Example sentences of "[adv] the [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the right hand , in the shape of Kenneth Baker , does not know what the left-hand , in the shape of the present health minister , Norman Fowler is up to ? |
| 2 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 3 | Daniele might be running the team for 1976 , but Niki and Clay Regazzoni had very much the upper hand . |
| 4 | Of course , intricate burnishing must be done manually , since only the human hand and eye can correctly judge the perfect level of finish . |
| 5 | At first they saw only the little hand — the fist , decomposed but stretching out of the shallow grave . |
| 6 | ‘ Only the left hand side of the carving knife touched the next piece of meat , while the right hand side had been neatly wiped on the outside piece , so everyone else 's meat was unaffected . ’ |
| 7 | The upper storey covered only the left hand side of the ground floor and it was up there that vehicle bodies took shape . |
| 8 | Take a clean sheet of paper and use only the left hand side . |
| 9 | Instead of hanging the whole of the weight , hang only the left hand hook of the weight , placing it on the right hand stitch about two rows from the top of the knitting . |
| 10 | ‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand . |
| 11 | ‘ The Three Holy Kings — March ’ strides out a first with gallant confidence , but very soon the left hand accompaniments grow even more daring and complex in harmony . |
| 12 | Thus the dead hand of the past presses heavily on the head of the present and gives corporate criminals a genuine sense of irresponsibility because they feel the corporation acting through them as mere passive intermediaries . |
| 13 | Oh , that 's just the upper hand is n't it . |
| 14 | So , Pomerance argued it should be easier to process just the right hand signal if they 're not grouped together , if they if the processing system does n't tend to group them as a single entity . |
| 15 | I was so shaken up and upset I did not get to say thank you or even see his face , just the helpful hand outstretched to me . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order . |
| 17 | For slip and tuck , the correct light is usually the right hand light . |
| 18 | one , two , three , ah , ah , ah , that 's the , still the same hand there , you have to do two with that hand and then two with that one |
| 19 | Thereafter the tight hand of regional regulation ensured that the first set of " block " contracts followed the previous year 's referral patterns and volumes of work , as the DOH exhorted a " smooth takeoff " and " steady state " . |
| 20 | Mr Brown stressed : ‘ We reject both the dead hand of the command economy and the invisible hand of the untrammelled market . ’ |
| 21 | But it was n't true ; today the invisible hand of fate seemed to be drawing a thick black line under that particular chapter of her life which involved anything related to Luke . |
| 22 | They practised , as Lucien always had , without music , scorning even the metronomic hand drums that other Ixmaritians favoured . |
| 23 | ( Repeat process — GUIL taps one hand , then the other hand , quickly . |
| 24 | In all 15 sign languages HELP was signed with the right hand lifting and moving forward the left hand , forearm or elbow . |