Example sentences of "[art] [adj] hand and [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eleventh-century punishment for causing inflation by reducing the value of coins ( usually by using base metals or clipping off pieces of silver ) was the loss of the right hand and castration . |
| 2 | The challenge to party feudalism , the appeal for dialogue , the spontaneity of the street-corner , the call for democracy , the linked hands and self-discipline of struggle , all began in Beijing a year ago , before Berlin , before Bucharest . |
| 3 | In the blink of an eye , Joe Walker 's Starfighter rammed the Valkyrie 's starboard wingtip with its tail , then rolled sharply left and flipped upside-down , ripping off most of the left hand and part of the right hand vertical tails . |
| 4 | Of course , intricate burnishing must be done manually , since only the human hand and eye can correctly judge the perfect level of finish . |
| 5 | Time spent at Columbia University in New York in 1928 made a considerable impact on his teaching philosophy — there he became aware , during the sports training sessions , of the relationship between body and ball and the possibilities of its use in movement training ; he also deplored the artificial hand and arm movements made by many students , which disturbed their natural expression and ended up in pose . |
| 6 | Some evidence of this division between college libraries on the one hand and university and polytechnic libraries on the other , emerged from a 1981 survey of audio-visual presentations produced for user education in UK academic libraries . |
| 7 | This stock taking leaves us positioned inconclusively between alarm on the one hand and complacency on the other . |
| 8 | They have recognised the direct relationship between trust on the one hand and ownership , responsibility , productivity and quality on the other . |
| 9 | In the early '70s , with continual inflation in land prices , development profits were guaranteed ; indeed it was difficult to differentiate between development and construction profit on the one hand and inflation in land value on the other . |
| 10 | But it is less easy to see how they might be described in reference to grammar on the one hand and lexis on the other . |
| 11 | The major differences between Kuhn on the one hand and Popper and Lakatos on the other is the former 's emphasis on sociological factors . |
| 12 | This is illustrated by Cox 's ( 1970 ) work on Wales , which identified two separate milieux ( 'places ' ) — ‘ agricultural , Welsh-speaking , Nonconformist areas on the one hand and mining , English-speaking , non-Nonconformist areas on the other hand ’ ( p. 127 ) . |
| 13 | There are intimate ideological connections between women 's gossip on the one hand and sorcery and witchcraft on the other . |
| 14 | This does not of necessity call for a middle way between the extremes of egalitarianism on the one hand and élitism on the other . |
| 15 | Our international studies revealed instances where indigenous workers were used as buffers rather than bridges between social service organizations and professionals on the one hand and minority groups and deprived communities on the other hand . |
| 16 | There was no middle ground , the programme stressed , between absolute power and obedience on the one hand and chaos and ‘ banditry ’ on the other . |
| 17 | These are the reasons why the discussion of economic policy during the election has been so trivial and impoverished , with so much fuss about how the budget deficit limits the scope for tax cuts on the one hand and expenditure increases on the other . |
| 18 | At the outset there is an important distinction to be made between techniques on the one hand and soil conservation projects , programmes or policies on the other . |
| 19 | I have a concern — the Government have sought to divide courses at centres into vocational on the one hand and leisure on the other . |
| 20 | We come here to the question of the relationship between lexis/grammar on the one hand and context on the other , between semantics and pragmatics . |
| 21 | May L.J. , at p. 41 , refers to a submission made by counsel for the prosecution that Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ the alternatives ’ was a reference to a choice between breath on the one hand and blood or urine on the other hand and not to a choice between blood and urine . |
| 22 | What was the right balance between creativity and innovation on the one hand and familiarity and repetition on the other ? |
| 23 | Another of the things that I would be concerned about is the twin track economic approach , with IDB on the one hand and LEDU on the other and them being worlds apart . |
| 24 | Certainly we see here a very close relationship , of the kind envisaged by Durkheim , between society on the one hand and religion on the other . |
| 25 | Prutec chief executive , Derek Allam told New Scientist : ‘ Although we saw Speywood as combining manufacturing on the one hand and R&D on the other , they got the balance wrong . ’ |
| 26 | There has been a progressive unification of the theory of the behaviour of individual consumers and firms ( microeconomics ) on the one hand and theory of the behaviour of the aggregate economy ( macroeconomics ) on the other . |
| 27 | Furthermore , it has been found that the association between delinquency on the one hand and height , weight and physique on the other is greatly reduced once social , background factors are taken into account . |
| 28 | Realist approaches ( see Sayer , 1984 ) have been used to provide an alternative to positivism on the one hand and historicism on the other . |
| 29 | With the exhaust gas thus controlled , the catalyst causes a reaction between oxygen and oxides of nitrogen on the one hand and carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons on the other . |
| 30 | Laura found herself repeatedly hurt by accusations in the press that they had become ‘ tax exiles ’ and tried to point out how the decision to live abroad had , on the contrary , been forced on them by their peripatetic lifestyle on the one hand and fear of punitive estate duty rates on the other . |