Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [prep] [art] hands [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communications , security and the maintenance of the entire complex were in the hands of Russian officers under contract to the Iraqi government . |
| 2 | Whether the law is on Venables ' side is in the hands of the judge . |
| 3 | More than 75 per cent of the equity is in the hands of professional investors , many of them through Swiss nominee names . |
| 4 | The council 's Labour leadership , who have been in control since 1986 , have argued that they had no control over the transactions as the day to day running of the finance department is in the hands of expert financial staff . |
| 5 | Where after a full dissolution the winding up of the practice is in the hands of some only of the former partners an allowance may be made to them in recognition of their efforts before the net profits are determined for the purposes of this section or otherwise . |
| 6 | The patronage is in the hands of the Prime Minister who may from time to time invite leaders of opposition parties to propose names . |
| 7 | Should business leaders be bracing themselves for a wave of intervention now that the Department of Trade & Industry is in the hands of Michael Heseltine ? |
| 8 | In common with most Third World countries , the pharmaceutical industry is in the hands of multinational companies and there is no effective quality control over their products . |
| 9 | In Liverpool , where it had a branch , it was condemned as an organisation " whose administration is in the hands of boarding masters and which fails to inspire the respect of the labouring community " . |
| 10 | Rents are kept to a reasonable level to enable as many people as possible to benefit , and the maintenance is in the hands of a committee who hold regular fund-raising events . |
| 11 | If a rating or precepting authority over-rated or over-precepted , the remedy was in the hands of the electorate … |
| 12 | Their future was in the hands of pre-teen and teenage crews as the RYA 's Stuart Jardine and Jim Saltonstall , senior racing coach , stalked them round the lake to see how they performed . |
| 13 | The ceremony was in the hands of Mr Alexander Dubcek , who came in from the political cold less than 24 hours before , to be elected head of the new-style Federal Assembly . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Sica believed that the direction of organized crime was in the hands of no more than 17 men whose names were known to the authorities , and that if those individuals could be convicted the Mafia would collapse . |
| 15 | A large part of hostel administration was in the hands of volunteers who were themselves refugees . |
| 16 | The Independent reported on the same day that control of Kuwait 's security and administration was in the hands of Ali Hasan al Majid , Iraq 's Minister of Local Government and architect of the government 's 1987-88 military campaign against Kurdish rebels . |
| 17 | The bills of lading covering the cargo were in the hands of a Madame Bihi who was the accredited Ambassador of the Republic of Somalia to the United Nations Organisations in Geneva . |
| 18 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 19 | The day-to-day management is in the hands of the managing director , and if the number of members or the importance of the functions of the association or its character justifies it , a supervisory board may be created . |
| 20 | The direction of the Council is in the hands of The Executive . |
| 21 | The direction of the Council is in the hands of The Executive . |
| 22 | The administrative receivership is in the hands of Touche Ross , who will continue to run the company as a going concern with a view to finding a new buyer from the majority shareholder , Bob Curry . |
| 23 | Certainly , concentrated wealth is in the hands of the few , and the separation of ownership and management has been excessively overstated ; it is the upper and upper-middle classes who own and manage , if not together , then within a class . |
| 24 | The pope was the greatest intermediary in western Christendom , and much diplomatic intercourse was in the hands of papal legates , bishops and clerks at this time . |
| 25 | The firing hole of the kiln was temporarily blocked with bricks and clay and the control of the burn was in the hands of the ganger . |
| 26 | Then it was time to cast off and manoeuvre gently away from the dock.We were at last ready to head down the River Severn and onwards into the Bristol Channel.Our safe passage was in the hands of Severn pilot Pete Tippet : |
| 27 | They had no estates of any size there , and although the king 's representative in Bordeaux and a number of high officials were English , the government of the duchy was in the hands of the Gascons and places in the Church were filled by Gascon prelates . |
| 28 | The context of each story in the Gospel was in the hands of the author himself . |
| 29 | During the 16th century the mill was in the hands of various members of the Hone family , later passing to the clothier , Thomas Tayloe , from whom the mill took one of its best-remembered names . |
| 30 | Slade Mill was in the hands of Edward William Cook from the 1890s , up to the First World War . |