Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] of the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | In higher education a new central body is proposed to take control over polytechnics out of the hands of local authorities . |
| 2 | The second circumstance is that planning legislation has given the Secretary of State the power to take applications out of the hands of local planning authorities and to decide them himself . |
| 3 | " A Great Russian " put out a flysheet in St Petersburg in July 1861 which argued that " The educated classes must take the conduct of affairs out of the hands of the incapable government and into their own " ; otherwise , " patriots will be compelled to call upon the people to do what the educated classes refuse to do " . |
| 4 | Reform might come from Parliament simply taking the calculation of damages out of the hands of juries , and allowing judges to develop reasonably predictable scales for assessment after the jury has indicated whether damages in the particular case should be substantial , moderate , nominal or contemptuous . |
| 5 | A useful initiative taken at this time was the establishment of the Great Britain-East Europe Centre , designed to take cultural relations out of the hands of the ‘ Friendship Societies ’ which had restricted visitors from the ‘ People 's Democracies ’ to contact with groups of fellow-travellers in this country . |
| 6 | BRITISH AEROSPACE believes that by taking decisions out of the hands of the pilot it can reduce the amount of noise that an aircraft makes . |
| 7 | The Stamp Tax was introduced in 1712 and kept newspapers out of the hands of the masses for more than 100 years until arguments about the role of the press in a free society forced its abolition in 1855 , and the popular press really took off . |
| 8 | They are proposing a scheme for keeping foreign , defence and home-office issues out of the hands of EC institutions and subject to control by European summits . |
| 9 | Supply would be regulated by a system of government licences analogous to those already in force for tobacco and alcohol ( and which would serve , among other things , to keep drugs out of the hands of children ) , backed by strict policing and heavy penalties . |
| 10 | A MAJOR drive to keep drugs and medicines out of the hands of children has been launched in Essex . |