Example sentences of "on the other hand " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand it can bring about reconciliation between families and friends and a new appreciation of life 's true values .
2 Book-writers , Faussone says , produce works ‘ which may be beautiful and all that , but , on the other hand , even if they were a bit defective , excuse the expression , nobody would die , and the only loser is the customer who bought them ’ .
3 On the other hand , Harold Pinter 's characters Mick and Aston from The Caretaker are familiar , and both of them are still young and exciting enough to make good choices .
4 ( On the other hand , plays like Tom Stoppard 's Jumpers or Max Frisch 's Andorra offer good opportunities for large numbers of students . )
5 On the other hand , there was the nationalist theory of democracy , which derives power from the people and not from an élite group of religious intellectuals .
6 On the other hand , he wrote , if you do n't see this clearly at the start you only produce more crap and there 's enough in the world already .
7 I , on the other hand , he wrote , have always held that precisely because there is no discernable principle of order in the universe or in our lives we should live in the greatest possible self-created order .
8 On the other hand , he wrote , there are people like Goldberg , like Moss and McGrindle , who believe in nothing , except perhaps in personal power and glory , though they would like to believe in something ‘ higher ’ .
9 On the other hand , aphids can infect raspberries with incurable virus diseases , and blackcurrant reversion is spread by big-bud mites .
10 On the other hand , the check for full and free movement must be done after strapping in , because it is possible in some aircraft to jam the controls by tightening the straps round a cable or control rod .
11 On the other hand , a tail-skid will not grip at all on tarmac , but is better on the grass or earth , particularly if it is soft .
12 Choosing a field some distance upwind on the other hand , is not such a good idea .
13 On the other hand , you 'll never know if you can do it till you try .
14 The detective on the other hand , immediately sets out to reduce these culturally created separations , for he needs to negotiate a statistical reality with the ‘ dirty prig opposition ’ .
15 On the other hand , do n't make a habit of shouting every time you do something : this will cause the panel to switch off , and thereby perhaps miss an actual score .
16 If , on the other hand , you have got into the semi-finals , you may consider a placing worth the risk of further pain .
17 On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year .
18 On the other hand , materialists seem to be prevented by their materialism from allowing that there is any relevant fact that BS does not know .
19 We can have , then , an analogy between the natural languages that we think in ( English , Swahili … ) and the programming language , on the one hand , and the machine code and our ‘ language of thought ’ , on the other hand .
20 On the other hand , we have mental activity which enables us , second-by-second , to conceive of ourselves as mental entities .
21 On the other hand , by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested .
22 On the other hand they are telling us we are not playing for the money but the love of the sport .
23 On the other hand executors can decide to donate the body .
24 On the other hand , Charles Mackerras ' wonderful pot-pourri of tunes from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas for Pineapple Poll displayed how well he has caught not only the humour but also the pathos of The Bum Boat Woman 's Story .
25 On the other hand , Fokine insisted that most of Petrushka was danced mime , explaining that the dances performed in the fairground were the only real ones : ‘ These were not my own work as such crowds would have danced like that any way .
26 On the other hand , Prokofiev used his overture to Romeo and Juliet to introduce the leitmotifs which will help both dancers and audience to follow the unfolding of the plot .
27 On the other hand , if you fancy a night in , take a closer look at TV pubs with top critic Hilary Kingsley , while following Barrie Pepper 's advice on what to drink at home .
28 On the other hand the Police Inspector of the district found him standing with a bunch of yellow flowers in his hand .
29 On the other hand this skulking novelist told himself in a notebook , as we recall , ‘ I am a character ’ ; and there is every reason why the narrating ‘ I ’ of The Possessed should be perfectly visible .
30 Suicide as podvig , on the other hand , must drag a verbalized freight of theory behind it .
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