Example sentences of "whose hand " in BNC.

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1 Godfrey Carey , for the prosecution , told the jury that the young woman had ‘ only taken a lift from someone in whose hands you could not really expect to be more safe — an officer in uniform ’ .
2 It might seem that so artificial a superiority was certain to prove as transient as the hegemonies that it had replaced , although those in whose hands power lay were for the most part undaunted by the new challenges to Britain 's position that they sensed …
3 By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences .
4 Sharon Jackson , 21 , whose hands were sewn back after being severed by a wallpaper factory guillotine eight weeks ago , left Withington Hospital , Manchester , yesterday .
5 He must have been the tenant for , in 1812 , the mill had been bought by Peter Playne from the Wade family , in whose hands it had remained since around 1758 .
6 There were n't enough rupees to oil the wheels for those ‘ whose hands are greased not from honest toil ’ , as an Indian newspaper euphemistically described sticky palms .
7 It was not only a long job , but a painful one for Deborah , the backs of whose hands were pricked , scored and smeared with blood before she succeeded in freeing the lamb altogether .
8 You may be someone whose hands shake when they are nervous .
9 whether the tendency of the matter charged as obscenity is to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influence and into whose hands such a publication might fall .
10 No matter how helpful some of the tools presented seem to appear , they will prove useless and even harmful if taken up by those with eyes which are spiritually blind and whose hands lack spiritual strength .
11 The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin .
12 When this failed , the Scots withdrew from England , after having their expenses paid by Parliament , in whose hands the King was left .
13 Yet faceless demons whose hands spit fire have killed my holy hunters … ’
14 Where she is now , in whose hands , whether she 's still alive , these are the questions you need to have answered before paying a ransom . ’
15 Sir , — I am indebted to Mrs Swindin for her lucid article of May 10 , in which she explains in whose hands the Suffolk County Council has been in until quite recently .
16 When the French nobility , in whose hands the resolution of such a crisis lay , made its choice , that choice was to make one of their number , Philip , count of Valois , king .
17 A parade of martyred scientists would show by whose hands the real errors had been committed .
18 To understand the events in question , it is also necessary to consider in whose hands political power was concentrated .
19 They had little confidence in the pilot who was eventually produced and whose hands shook like those of a dope-fiend .
20 Many of them , beginning principally with the Production Designer , Raymond Cusick , in whose hands rest the visual look of the story , from the smallest prop to the biggest backdrop , and especially of the design and handling of the Daleks themselves .
21 They argue that ‘ directors and top executives , in whose hands the major strategic decisions lie , are , in fact , owners of large stockholdings themselves ’ .
22 Third , the particular reputational approach used by Hunter presupposed that which remained to be proven — that there is a group of forty people in whose hands power in Atlanta is concentrated — by devoting all his efforts to finding out the names of people who appear to belong to this elite .
23 He then waited for his new prime minister , Sharpour Bakhtiar , who had been imprisoned several times during his reign , and in whose hands he now was leaving the country .
24 Some of the manuscript diaries had already been destroyed by his widow , and the bulk of the remainder were also destroyed in obscure circumstances by his niece , into whose hands they had passed , in the 1950s .
25 In between swigs they expressed approval or disparagement of the play with drawn-out exclamations of ‘ Ooooh ! ’ and ‘ Aaaah ! ’ and — from those whose hands were not otherwise encumbered — the occasional burst of applause .
26 In the learned hierarchy the term — literally " one who is assiduous , constant in attendance ’ was used for a candidate for office at any stage in his career , for the muderris or kadi awaiting his next post as well as for the beginner , the term in Ottoman usage perhaps reflecting the fact that the candidates were in constant attendance theoretically upon the sultan but in fact more usually upon the kazaskers , in whose hands lay the responsibility for nominating men for most posts until near the end of the sixteenth century .
27 ‘ The man whose hands fit the — ’
28 Will the Secretary of State call on the Roman Catholic Church — many of whose members have suffered at the hands of the IRA — to excommunicate those members of the IRA whose hands are dripping with the blood of innocent victims ?
29 Even Mervyn , whose hands were flying across the keys of his accordion , was seen to gape up towards the thing dancing like a huge firefly in the dusk .
30 Their increasing withdrawal from the mainstream of European politics was a significant aspect of one of the most important changes of the nineteenth century — the clear emergence of a group of great powers in whose hands alone the political future of the continent was recognised to lie , and the relegation of all the other European states more clearly than in the past to varying degrees of political unimportance .
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