Example sentences of "a [adv] [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such antiquarian interest in the past laid a rather deadening hand upon contemporary sculptors . |
| 2 | ‘ Where are you off to then ? ’ said Tina , laying a rather floury hand on Cecilia 's sleeve . |
| 3 | Willie returned to the dots and apart from the occasional wobble he wrote ‘ William ’ in a remarkably smooth hand . |
| 4 | The detail of planning legislation by and large fell to a number of able officials who had a remarkably free hand . |
| 5 | a little second hand . |
| 6 | you know , so erm , I , I think a little left hand practice would solve it , I noticed that you put a five on that , I think it 's better if you put a four . |
| 7 | If you set out with the idea of generating more clubhead speed by delaying the hit or the release of the hands , you must balance this with a much faster hand and arm action through impact . |
| 8 | Susan punched through the metal and pinched the fire out with a suddenly spade-sized hand . |
| 9 | Mistaking her refusal , Andrew put back a less prudent hand to find it struck away smartly as she retreated from the arm round her shoulders . |
| 10 | he 's got a totally short hand you know well , yeah |
| 11 | Jeane Russell also cuddled up to Judi , patting a shoulder with a diaphanously gloved hand . |
| 12 | She pushed a slightly unsteady hand through her shoulder-length cloud of freshly washed curls , and fervently wished herself elsewhere . |
| 13 | With a slightly shaky hand I tool hold of the pendant hanging around my neck and pressed its jewels in a certain way . |
| 14 | The Sikh pattern-cutter 's abdomen is examined with a distinctly shaky hand that tries to elicit the signs of a possible perforated ulcer as his family of six stare on with fixed incomprehension . |
| 15 | Got a bleeding lunatic hand I 've got ! |
| 16 | It took Mr Gorbachev a year or two to perceive that he held a hopelessly weak hand — that the Soviet Union could not possibly match the enormous economic and technological resources Mr Reagan commanded and was prepared to employ , including the much-maligned Strategic Defence Initiative , which Mr Shultz strongly supported . |
| 17 | Although the House of Lords has allowed the BBC and ITN broadcasters a fairly free hand when filming their House , the 1988–89 Committee was much more cautious and imposed rules almost as restrictive as those in Canada ( despite , one might think , its own visit there ) . |
| 18 | Insofar as this affected the ECSC negotiations , it gave West Germany a far stronger hand and enabled its negotiators to resist some of the French demands , especially those which were aimed at a deconcentration and decartelisation of West Germany 's heavy industries , and to pursue more urgently its own point of view on the future of the Saar . |
| 19 | It gives him a far freer hand than other techniques in the description of long , curving lines , which are , for example , difficult to execute with a stylus on metal . |
| 20 | She waved a perfectly manicured hand at a bucket of wine-bottles . |
| 21 | His single-breasted suit was made of mohair and he flicked a trace of ash off his trousers with a perfectly manicured hand . |
| 22 | Come now , whatever you may have heard of me , this is a perfectly ordinary hand , not a centaur 's hoof or a goblin 's claw . ’ |
| 23 | On the other , if you bluff against an opponent who has a really good hand you may end up very much worse off than if you had decided to throw in your bad hand before you had raised the bet too far . |
| 24 | Lorimer had been enchanted by her apparent demure silence and , later , following a particularly emphatic hand gesture on Cleo 's part , had escorted her outside . |
| 25 | In the dresser drawer was a freshly severed hand , all bloody at the roots . |
| 26 | Fran struggled briefly , but soon gave up the uneven match , letting herself rest against his chest while he stroked her hair with a surprisingly gentle hand . |
| 27 | In an attempt to remove the influence of the janissaries from Istanbul , where they naturally formed a powerful opposition to his reforms , Mahmud tried to buy them off by offering them a virtually free hand in garrisoning the remote provinces of the empire . |
| 28 | There are obviously many reasons for the conjunction of forces which produced its institutions and these must include the Reithian spirit ( described above ) , a political system secure enough to grant broadcasting a relatively free hand and the absence ( or the negation ! ) of deep social divisions . |
| 29 | The new presidents therefore had a relatively free hand to implement reforms . |
| 30 | The 1947 Electricity Act laid down in some detail procedures for matters such as capital authorisations from the Ministry and the relative spheres of interest of Central Authority and Area Boards , but on the major questions of business policy the industry had a relatively free hand , subject only to a requirement to consult the Minister on matters of broad policy . |