Example sentences of "[adj] in [art] hands [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dancers and music then swell to fill the stage again , ultimately to depart all sorrow spent with the child-like figure lifted high in the hands of one man and carried away out of sight whilst another dancer kneels low in homage as the music resolves the picture into a great Amen . |
| 2 | They are costly and highly dangerous in the hands of those who might use them for the destruction of life . ’ |
| 3 | Our defence would be unsafe in the hands of the opposition parties . |
| 4 | The regulations anticipated under s11(1) will have the purpose of securing : ( a ) that goods to which this section applies are safe ; ( b ) that goods to which this section applies which are unsafe , or would be unsafe in the hands of persons of a particular description , are not made available to persons generally or , as the case may be , to persons of that description ; and ( c ) that appropriate information is , and inappropriate information is not , provided in relation to goods to which this section applies . |
| 5 | The crossbow , most useful in defence when the crossbowman , who needed protection for the time required to wind up his weapon , could hide himself behind a wall , was an elitist weapon , most effective in the hands of Gascons , who fought in Wales for Edward I , and of Genoese , a large contingent of whom fought on the French side at Crécy . |
| 6 | The driving system , then , is crucial in making a program that will be effective in the hands of a lot of teachers . |
| 7 | ( Unfortunately , the fact that many projects have produced attractive material which is extremely effective in the hands of some teachers but that has not been widely successful may reasonably be interpreted either as an aim- or a style-mismatch , or as a dissemination problem . ) |
| 8 | He was aware that his powers were limited : ‘ The civil service , the police , the judiciary , defence and external affairs were all in the hands of the Governor and … all decisions thereon had to come from Whitehall ’ ( p. 147 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ And , anyhow , it 's all in the hands of the Jews ! ’ he told me . |
| 10 | Most impressive is the ‘ Hestia Giustiniani ’ ( fig. 76 ; the best known copy was long in the hands of the Giustiniani , and the statue certainly represents a goddess , though perhaps rather Demeter , Hera or even Aphrodite than the rarely represented Hestia ) . |
| 11 | The case of the Tari Furora paralleled that of the Melanesians in ‘ Marie Lloyd ’ , but it is to his ideal City , and his actual urban Western civilization that Eliot relates this Papuan discovery : ‘ … if we are so helpless in the hands of our ‘ civilization ’ that we admit our inability to prevent it from ruining Papuans , what hope have we of saving ourselves ? ’ |
| 12 | These conspiracies were broken by the government , inefficient though it was , leaving the initiative in 1820 in the hands of the military Masonry . |
| 13 | The result , which can be a subtle amalgam of tonality and atonality , is singularly beautiful in the hands of composers such as Berg and Dallapiccola . |
| 14 | Does he believe that it would be safe in the hands of Members of Parliament who continually carp and criticise ? |
| 15 | Would it be safe in the hands of a party two thirds of whose members are committed to one-sided nuclear disarmament ? |
| 16 | One of the key themes of the campaign was the degree to which the country 's recently re-established democratic process would be safe in the hands of any of the traditional party leaders , all of whom were widely perceived as personifying a political culture traditionally steeped in patronage and money . |
| 17 | Its mines , for instance , were worth more in the hands of RTZ , which bought them . |
| 18 | He unnerves and often offends colleagues on the Legislative Council , many of whom believe their institution is safer in the hands of appointees and amateurs than of populists . |
| 19 | Below : Ferrari 312T5 looked spectacular in the hands of Villeneuve and Scheckter but the other cars were quicker without the histrionics |
| 20 | As far as winning in style is concerned , Scotland can be sure their future is secure in the hands of David Sole . |
| 21 | I feel I am at last in the hands of someone who will bring me back to health , to life . |