated bodies , who made periodic reports to the local JAC , and as with the earlier form of care committee , a ‘ visitor ’ was named who had the duty of keeping in touch with the young workers until they were 17 or 18 . |
| 12 | I have never felt so unhappy in my life as I did on that short airlift to Dibrugarh , leaving Burma almost entirely in the hands of the Japanese , and knowing how many hundreds of people were stranded on the railway line below Myitkyina . |
| 13 | It suggests that matters of health should not be left entirely in the hands of the medical professionals , particularly if they share and perpetuate the dominant belief that good health is purely a ‘ mechanical ’ process which can be remedied by drugs and surgery . |
| 14 | The education of very small children is entirely in the hands of the mother and nurse . |
| 15 | Products which do not meet consumer desires will fail the market test , but whether products come onto the market in the first place is a matter entirely in the hands of business . |
| 16 | Men with top-level executive positions arrange in advance to take two weeks off to attend the Van Cliburn ; habitual meetings of all description are deferred ; women leave their housekeeping entirely in the hands of their housekeepers . |
| 17 | By degrees Baxendale acquired the remaining interests of the Pickford family and of his two other partners , so that by 1847 ownership of the business was entirely in the hands of himself and his three elder sons , who had become partners in 1843 . |
| 18 | In Spain , which shared a monarch with Naples from 1735 onward , opera was almost entirely in the hands of Neapolitans and Parmesans who only occasionally set Spanish texts . |
| 19 | House Music Competitions The Senior House Music Competition in the Second Term is entirely in the hands of the pupils . |
| 20 | Need I remind council of the fact that the funding for grant maintained schools will be entirely in the hands of fifteen people that are nominated by the government and nobody else . |
| 21 | Poor circulation can often result in dry flaky skin , especially on the hands and arms . |
| 22 | Huge puffy ones started springing up all over the hands at the friction points in Vincente 's system of finger knots . |
| 23 | In other words ‘ the Russian revolution will create conditions in which power can pass in to the hands of the workers … before the politicians of bourgeois liberalism get the chance to display to the full their talent for governing ’ . |
| 24 | Many black teachers hardly fare better at the hands of their white colleagues , often finding themselves the butt of racist jokes , hostile remarks and isolation in the staff room . |
| 25 | According to Presswatch , Scottish companies fared better at the hands of the London press than their English counterparts , with an average score of 198 among the 27 companies monitored . |
| 26 | In 756 , after successfully campaigning against the Britons of Strathclyde and besieging Dumbarton at the time of the alliance with Óengus , son of Forgus , king of the Picts , almost the whole of Eadberht 's army perished at Newburgh on the Tyne , perhaps at the hands of the Britons . |
| 27 | South America , on the other hand , has suffered greatly at the hands of the cattle ranchers . |
| 28 | A cynical nihilist , Andrei expected a sticky end ( if only at the hands of his master and mistress ) and wanted to live well before it came . |
| 29 | erm you know never mind that most children who are beaten or abused or die at their , the hands of their parents er you know , do so at the hands of their heterosexual parents |
| 30 | And ‘ now ’ was slipping away with the hands of the clock . |