Example sentences of "[adv] by hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | This would be easier to flat-pack and cost the maker exactly £22 , constructing it entirely by hand and purchasing all materials at retail prices from his local DIY store , thereby , I hoped , proving that a very comfortable profit could be made while still considerably undercutting the funeral directors . |
| 2 | In my apprenticeship days ( I am now 82 ) much of the work in the smaller workshops was made entirely by hand from deep sawing of heavy timber to cutting out dovetails and sticking mouldings . |
| 3 | Clearly an editor who knew his typography but one who never spotted that the publication was no longer being pasted together by hand — let alone produced at a mere 600 dots per inch . |
| 4 | In fact , there , that that , that 's that printing of s , that shape of s , followed by a t , was still used by some printers right up until the twentieth century , because it 's actually , you know that when when prints , print was put together by hand , by picking up each letter erm , and as assembling it separately , there was actually always a stop letter , a stop erm , I ca n't remember what it 's called , although I did some printing years ago , erm , lump a die thing with s t already printed together , because because s t is used so much in combination , the erm , printer did n't always have to set up s followed by a t , but had a rack of s t's already prepared and they were often , virtually joined together in this way , and erm , I got , I got an edition of I think it 's the novels of Jane Austen printed in the nineteen twenties which still use that shape of s t but used as the small s for any other forms . |
| 5 | The cutting process , together with a little heating , forces the whey to drain off , leaving huge banks of creamy curd that are turned constantly by hand until the acidity reaches the correct level . |
| 6 | 3 ) Whey is drained off during the cutting process , leaving banks of curd that are turned constantly by hand until the correct acidity level is finally achieved ( centre ) . |
| 7 | pulling the crude green tiles away by hand . |
| 8 | Sorting rubbish is still done largely by hand , often by low-paid or immigrant labour , and is filthy and dangerous work . |
| 9 | Complete removal of weeds , including all the roots , is important , preferably by hand or while digging ; incidentally , do remember that some of them may be the very plants you are intending to grow , though if the area contains horsetail it is better not to try growing perennial plants in it until you have been clearing out this weed for some years . |
| 10 | The engraving is also by hand on brass , filled with black wax , silvered and shellaced . |
| 11 | White gouache dots added later by hand |
| 12 | Colour can be added to a photocopied card in two ways : first , by using coloured paper — black ink even on cream or grey ( Figures 3 and 8 ) looks much less harsh than black on white — and second , by adding colour later by hand . |
| 13 | We washed six place settings ( one side plate , one dinner plate , one pudding bowl , one dessert plate for each setting , plus one large serving platter and three serving dishes ) , cutlery ( eight pieces for each place setting ) , six champagne , red wine and white wine glasses , a roasting tin , four saucepans , four serving spoons , a carving knife and fork , six coffee cups and saucers and a cafétière , both by hand and using a Bosch SMS 6032 dishwasher to compare use of water and detergents and the end results . |
| 14 | The next farm in place and that was dairy cattle , I had five cows to milk then by hand , but only in the morning . |
| 15 | The first morning we spent weaving with every other needle , laying the wool across by hand ! this put me off right away , because we were using punchcard machines , so nothing would have been easier than to slip in Card 1 and go ahead with our weaving without any trouble . |
| 16 | Wet sand can be moulded , either by hand or using buckets , spades or moulds . |
| 17 | Impressions and patterns may be made in the wet sand , either by hand or with the tools available . |
| 18 | Cut out the trapdoor either by hand or power saw . |
| 19 | The fibres are then spun , either by hand or machine , into a continuous threads , in the opposite direction to which they were spun , to form the yarn . |
| 20 | One or more faces are then lapped smooth either by hand or by an automatic lapping machine , using fine carborundum ( silicon carbide ) powder ( e.g. 600F grade ) . |
| 21 | By another of the technical innovations or borrowings which mark the art of this time , terracotta figurines and heads are no longer generally made freely by hand or turned on the wheel but pressed into moulds . |
| 22 | Then again by hand , knit two tubular rows on these same eight stitches . |
| 23 | The bones remaining within the intact pellets were found to be protected from weathering and after two years the pellets were taken apart by hand and the bones from them exposed again . |
| 24 | There were some bits the digger was in , but mostly by hand . |
| 25 | you may need to move the needles back a little by hand to knit the stitches off . |
| 26 | They can be performed relatively easily and effectively by hand . |
| 27 | Rectangle of cloth tipped on afterwards by hand . |
| 28 | Red gouache applied afterwards by hand . |