Example sentences of "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 | Most Super-Sprinter services are based on hourly or two-hourly clock-face timings , and a feature of their operation has been their reliability , much in the face of opposition from traditional railway operators who originally rejected out of hand the idea that end-on services could be linked up without transferring delays from one part of the system to another . |
| 3 | On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | On the other hand the material which Eliot had put into Pound 's hands turned out to be so inchoate that many readers were led to wonder how far the poem as they had it all these years was in any authentic sense Eliot 's at all . |
| 6 | On the other hand The Young Riders came 51st in the ratings in its first week , trailing far , far behind all the modern myths about modern times such as The Cosby Show , Roseanne , Golden Girls , Cheers and Matlock . |
| 7 | This lot have been brought into the barn for a rest , ’ indicating with his hand the others who had by this time fallen asleep , oblivious to the noise of the guns and the explosions very close to the barn . |
| 8 | On the one hand the world of normality and conformity is stridently affirmed . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They were going to the home of opera , to listen to some Verdi , Puccini and Donizetti ; and to see at first hand the fine art and architecture that he had studied and only previously heard about or seen in books . |
| 14 | Some will argue that it was the decade when ‘ real ’ music was murdered by Stock , Aitken & Waterman or rap , but on the other hand the ‘ real ’ musician of mature years had never had it so good-Chris De Burgh , Fleetwood Mac and Eric Clapton never sold so many tickets , or so many records . |
| 15 | She wondered , if Mr Brown were able to get them back , would he want them , or had he now grown too accustomed to his hand the way it was ? |
| 16 | Disappointment ! dash not from my trembling hand the bowl which almost touches my lips . |
| 17 | On the other hand the boys ' expedition had occurred only yesterday … dear God , only yesterday … and if … when … |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You can count on the fingers of one hand the times Mr Kinnock has jumped in among the public . |
| 20 | SCHOOLCHILDREN in a pit village are experiencing first hand the Victorian values much loved by certain politicians . |
| 21 | One of the men , Declan Derek Duffy , 19 , known as ‘ Wacko , ’ has tattooed on his left hand the initials INLA — standing for Irish National Liberation Army which has claimed responsibility for the murder of Sgt Michael Newman , 34 . |
| 22 | He is extensively tattooed , with one on his right forearm of a rifle and a red star and on his left hand the initials INLA . |
| 23 | But , indeed , the whole general effect is to divorce Resident Tutors from the WEA ; the Resident Tutor would be excluded from urban areas , while on the other hand the WEA would be to say the least of it extremely circumscribed in rural areas . |
| 24 | On the other hand the newer full-time farmers , with large loans to repay , as well as many of the part-time farmers , were initially just looking for the farm to pay its way . |
| 25 | On the other hand the dairying areas — Cumbria , Derbyshire , Powys and South Wales — had a more even labour requirement . |
| 26 | On the other hand the response to the use of video was astonishing . |
| 27 | On the other hand the EEC Nine produces only 64% of its consumption of sheep meat and it is generally assumed that the UK with approximately 25% of the EEC sheep flock and as the leading producer of 50% of Community production is well placed to reap some advantage which could be of benefit to the hills and upland areas . |
| 28 | Sheltering it with a hand the colour of yellow smoke , she shuffled across to the table by the far wall and lit the candle . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For companies seeking to develop an existing export market , or to examine a new one at first hand the IDB organises a series of trade missions to a wide variety of locations including Europe , Scandinavia , the Americas and the Far East . |