Example sentences of "one hand the " in BNC.

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1 On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night .
2 What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ .
3 On the one hand the world of normality and conformity is stridently affirmed .
4 For one thing , as Jardine points out , while on the one hand the shift of wealth to the mercantile classes was leading to the break-up of the dress code , and enabling the socially mobile to appropriate , for purposes of inclusion , what were supposed to be signs of their exclusion , it was also the case that those who had ‘ arrived ’ socially often wanted to enforce the code against those who had not .
5 Such experiences of sexual liberation bear witness to the socially constructed ‘ nature ’ of identity with respect both to its contingency and its resilience : on the one hand the self can be and is experienced as radically different in the space of the other ; on the other hand it the extinction of self is the precondition of passing into the ecstasy with and through the other , it is an extinction which has to be replayed over and again as a constitutive part of sexual ecstasy itself .
6 What Marx was trying to do in constructing the Asiatic system was to reconcile , on the one hand the reports of the strength of the village communities which characterized many of the accounts of Asian villages and which was manifested in their apparent ability to act organically , for example in the close co-operation and mutual reasonableness required in irrigated agriculture , and , on the other hand , a traditional view of the despotism of oriental rulers , a view which dominated European pictures of the Orient , at least since the time of Montesquieu .
7 On the one hand the dispute was escalating through mass action into a head-on dispute with the government and employers ; on the other hand , the trade union leadership with their job of negotiating ( or compromising ) between the workers and the bosses were becoming redundant .
8 At this point in the debate a public bunfight has arisen between , on the one hand the authors of the Coopers & Lybrand report on Tuesday that warned of a ‘ fiscal reality gap ’ and a public sector borrowing requirement soaring way above Tory and Labour projections ( about which this column warned last week ) and those who believe this takes too gloomy a view of prospects .
9 You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public .
10 On one hand the public demands ever more complex and advanced technology while at the same time mistrusting and denigrating the scientific/technological base that helps to produce today 's high standard of living in the developed world .
11 For many years the arguments for access to information have emphasised on the one hand the private values of privacy and autonomy and on the other hand the public values of democratic involvement in decision making .
12 On both occasions she had been struck by the contrast between on the one hand the beauty of the Bay itself , the islands , the fine buildings towards Posillipo and on the other the cramped and jumbled desperation of the mean and bustly streets immediately below her .
13 Thus it was welcomed because it seemed to bring together on the one hand the idealized liberalism of the l960s and 1970s — when pupils and teachers hoped to romp together through an uninhibited dance of individualized learning , projects , pupil-centred learning-situations , and an end to authoritarian concepts of knowledge — with , on the other hand , the 1980s demand for ‘ standards ’ .
14 On the one hand the successful teacher has an infectious enthusiasm for parts of the information , ideas and skills which continue to underpin their original and continuing role as an artist , an historian , a scientist or whatever .
15 I can count on the fingers of one hand the days when the weather was pleasant during my ten months there .
16 It does not require much imagination on the part of a person contemplating , on the one hand the evolutionary product that is the marvellous human body , and on the other hand the mess that is religious history , to bring his agreement with this .
17 On the one hand the sheer weight of new product can actually wear away at one 's critical faculties so that any performance which maintains a reasonable degree of well engineered accuracy gets a thumbs-up .
18 On the one hand the UK business entering EC markets is acting as a poacher in what has traditionally been regarded as territory belonging to other EC businesses .
19 The child holds the tubes in one hand the other is free .
20 On the one hand the approach I am proposing would lead the learners to realize ( in the sense of actualize ) grammatical potential in contexts of use , that is to say that it would lead to effective behaviour .
21 In the light of these facts , the interesting question is whether there exists any relationship between the two triads — on the one hand the abolition of private property , religion and the family and on the other economic inefficiency , religious persecution and political terror .
22 She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed having on the premises ; most of her other visitors she merely tolerated and a few of them had the power to make her feel violated .
23 In place of God-consciousness , for which he had little time , he wanted to put on the one hand the revelation made in Jesus and recoverable through the historical study of the New Testament , and on the other the moral and spiritual response to Jesus which issues in Christian living and acting .
24 These conditions of the possibility of Christian theology were on the one hand the actuality of the revelation in Jesus , and on the other the reception of that revelation in faith empowered by the Holy Spirit .
25 On the one hand the balance of tritium in the warhead pit , and on the other the weight of the carbon casing on the protective shield of the warhead .
26 On the one hand the ‘ official ’ crime that correctionalists were bent on correcting was either authentic working-class rebellion or an irrelevance blown up out of all proportion by the agents of capitalism for their own malevolent purposes .
27 Thus on the one hand the liberal , free economy strategy is evidenced in the non-censorship of all but the most extreme pornography and the encouragement of commercial values in broadcasting , which is likely to mean decreased control over pornographic images , while on the other the strong state strategy is evidenced by that hard core pornography is not open to direct viewing by the public and by the appointment of censorious watchdogs over the BBC .
28 For on the one hand the Athenian type of behaviour might seem to be quite incompatible with local state obligations in law and electorally to majority , articulated , social interests .
29 In the range £20 — £39 a clear majority of people were taxed on goods , many not owning any land at all , and since personal property at this level was insufficient to confer gentry status , members of the group occupied an intermediate position , lacking on the one hand the landed property necessary for gentlemen ; they were , on the other hand , judged competent to pay tax at the same rate as gentlemen , making them men of undeniable substance in comparison with the rank and file of country folk .
30 So it 's a kind of a strange argument to suggest on the one hand the Vienna settlement was a factor in in preventing wars between all the great , er major war involving all the great powers .
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