Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [num ord] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many years later Braque recalled how strong an impression tribal art made on him , it is hard to see any direct reflection of this in the paintings executed at the time when Picasso was reacting so positively to tribal sculpture ; even in a painting like the Nu any influence from tribal art seems to have come at second hand , through Picasso 's Demoiselles . |
| 2 | There is an excellent chapter ‘ Must I exercise ? ’ which boasts a complimentary piece written from first hand experience , on the Medau method . |
| 3 | ‘ I have seen at first hand her effect on people young and old . |
| 4 | When you 've lived around men like that for as long as I have , when you 've seen at first hand what they 're capable of , then you can come here and tell me how to handle my affairs . |
| 5 | An arrangement may be made so that you look at only one person who ‘ interprets ’ what is said , through writing or clear speech , but awareness of the ‘ feel ’ of the meeting and possible eye contact can not be easily conveyed at second hand . |
| 6 | They are contrasted with secondary sources , which are data got at second hand ; i.e. sets of data culled from other people 's original data . |
| 7 | Transfer 's fifth show is based on first hand accounts of women working in the health services . |
| 8 | The quality and relevance of pupil work experience , curriculum development , careers education and guidance and other key partnership areas will be dependent on a teaching profession with a positive attitude to the role of business based on first hand experience . |
| 9 | The two ‘ old lags ’ , who have read all about sex , have the most daring conversations about an experience they have never known at first hand . |
| 10 | Here in Brighton not so long ago , she and members of her Cabinet experienced at first hand all the skills , courage and dedication of my colleagues . |
| 11 | Shelby did n't like Ferrari ; like plenty of others before and after , he had experienced at first hand Enzo Ferrari 's withering contempt for lesser mortals . |
| 12 | In a letter of 1867 to a friend on the death of the latter 's brother he writes : " You have experienced at first hand … why our Schopenhauer exalts suffering and sorrow as a glorious fate , as the deuteros pious [ second way ] to the negation of the will … , |
| 13 | Half the chapters are written by people involved at first hand with the initiatives that they discuss . |
| 14 | This is important because it is directly relevant to understanding the mechanism of a type of eruption not yet observed at first hand by any human being , but one that would make the Mt Pelee eruption pale into insignificance if an example were to occur today . |
| 15 | As archbishop , his only quotations from Lanfranc 's collection of Canon Law seem to have been taken at second hand from a treatise of his friend Gilbert Crispin ; then too , as on the earlier occasion , his quotations were introduced only to reinforce a conclusion which he had already reached . |
| 16 | Primary sources provide data gathered at first hand ; that is to say , they are original sets of data produced by the people who collected them . |
| 17 | Both Peking and East Berlin have witnessed at first hand just how dangerous the forces unleashed by Mikhail Gorbachev can be . |
| 18 | Mrs Bottomley said that in her South-West Surrey constituency she had heard at first hand many stories of personal anguish , crisis and despair in the last hard year . |
| 19 | It was almost as though such an experience gave the initiated a glimpse of a deeper level of reality than the allegedly shallow analysis of contemporary society by those who had not faced at first hand the traumas of modern warfare . |
| 20 | ( It will be found in Volume I of Hume 's Treatise which should be read at first hand , as we are not trying to do it any justice here . ) |