Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 2 | This manuscript , it emerges , has been placed in the hands of a Californian academic , Jonathan Pons , by the ‘ master of Latin American realism ’ , Valentin Sadaba , whose dismissal of it as possibly ‘ one more sad attempt by an Englishman to emulate the Latin storytellers ’ alerts us to its dubious status and authorship . |
| 3 | Moreover , much of the day-to-day administration has been placed in the hands of salaried officials with the specialized knowledge required to understand the complexities of modern local government administration . |
| 4 | As the radiation decreases by the square of the distance to the source , the highest radiation doses are received by the hands of the investigator . |
| 5 | Again , the same question may be asked as that which I have asked in relation to Schüssler Fiorenza 's work : given that in every age women have been mistreated at the hands of men , how much do present-day women really have in common with biblical women ? |
| 6 | we 're making on the hand tools , things like that er , works with our account money , cos you get a thirty day account . |
| 7 | But love them or leave them , it 's best they 're kept in the hands of the experts . |
| 8 | You are betrayed into the hands of Winter . |
| 9 | Erm so what I 'm saying is that there is a partnership between the states and the federal government , there is no single fixed correct relationship between the central government and the state government , it changes from time to time er more and more of the cards are coming to the hands of the central government but you would , you would be wise not to underestimate the independence and the diversity of the American states which have a , a genuine er sense of , of local er democracy and difference er and states very frequently resist the federal government . |
| 10 | Apart from Unwins and Davisons , both independent , and Oddbins , wine arm of the giant Canadian whisky corporation Seagram , the major high-street chains are concentrated in the hands of big brewers : Whitbread ( Thresher ) , Allied-Lyons ( Victoria Wine ) , Grand Metropolitan/Watneys ( Peter Dominic ) and Bass ( Augustus Barnett ) . |
| 11 | One , is there not a way in which your good tool could be perverted , and two , since this tool must inevitably be given into the hands of the people you despise for their aggressiveness and bad inheritance and rearing , how do you expect them to use it ? |
| 12 | Elsewhere there was no need to set up special bodies , but it is clear that much local administration had in practice to be devolved into the hands of local men . |
| 13 | Ministerial responsibility for running the higher courts , both civil and criminal , should in future be placed in the hands of the Lord Chancellor . |
| 14 | This also permits the company 's affairs to be placed in the hands of those who are equipped with the special abilities and skills which are necessary for effective management and which many shareholders may not themselves possess ’ . |
| 15 | Advocates of the view that primary education should be placed in the hands of the clergy failed to win their case , but priests were given entire control of religious instruction and assigned a major role in the new provincial schools councils . |
| 16 | When serious consequences can follow from human errors , e.g. in flying an aircraft , or when on-line operation is too expensive to be trusted to the hands of trainees , e.g. in process control , there is obviously a case for providing training devices which simulate the performance of on-line systems . |
| 17 | It was DaSilva was n't it , who lucky not to er to be rattled on the hand by that . |
| 18 | The sad truth and emptiness of palmistry can be seen in the hand lines of many elderly , but still lively , people today . |
| 19 | Whereupon Mr Gamage himself appeared and stated that he was fully prepared to be shot in the hand from close range , in the full view of the court , in order to defend his honour and his business interests . |
| 20 | But the weight of the clubhead can only be felt through the hands and fingers since this is the only part of the body in contact with the club . |
| 21 | Really soft metals like pure gold , silver and base lead can easily be sheared in the hands . |
| 22 | Fingerspelling requires an unambiguous representation of each letter of the alphabet in order that words from the spoken language can be produced on the hands letter by letter . |
| 23 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 24 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 25 | Otherwise too much power would be concentrated in the hands of one organ and this would lead to tyranny . |
| 26 | The processes entailed in referral and admission are less accessible at the Delphi Centre because they tend to be concentrated in the hands of Roger himself ; decisions are often made instantaneously , without consultation and frequently in the course of a telephone conversation . |
| 27 | The Labour im ownership of the mass media tends to be concentrated in the hands of a few companies . |
| 28 | Make up the mortar to the consistency of sand pies , so it can be moulded in the hands . |
| 29 | Whether or not methodological individualists subscribe to such views , for them , the important point is that the levers of power are to be found in the hands of strategically placed individuals or groups . |
| 30 | Bolingbroke in 1711 – 14 , Stanhope in 1714 – 21 , the elder Pitt in 1756 – 61 , were all clear cases of this ; and in 1771 , and again ten years later , George III — the most efficiency-minded English ruler for three centuries — pressed for the conduct of foreign policy to be unified in the hands of a single secretary . |