Example sentences of "[pron] hands the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the latter looked on politics and politicians with a jaundiced eye and held in their hands the means of destroying ill-prepared , amateurish candidates . |
| 2 | The control of the landlords and the labradores over municipal government completed their monopoly by giving into their hands the only other surplus land — the municipal commons — which became , according to reforming bureaucrats , ‘ the private patrimony of the town counsellors ’ . |
| 3 | It may be too great a temptation to human frailty , apt to grasp at power , for the same persons who have the power of making laws , to have also in their hands the power to execute them , whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make , and suit the law , both in its making and execution , to their own private advantage . |
| 4 | It was held that the defendant was guilty , since in raising their hands the members of the audience were engaging in competitive bidding — namely in competing against one another for the chance of getting in first by raising a hand before anyone else or for the chance of attracting the defendant 's favour in selecting the lucky buyer . |
| 5 | They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note . |
| 6 | By 1901 there were just over 10,000 ministers at work in England and Wales into whose hands the faithful could , if they wanted , surrender their consciences . |
| 7 | When this failed , the Scots withdrew from England , after having their expenses paid by Parliament , in whose hands the King was left . |
| 8 | Sir , — I am indebted to Mrs Swindin for her lucid article of May 10 , in which she explains in whose hands the Suffolk County Council has been in until quite recently . |
| 9 | When the French nobility , in whose hands the resolution of such a crisis lay , made its choice , that choice was to make one of their number , Philip , count of Valois , king . |
| 10 | A parade of martyred scientists would show by whose hands the real errors had been committed . |
| 11 | They argue that ‘ directors and top executives , in whose hands the major strategic decisions lie , are , in fact , owners of large stockholdings themselves ’ . |
| 12 | But it is likely to prove empty in the end , even if the workers are right in thinking that , at this stage , they have nothing to lose and that a threat to withdraw their labour might help their union representatives wring a few more concessions from those in whose hands the firm 's fate now rests . |
| 13 | Here in Cheshire business men are nervously waiting to meet the business angels is whom hands the future of their company might rest . |
| 14 | In his hands the concerto was over-dramatic , his tendency in the louder passages to attack the keys from some height with a hard pecking action , and to shorten the staccato and overdo the sforzandi , being foreign to Beethoven 's style . |
| 15 | IT IS pretty rare to come across a football manager brave enough to hold up his hands the day after a beating and invite criticism . |
| 16 | Peters saw their reactions and knew instinctively that he was going to have one hell of a fight on his hands the next day to convince the committee of his vehicle division proposals . |
| 17 | ‘ The Yugoslav Army has never fired on the people , ’ Col Budimir Mladenovic said when confronted by an angry Muslim villager who held in his hands the remains of an Army issue mortar shell . |
| 18 | In his hands the Scherzo , which like all Chopin 's Scherzos is in rapid triple time , becomes a compelling answer to Liszt 's Mephisto Waltz ( written so many years later ) . |
| 19 | He felt with his hands the smooth , sleepy flesh and she took his mouth on hers , himself into her . |
| 20 | In his hands the existing contrast between the building 's industrial past and the immutability of the landscape would be sharpened into a creative expression of striking proportions . |
| 21 | He said huskily , ‘ Let me , McAllister , ’ and began to unbutton her blouse , ‘ I want to stroke you , McAllister , and not your clothes , ’ and she made no effort to stop him , and when he bent his head to kiss the breasts he had fondled with his hands the cry which she gave was one of pleasure , not fear , for now it was Dr Neil loving her so carefully that the flood of pleasure was almost on her from that alone . |
| 22 | Yet for more than three months he has had in his hands the report by the Select Committee on Members ' Interests which recommends changes in the registration of commercial lobbying interests . |
| 23 | To go to the one man in the world most interested in seeing that the evidence never came out and then to put into his hands the means of ensuring that it never could come out ! |
| 24 | But you see the important thing about this scene is not what is taking place there it 's not really that Pilate is standing in , in the trial as the judge of Jesus , it 's not that Pilate has i , within his hands the power of life and death for Jesus , that 's not the important issue , that 's not the real significance of this incident , the real significance is that every one of us at some time or other stand in the same place that Pilate stood . |
| 25 | He still has Jesus on his hands the position is the same for every non-christian , for every unconverted person you still have Jesus on your hand you ca n't get rid of him that easily . |
| 26 | ‘ We have in our hands the letter of donation signed by Dr Kramar and the testimonies of many people from Prague art circles of the 1940s and 1950s ’ , Dr Lubomir Slavicek told The Art Newspaper shortly before his dismissal as director of the National Gallery in February . |