Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] hands [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was easy enough to get the front door open one-handed , not so easy to switch on the hall light with no hands at all . |
| 2 | Dalglish is enjoying a golfing break in Spain and has left deal in the hands of assistant Ray Harford . |
| 3 | Following the pattern of development of municipal law we will be able to outlaw self-help in the enforcement of international law , remove the weapons of violence from the hands of those who might break the law and ensure that no state is a judge in its own cause when it comes to questions of legitimate self-defence or disputes about allegations of aggression . |
| 4 | I would say , ‘ Exploited and humiliated brothers of the West , did we really gain anything by placing the struggle against our just grievances in the hands of a merciless and megalomaniac Georgian with a moustache ? ’ |
| 5 | Ireland provides distinct evidence that civilisation in the hands of the few must be maintained by exclusivity ( Irenius insists that any social contact between English and Irish be suppressed and expressly advocates forbidding the English the opportunity of learning Gaelic ) . |
| 6 | God placed the enforcing of Satan 's defeat in the hands of His servants and He has given them the authority . |
| 7 | Over the years the slow accumulation of bonds by the Club ( mostly by gift ) increasingly concentrated the power of the Club in the hands of those whose bonds were still to be redeemed , i.e. fewer and fewer people . |
| 8 | In the early days of July it seemed that the president 's plan could not fail : the leaders of every mainstream party joined the ‘ Yes ’ campaign , leaving opposition in the hands of an unholy alliance between the Fascists and Communists . |
| 9 | It involves the centralisation of power and its concentration in the hands of experts ( such as prison governors , teachers , factory managers ) with special knowledge . |
| 10 | The first of these is arrestment on the dependence which is an attachment of funds in the hands of a third party pending resolution of the matter in dispute . |
| 11 | It has placed its diplomatic future in the hands of one outside power , and this may eventually prove more dangerous than adopting a less aggressive policy towards its neighbours . |
| 12 | RHYL Football Club will put their future in the hands of members and season ticket holders at a special general meeting in the Town Hall tomorrow night . |
| 13 | ‘ Might there not be a case for putting the initial interview in the hands of an educational psychologist skilled in eliciting a history without being committed to what the social workers revealingly call ‘ disclosure ’ ? ' , he suggested . |
| 14 | Furthermore , in the UK the regulation is not in practice in the hands of one regulatory body . |
| 15 | Secondly , the voting system puts patronage in the hands of the elite in each party . |
| 16 | Although these sorts of depreciatory arrangements can not be used to create allowable losses in the hands of the vendor company ( s 176 TCGA ) , they can within limits be used to reduce the vendor 's chargeable gain without the vendor 's having to realise the assets and business which may have a very low historical value . |
| 17 | A further example of this caginess was the list of companies that refused to be interviewed for a Today Tonight programmed on gold mining in March 1990 : Riofinex , Glencar , Feltrim 's Conor Haughey and Navan Resources all refused to be interviewed for the programme , leaving the defence of the mining industry in the hands of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Ennex International and a speaker from Tara Mines , rather than Tara Prospecting . |
| 18 | For instance , in a neat linguistic reversal , she argues against the radical feminist view of ‘ male violence in the hands of the state ’ , in favour of a socialist-feminist definition of ‘ state violence in the hands of men ’ ( p. 268 ) . |
| 19 | For instance , in a neat linguistic reversal , she argues against the radical feminist view of ‘ male violence in the hands of the state ’ , in favour of a socialist-feminist definition of ‘ state violence in the hands of men ’ ( p. 268 ) . |
| 20 | At a well-supported social evening , attended by the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress of Norwich , the Officer Commanding RAF Neatishead and representatives from RAF Coltishall , RAF Swanton Morley and RAFA Diss Branch , the Branch was pleased to receive the Senior Branch Efficiency Trophy from the hands of AVM N S Howlett . |
| 21 | It is said that there are exceptions to this rule and that the following persons can sue for trespass although they had not possession — ( a ) A trustee against any third person who commits a trespass to trust chattels in the hands of the beneficiary . |
| 22 | The language used in the authorities relating to the trustee is none too clear , but it indicates that the trustee has possession of chattels in the hands of the beneficiary , and not merely the right to possess them . |
| 23 | Thus a British colonial official in Nigeria commented as early as 1862 that press liberty was a ‘ dangerous instrument in the hands of semi-civilised negroes ’ . |
| 24 | This view of the foreign minister as a mere official , an instrument in the hands of his master , was fully shared by the tsars themselves . |
| 25 | About a hundred people work here now and the months in the hands of the administrators have left them fearful |
| 26 | ‘ Prior to and during the three game Honduras-EI Salvador series , for example , the press reported charges of ‘ mistreatment ’ of Honduras fans at the hands of El Salvadoreans and accusations of ‘ brutality ’ directed at players on both teams . ’ |
| 27 | Milan , who faltered at the weekend with a 3-0 defeat at the hands of the current league leaders , Napoli , have slipped to seventh place , partly because of the absence of van Basten and his compatriot , Ruud Gullit , who is seeing a doctor on Monday about his cartilage injury . |
| 28 | That would look too much like another Arab defeat at the hands of the West . |
| 29 | It was a frontier to the northeast for the Romans who had a camp here , Castra Bonnensia , where they suffered a defeat at the hands of the German tribes in AD 70 . |
| 30 | Doubters among the party 's membership will argue that the combined Brown and Tsongas vote against Mr Clinton confirms their fears that questions about his character will lead to a crushing defeat at the hands of President Bush . |