Example sentences of "[was/were] in the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capitalist activity in the nineteenth century , for the reasons discussed above , was mainly associated with new types of activity , such as cocoa production or mineral mining , whether these were in the hands of European or African entrepreneurs . |
| 2 | They were in the hands of vested interests , not in possession of the facts , ’ said Mr Roberts . |
| 3 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 4 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 5 | In fact , when the bonds were redeemed in 1983 the 280 bonds issued in 1907 were in the hands of only 47 people who had the power to elect two-thirds of the committee to run a club with over 600 members ! |
| 6 | This right was often exercised and mean that by 1983 many were in the hands of individuals with no interest in golf , but who had inherited bonds by assignment through parents or grandparents . |
| 7 | As with a number of other regions , a number of these early mill sites were in the hands of religious foundations , such as the Benedictines and Cistercian Orders who , up to the time of their suppression in the 16th century , owned as many mills as any of the estates or manors in Britain . |
| 8 | More than 120 copies were in the hands of various TV and broadcasting units by 4pm on Tuesday , the time The Sun says it got its copy . |
| 9 | In 1975 , Wilcox listed seventy-one newspapers in independent black African countries , of which all but twenty were in the hands of governments or ruling parties . |
| 10 | A few were in the hands of private companies , but the majority were owned either by the Federal or state governments . |
| 11 | Diagnosis and treatment were in the hands of the medical experts who held the franchise on knowledge . |
| 12 | By 1427 , much of Maine and Anjou , names whose familiarity stems from their frequent appearance on the list of English diplomatic demands , were in the hands of the English , now advancing southwards . |
| 13 | Until the Public Records Act 1958 the care and preservation of public records were in the hands of the Master of the Rolls , an anachronistic responsibility for a senior judge who in his modern incarnation is fully occupied in presiding over the civil work of the Court of Appeal . |
| 14 | The Alien effects on the second outing were in the hands of Stan Winston , who ( like Rambaldi ) won an Oscar for his efforts . |
| 15 | Communications , security and the maintenance of the entire complex were in the hands of Russian officers under contract to the Iraqi government . |
| 16 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 17 | The bills of lading covering the cargo were in the hands of a Madame Bihi who was the accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to the United Nations Organisations in Geneva . |
| 18 | The finances were in the hands of one of our most scrupulous colleagues , but not even her careful accounting could alter the fact that if we were to survive beyond the first month we would need to raise some money . |
| 19 | Tt er well we had like I I say , we w we were i we were in the hands we were in the hands of the er Italian army , the er regular army from Italy , we were in their hands er for quite some time . |
| 20 | Tt er well we had like I I say , we w we were i we were in the hands we were in the hands of the er Italian army , the er regular army from Italy , we were in their hands er for quite some time . |
| 21 | If we now introduce the idea that the control and management of this bridge , including its finances , were in the hands of periodically-elected local politicians , the system appears in sharper relief . |
| 22 | Porua 's vineyards , long the source of the fortune of the de Madariaga family , were in the hands of one or other of the revolutionary parties . |
| 23 | On closer examination , however , it was immediately clear that Franco did not trust the Falangists in the areas most closely related to the exercise of real power ( i.e. to the control of the force of arms ) : all three defence Ministries were in the hands of military men well known for anti-Falangist political sympathies . |
| 24 | Norway , Denmark , the Empire were in the hands of men of Thorfinn 's own age , at the height of their vigour . |
| 25 | Furthermore , a quarter of the freeholdings were in the hands of completely different families from those which had held them in 1575 . |
| 26 | Power was in the hands of the army , which the Americans had created . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | By the time of the Industrial Revolution , the look of England was in the hands of the speculative builders and the architects . |
| 30 | What power it had was in the hands of an aging bureaucracy . |