Example sentences of "[num] hand [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is peculiar on the one hand because a moment 's reflection reveals design as a human activity taking place within , and not without , human societies . |
| 2 | ‘ Initiation ’ was a particularly strong piece , well drawn and lusciously coloured with the woman gazing directly out carrying a severed head in one hand whilst a chubby cupid somersaults in glee . |
| 3 | It is astonishing how many cultural vanguardists actually seem to welcome a situation where musical tastes are defined by either a handful of multinationals on the one hand or a relatively tight cabal of university-educated journalists on the other . |
| 4 | I had to try and get a bit of kip on the crumbling sofa with a torch in one hand and a big bit of four by two in the other , ready to whack any of the mice if they came out to get us . |
| 5 | Step by step they climbed , and as they ascended , black against the dazzling blue sky and glazed under a shroud of ice , a vast figure began to loom : a helmeted head , a flowing cape , a sword in one hand and a child in the other , and beneath its booted feet , visible as Erika and Karl reached the top of the stairs , a broken swastika , and bearing the whole gigantic figure , a grassy mound . |
| 6 | Bannered ‘ Women Face the '90s ’ , the Time cover features a woman with a briefcase in one hand and a baby in the other -a symbol of those women who feel betrayed by feminism because , as the magazine says , they tried to have it all and now they 've just plain had it . |
| 7 | ‘ Hey up , there 's some more 'ere , ’ said Mickey , with a bottle in one hand and a hunk of meat in the other . |
| 8 | Cartoons showed malevolent-looking flies with a smoking gun labelled ‘ anthrax ’ in one hand and a dripping knife labelled ‘ typhoid ’ in the other . |
| 9 | Thomas Meehan , one-time caretaker of the Bartram Garden , stressed his early dedication , ‘ So earnest was John Bartram in the pursuit of learning that he could scarcely spare time to eat and might often have been seen with food in one hand and a book in the other . |
| 10 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 11 | So many of us are accustomed to eating in front of the television , or at a desk or even rushing about in the morning clutching a briefcase in one hand and a piece of toast in the other . |
| 12 | ‘ You need something to do with your hands — hold a pencil in one hand and a rubber in the other or grasp the car steering wheel with both and keep them there . |
| 13 | Breeze wondered why his righteous indignation did not prompt him to offer his seat to one of the women who had just got in , clutching a shopping-basket with one hand and a baby with the other . |
| 14 | Believe me , it is not until you are standing with a bucket of icy water in one hand and a wet sponge in the other , looking twelve feet up at a grubby Beaver , that you start to appreciate just what a big aeroplane it is . |
| 15 | She was propped against the cold , damp wall with the baby in one hand and a bottle of gin in the other . |
| 16 | Finally , clutching Joie Gould with one hand and a bottle of Scotch in the other , he was sent off by train to a London clinic . |
| 17 | He had his head in one hand and a cigarette in the other , but even the shock that Mickey was in fact human and a reformed drop-out from the Bronx failed to dispel the magic . |
| 18 | He had met the press at a cocktail party and had stood there answering impertinent questions with disconcerting honesty , a glass of ginger ale in one hand and a canapé in the other ; when he could not immediately think of an answer he nibbled the canapé and viewed the questioner with cold button eyes . |
| 19 | With a sword in one hand and a pair of scales in the other , it symbolizes British justice and law — and the law has quite a lot to say about self-defence . |
| 20 | Taking a heavy poker in one hand and a torch in the other , he charged down the steps , feeling certain that the intruder had entered the storeroom . |
| 21 | The exchange represented the worst of both sides — woolly-minded thinking on the one hand and a blinkered response reducing morality to the level of materialism on the other . |
| 22 | Matilda , holding the hat in one hand and a thin tube of Superglue in the other , proceeded to squeeze a line of glue very neatly all round the inside rim of the hat . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm incredibly romantic , ’ said Guy when he greets me at his door holding a bunch of carnations in one hand and a book of poetry by John Keats in the other . |
| 24 | As I said before , the risk of collective action of this sort , which is regretted by many teachers ( as reflected in the rise and fall of the memberships of the different unions over the last few years ) , is that it tends to reduce to the lowest common denominators of more pay on the one hand and a narrow-minded , knee-jerk resistance to change on the other . |
| 25 | What appears to be a pair of Zombies stand by the west wall , one in either corner , with a a cleaver in one hand and a filleting knife in the other . |
| 26 | Brandishing a bolt gun in one hand and a power sword in the other , the burly Inquisitor strode along a broad boulevard , glaring to right and left . |
| 27 | Contemporary with the Minoan deities was the Hittite Weather-god Teshub , who carried a double-axe in one hand and a thunderbolt in the other . |
| 28 | The Emperor found Gambo Hartstock sobbing despondently into his apron , an empty bottle of Mootland Malt in one hand and a gore-splattered cleaver dangling limply from the other . |
| 29 | Marius fights with two blades , the Runefang in one hand and a long-bladed dagger in the other , a mode of warfare he has mastered better than anyone . |
| 30 | The correlation between a legal obligation on the one hand and a subjective right on the other admits of no exception ; as distinct from what is said to be the situation in municipal law , there are certainly no obligations incumbent on a subject which are not matched by an international subjective right of another subject or subjects , or even … of the totality of the other subjects of the law of nations . |