Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [art] hands " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She 's in the hands of the doctors and we have to accept that . |
2 | Apparently , they 've issued a description and it 's in the hands of the police . ’ |
3 | Actually the healing is not usually in the wings it 's in the hands that come out from the sun and the healing is the of Ancient Egypt which meant life , spirit and er and health . |
4 | Sh I rang er my lo local councillor an h he looked into it , an he said , er it 's in the hands now of the Electricity Board . |
5 | he 's in the hands of these people here , who tell him what to do and what not to do |
6 | That is in the hands of the government . ’ |
7 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
8 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
9 | In Baluchistan , the route for a major portion of Afghanistan 's opium , the government is in the hands of the opposition . |
10 | But there 's also some danger in drifting into a situation where all of that , and the power to get exactly what he wants , is in the hands of one person struggling with a new job , isolated among unfamiliar collaborators . |
11 | Lewis 's , a provincial chain of department stores which employed 3,400 people , is in the hands of the receivers . |
12 | The whole matter is in the hands of the courts at the moment . |
13 | At a time of fluctuations in world rankings , it is rash to think that the destiny of the famous green jacket is in the hands of only two players , but there is no doubt at all that — as far as Couples is concerned — ‘ the United States expects ’ . |
14 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
15 | The administrative receivership is in the hands of Touche Ross , who will continue to run the company as a going concern with a view to finding a new buyer from the majority shareholder , Bob Curry . |
16 | Now the estate is in the hands of Dr Douglas Wise and Coldingham Loch has been developed into a very attractive fishery . |
17 | Thou vauntest much of conquering me , but victory is in the hands of the Almighty , not in thine . |
18 | Because the additional quantity of products which must flow into our heavy industry has to be taken from outside , not from within the sphere of heavy industry itself , which is in the hands of the workers ' state , but from elsewhere , from other external sources , whatever the price we have to pay . |
19 | The preservation of the ozone layer is in the hands of worldwide governments and market forces . |
20 | SELECT THE RIGHT TOY FOR THE RIGHT AGED CHILD A safe toy becomes a danger if it is in the hands of too young a child . |
21 | Rents are kept to a reasonable level to enable as many people as possible to benefit , and the maintenance is in the hands of a committee who hold regular fund-raising events . |
22 | I do know that my sister is in the hands of the only person who can perform this highly skilled operation , and that he is someone who saw fit to increase his patient 's fears at a time when she most needed reassurance . |
23 | Lord Palumbo said : ‘ The matter is in the hands of my solicitor . ’ |
24 | ‘ Getting a job ’ is a bad example of a reward , because you do not have total control over it-it is in the hands of the employer . |
25 | Mr Friend said : ‘ The matter is in the hands of the police . ’ |
26 | Saunders was unavailable for comment yesterday , but a spokesman for the striker said : ‘ The matter is in the hands of solicitors and there will be no further comment . ’ |
27 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
28 | It divides the north , controlled by warlord Mohamed Ali Mahdi , and the south , which is in the hands of his rival General Mohamed Farah Aideed . |
29 | Those who run tennis live in the Victorian age , football is run by proven failures , cricket ruled by men who still belong to the archaic Gentlemen v. Players era and athletics is in the hands of incompetent amateurs . |
30 | Danger , from the Piaroa point of view , is from the predatory activities of beings from other worlds , and the responsibility for protection from them is in the hands of the shamanic ruwatu . |