Example sentences of "on the other " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand it can bring about reconciliation between families and friends and a new appreciation of life 's true values . |
| 2 | Book-writers , Faussone says , produce works ‘ which may be beautiful and all that , but , on the other hand , even if they were a bit defective , excuse the expression , nobody would die , and the only loser is the customer who bought them ’ . |
| 3 | On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices . |
| 4 | ( On the other hand , plays like Tom Stoppard 's Jumpers or Max Frisch 's Andorra offer good opportunities for large numbers of students . ) |
| 5 | On the other hand , there was the nationalist theory of democracy , which derives power from the people and not from an élite group of religious intellectuals . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he wrote , if you do n't see this clearly at the start you only produce more crap and there 's enough in the world already . |
| 7 | I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order . |
| 8 | On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ . |
| 9 | There he was when I entered , on the other side of the glass . |
| 10 | I think you need something on the other panel , above the oculist charts , he said at last . |
| 11 | ‘ But even if you knew beforehand who was going to get — say — the fifth plate , how could you put poison on it and not on the other plates ? ’ |
| 12 | The boot was on the other foot then , was n't it ? |
| 13 | She stood for a moment on the other side of the room , sizing me up ( and me sizing her up ) , and then she came over to speak to me . |
| 14 | On the other side of the terrace a raised bed provides visual balance and accommodates a specimen juniper and winter flowering heathers . |
| 15 | On the other hand , aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases , and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the check for full and free movement must be done after strapping in , because it is possible in some aircraft to jam the controls by tightening the straps round a cable or control rod . |
| 17 | On the other hand , a tail-skid will not grip at all on tarmac , but is better on the grass or earth , particularly if it is soft . |
| 18 | Choosing a field some distance upwind on the other hand , is not such a good idea . |
| 19 | If it 's warm or it smoke is coming through , do n't open it , the fire is on the other side |
| 20 | No , a childminder can not normally take care of a sick child — it 's not fair on the other children in her care . |
| 21 | On the other hand , you 'll never know if you can do it till you try . |
| 22 | The detective on the other hand , immediately sets out to reduce these culturally created separations , for he needs to negotiate a statistical reality with the ‘ dirty prig opposition ’ . |
| 23 | On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score . |
| 24 | If , on the other hand , you have got into the semi-finals , you may consider a placing worth the risk of further pain . |
| 25 | He and his brother are going to organize the soundest folk among their cousins and get the word to the boys on the other side from Pitnacree up to Cluny . |
| 26 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 27 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 28 | She freewheeled into the village , pedalled doggedly through it , then tackled the hill on the other side . |
| 29 | On the other hand , materialists seem to be prevented by their materialism from allowing that there is any relevant fact that BS does not know . |
| 30 | We can have , then , an analogy between the natural languages that we think in ( English , Swahili … ) and the programming language , on the one hand , and the machine code and our ‘ language of thought ’ , on the other hand . |