Example sentences of "[Wh det] be [prep] the hands " in BNC.
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| 1 | The court ordered the original bills of lading , which were in the hands of B. , the ambassador of the Republic of Somalia appointed to the United Nations Organisation by the former government , to be placed in court to facilitate the sale of the cargo and for the net proceeds of sale to be paid into court . |
| 2 | Because the additional quantity of products which must flow into our heavy industry has to be taken from outside , not from within the sphere of heavy industry itself , which is in the hands of the workers ' state , but from elsewhere , from other external sources , whatever the price we have to pay . |
| 3 | Multi-millionaire Roy Breuhat , who is based in Guernsey , has taken the first steps towards taking over the financially-stricken First Division club , which is in the hands of a receiver . |
| 4 | It divides the north , controlled by warlord Mohamed Ali Mahdi , and the south , which is in the hands of his rival General Mohamed Farah Aideed . |
| 5 | The transmission design and construction function ( which was in the hands of a centralised headquarters group inherited from the CEB ) was a model of efficiency , but the power station side posed more serious problems . |
| 6 | He ‘ used much pains ’ in raising forces to attack the Royalists in Sherborne ; but his military career came to an ignominious end with the failure of his assault on Corfe Castle , which was in the hands of Mary , Lady Bankes [ q.v. ] , and her Amazonian maidservants . |