Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [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 As her finger jabbed the button , suddenly a firm hand was on her sleeve .
11 Suddenly a heavy hand whacked him in the shoulder blades .
12 ‘ We had more or less a free hand .
13 In 1986 , Christopher Lewinton was appointed as chief executive with more or less a free hand to do whatever he felt necessary .
14 The poker player puts together a winning hand .
15 ‘ The real thing that shocks me is my own stupidity , ’ Sabine said curtly , brushing away the caressing hand .
16 ‘ 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 .
17 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 .
18 Oh , that 's just the upper hand is n't it .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 Meanwhile the left hand plays the same rhythms in the opposite order .
22 ‘ I 'm just a hired hand .
23 Just a warm hand holding hers .
24 But I guess it was just a lucky hand . ’
25 Conversely a limp hand in the wash basin and the inevitable question : ‘ Have you had your holidays yet ? ’ will guarantee you a despair which ca n't be dispelled until your head is safely home and inside a bucket of water .
26 For slip and tuck , the correct light is usually the right hand light .
27 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
28 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 " .
29 Mr Brown stressed : ‘ We reject both the dead hand of the command economy and the invisible hand of the untrammelled market . ’
30 The examiner is probably an old hand at the game .
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