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 . |