Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] [prep] [art] hands [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said that Mr Fontana had put his mandate back in the hands of the prime minister , Giuliano Amato . |
| 2 | ‘ We have had to beg , steal and borrow substantial funds to put the club back in the hands of the people of Peterborough , which is where it belongs , ’ commented Turner , who moves to the boardroom as chairman . |
| 3 | Rightly or wrongly , what chairmen want is to narrow ownership back into the hands of rich individuals . |
| 4 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 5 | The reply was , ‘ I fight to recover the King out of the hands of a popish malignant company . |
| 6 | We begin , however , with an examination of a recommendation which , when introduced , will take much of the control of pre-trial procedure out of the hands of the parties and place it under the control of the court . |
| 7 | Election Comment : Albany at Large : Bring back Tebbit THERE is just time for the Tories to take the direction of the election out of the hands of a lot of Central Office schoolboys and to make Norman Tebbit their supremo . |
| 8 | Unisys Corp , ICL and DEC were all very happy to see Unix out of the hands of AT&T/NCR . |
| 9 | In October 1861 he took the matter out of the hands of the old guard and transferred it to keen reformers . |
| 10 | He suggested that ethical committees could be set up across the country to provide an independent source of advice for doctors and families , taking the matter out of the hands of the courts . |
| 11 | He claims the problem is at an all-time high and that confiscated nets are finding their way back into the hands of poachers . |
| 12 | ‘ The question is , should we , for the good of the diocese , for the good indeed of the Church , keep knowledge of that problem out of the hands of the police or , at least , the press ? ’ |
| 13 | Once the transactions were over — transactions which had taken this house out of the hands of the Darlington family after two centuries — Mr Farraday let it be known that he would not be taking up immediate residence here , but would spend a further four months concluding matters in the United States . |
| 14 | All their Lordships need to say is that having carefully considered the arguments advanced , in the manner indicated by Griffiths L.J. , they can see no ground upon which Barnett J. would have been justified in taking the decision-making power out of the hands of the district judge , and substituting a decision of his own . |