Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand . |
| 2 | Moscovitch found support for his proposition in the fact that split-brain patients sometimes begin to write with the left hand what is clearly a correct response to a stimulus seen in the left visual field , but that then the left hemisphere takes over control and the response is finished incorrectly since the left half of the brain has not seen the stimulus ( Levy , Mebes and Sperry , 1971 ) . |
| 3 | Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands . |
| 4 | The founding brothers never entrusted anything to paper , fearing that rituals and their interpretation of them might fall into the wrong hands . |
| 5 | Confirming details of the agreement in Washington on Aug. 31 , US President George Bush said that it " will help ensure that nuclear weapons grade material does not fall into the wrong hands , while providing funds to promote economic reforms and the transition to a market-based economy " in Russia . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) As well as ensuring that documents do not fall into the wrong hands , the parties should ensure that any meetings or " due diligence " exercises are conducted discreetly , to avoid rumour and speculation . |
| 7 | Labour 's consumer affairs spokesman , Nigel Griffiths , called on the Department of Trade and Industry to issue guidelines to firms disposing of damaged goods to ensure that packaging did not fall into the wrong hands . |
| 8 | If the planes are to avoid the danger of anti-aircraft fire or missiles , they have to fly so high that any drop would be liable to miss its target , with the danger that the supplies would fall into the wrong hands , or even injure those whom it is intended to help . |
| 9 | ' ’ The truth Now Stands In the Sacred Hands of the place which owns Dionysius ' bones ! ’ ’ |
| 10 | The lunge whip is carried in the outside hand , pointing down the back . |
| 11 | I am glad that the business continues to flourish in the capable hands of Rodney Shipsey — the third generation . |
| 12 | OSF on the other hand contends that the complex software is on schedule for the next phase , its Distributed Services Release due in September . |
| 13 | Okay , so we 're going to concentrate on the left hand side for the moment . |
| 14 | The ability of each deletion polypeptide to bind to DNA ( + ) or not ( - ) in gel retardation analyses is summarized on the right hand side of panel A. B. Gel retardation experiment with the 140k DNA binding domain deletion polypeptides . |
| 15 | The origins of Coombe House lie in the 14th century ( the surrounding farms date back to the 10th and 11th ) ; today it is a Georgian building with an attractive garden , the perimeter of which has been left to flourish without the interfering hand of man . |
| 16 | Mulhern does n't sell horses but he was partly influenced this time by Jeremy Maxwell who used to train On the Other Hand and he eventually agreed to part with the gelding to Robert Ogden with a view to running in the Grand Military Gold Cup at Sandown . |
| 17 | The ultra vires doctrine has on the other hand been used to curtail management ‘ generosity ’ to non-shareholder groups in the form of gratuitous payments . |
| 18 | At the end of the top row the sequence of bits starts at the left hand end of the second screen row , and so on . |
| 19 | Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God , and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured out what you now see and hear ’ ( Acts 2:32ff ) . |
| 20 | The first bar should be played with all six strings slightly damped by the left hand . |
| 21 | Much of Pacassi 's work was later modified by the original hand of Jože Plečnik in the 1920s , when President Masaryk , the first president of the Czech Republic , commissioned him to redesign the State apartments and the castle gardens . |
| 22 | It will not have escaped notice that minuses predominate towards the right hand side of the table . |
| 23 | In a scheme that could have been inspired by Alkan 's Trois Grandes Etudes Op. 76 ( except that Alkan was virtually entirely unknown when the Eckhardt-Gramatté was composed ; moreover , Pisani 's notes explain the circumstances of its composition ) , the first movement is written for the left hand alone and the second movement for the right ; the Finale re-unites the hands as it unites the music , combining the substance of the first two movements . |
| 24 | Trotting after her , Frankie automatically rubbed his hand on his trousers before daring to reach for the gloved hand she offered . |
| 25 | But the lettering 's done with the right hand by a left handed male , of medium height and weight , probably in his forties . ’ |
| 26 | Some people find it easiest to put the seeds in the palm of their cupped hand whilst gently tapping with the other hand so that the seeds are rolled slowly down the groove formed on the palm . |
| 27 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
| 28 | The interior of the church suffered from the dead hand of the restorer between 1897 and 1907 , but it represents one of the most monumental examples of the Romanesque in Bohemia . |
| 29 | He advertised , ‘ Instruction in writing in the various hands , merchants ’ accounts by the Italian method of Double Entry , arithmetic in all its branches , algebra etc. , plain and spherical trigonometry and geometry , drafting , navigation , the use of the globes , planisphere etc ’ . |
| 30 | With a partial split-brain patient as their subject McKeever , Larrabee , Sullivan and Johnson ( 1981 ) observed that the usual difficulty of naming objects presented to the left hand was considerably reduced under hypnosis . |