Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the other hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I must make the ordinary orders to costs , well what I will do is erm doctor must I think pay the costs of the appeal against the order of master erm both here and below on the other hand the defendant seems to be able to bear the costs of the appeal against the September order , that 's the order , that 's the order of , is that Mr ? , er sorry when I say the doc doctor bears the costs must er in fact he must , right , it is the August , that 's the August decision both , both before erm the taxing officer and on this appeal and er the , I dismiss the defendants appeal against the September board with costs |
| 2 | He looked down at the other hand neatly folded in his lap . |
| 3 | Turning back , he quickly scanned the sheet again , looked up at the clock , and reached forward to slide a knob towards himself , at the same time sliding another away with the other hand — presumably fading out the music . |
| 4 | If they were grubby , you were told to put your hand out and you had a cut with cane , a punishment which was then meted out to the other hand , followed by the order — ‘ Go and wash ’ . |
| 5 | Well on the other hand we did n't want one between us er |
| 6 | But after having been short headed by On The Other Hand in the Punchestown Festival Handicap in April of that year , The Committee developed a ‘ leg ’ after having been struck into . |
| 7 | Then on the other hand you go home and do all your stupid humour on your wife and get fookin' hell kicked out of you . ’ |
| 8 | Then on the other hand she 's got Hywel and the farm — ; they 're quite well off , you know . |
| 9 | but as I say that 's , that 's the only thing , but then on the other hand they ca n't fall out with me will they ? |
| 10 | yeah but yeah but then on the other hand , let's face it our business |
| 11 | Yeah I mean obviously you 're not gon na instantly assume that every that says he fancies you is just joking , no obviously you 're not gon na assume that and I understand how easy it would be to be mislead but then on the other hand it makes me think , you know , you know with people like Ch you know |
| 12 | Last year was the centenary of the Borough Charters , so on the one hand I was trying to restore the traditions of the thing — erm we tried to reintroduce some of the pomp and ceremonial — and then on the other hand I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I 've set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of Youth Club type evening provision in the town . |
| 13 | And then on the other hand , I felt that the mayoralty often did n't seem terribly relevant to people of my generation , and so I tried to involve a lot of young people in various activities , and the offshoot of that has been a Youth Advisory Committee which I set up , which at the moment is in the process of trying to negotiate with the County Council for some premises to try and increase the sort of youth club type evening provision in the town . |
| 14 | Well that 's right erm but then on the other hand erm there are other avenues in erm the social life of Kuwait the political life of Kuwait that I can offer , and I can contribute and as a matter of fact can affect |
| 15 | Schools are prevented by law from charging for the curriculum , including charging pupils and their parents directly for school trips and visits , yet on the other hand schools are encouraged to generate as much revenue as they possibly can . |
| 16 | Yet on the other hand , new employers in offices on the Isle of Dogs are not required to take on any local people or train people for the jobs that are on offer . |
| 17 | Yet on the other hand , for the counsellor to be too conscious of saying the right thing at the right time in every situation represents a state of mind that can only hamper the counselling process . |
| 18 | He was completely in the hands of the King , who knew of his secret marriage ; yet on the other hand the King was unlikely to proceed against an archbishop whose actions had validated his divorces . |
| 19 | Indeed it is his duty on the one hand to die — yet on the other hand to live as long as he can , compatible with Chapter honour . |
| 20 | He displayed perfectly that contradiction of attitude ( or ‘ supreme paradox ’ , as Phillipson puts it ) in ‘ expert ’ thinking on old age that had emerged by the 1940s — on the one hand portraying the elderly as a disastrous burden on society ( men over the age of 65 and women ova 60 had formed 6.2 per cent of the British population in 1901 , an estimated 12.0 per cent in 1941 , and would be 20.8 per cent in 1971 ) , yet on the other hand , paying lip-service to their status as an exceptionally deserving group : ‘ Provision made for age must be satisfactory ; otherwise great numbers may suffer . |
| 21 | Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609 . |
| 22 | Many authorities would say that such a reordering of the series does not accord with serial principles ; yet on the other hand one can point out that serialism is only a method established for the facilitation of composition quality . |
| 23 | On the one hand the effect of human activity upon earth environment has been very apparent and increasing , and yet on the other hand until the 1950s or 1960s the significance of human activity did not attract much attention by physical geographers , who instead often chose to study environmental change before man , to seek processes largely unmodified by man , or at best to include man as an afterthought or an appendage . |
| 24 | Yet on the other hand surviving evidence tends to vindicate Richard Padley 's accusation , in the Fabian survey of evacuation , that Whitehall used the decentralised local government system to shirk its responsibilities ; the Ministry of Health and Board of Education , he maintained , doled out ‘ platitudinous ’ advice via circulars and adopted an attitude of complacency over the possibility of medical problems among evacuee children , such as malnutrition , head lice , impetigo , etc . |
| 25 | Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest . |
| 26 | Yet on the other hand these are precisely the attributes which make human beings creative and imaginative . |
| 27 | Yet on the other hand it is frighteningly indicative of our real position . |
| 28 | On the one hand we have the hunting fraternity saying that because they rarely catch and kill foxes , some say a two to three percent efficiency rate , er that it 's not cruel yet on the other hand , they say that it 's the most efficient and humane way to control the fox population . |
| 29 | It 's a very striking book because while on the one hand he admires the Bolsheviks very greatly for the hope that they have given to man , for the feeling that they have given to the world that new potentialities are there to be realized if only we had enough courage , yet on the other hand , even at that point , he was acutely conscious that the Bolsheviks ' attitude towards the equality of power was leading them in a fatal direction , and long before Stalinism began to take shape , he described in advance what he expected to come . |
| 30 | People who drink very heavily on the other hand , either over a prolonged period or in a single drinking session , do run the risk of damaging their health . |