Example sentences of "[conj] on the other [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One view central to the lawyer/economist is that , in a world where , on the one hand , resources ( all of which have alternative uses ) are limited through scarcity and where on the other hand , there exists the insatiable human desire to consume those resources , then inevitably , trade-offs and choices must somehow be made . |
| 2 | With computerisation , communicating with another office in the same building , or on the other side of the globe , has become much easier . |
| 3 | ‘ Had it happened the week before we arrived , or on the other side of town , no-one would have noticed . |
| 4 | They began to fall back towards Ace and Petion , pausing where there was cover to shoot back at the Germans on the freighters or on the other side of the docks . |
| 5 | So you could have been standing , you with your shield , at this point with Constable with you , either on one side of the bed or at the bottom of the bed or on the other side of the bed , where were you in fact standing ? |
| 6 | Yeah , it 's either the fence yeah , you know that white fence , either there or on the other side where those gold things are you know , or if we 're not there , go on the other side of the park where the other gold things are . |
| 7 | But sometimes material facts are suppressed , or on the other hand one party may petition for divorce without the other party being aware of the proceedings . |
| 8 | Or on the other hand , I 'm sure you noticed , Lord Dersingham 's trousers were dripping wet . ’ |
| 9 | I mean by this it was not the sort of preparation which on the one hand Elizabethan erm critics and writers of rhetoric books , or on the other hand Ezra Pound in the twentieth century would advise to the poet that he must learn to turn a good sonnet or write in all the metrical forms , or accomplish himself deftly in the technical devices . |
| 10 | No education worth the name is wholly self-regarding , nor on the other hand can any be treated as wholly instrumental or other-regarding . |
| 11 | Nor on the other hand , can a tenant renounce his contract because of a mere apprehension of risk or through mere dislike of the premises through the fact e.g. that a person has died upon the premises of smallpox … |
| 12 | The All Blacks would treat such an outmoded approach with the scorn it deserves , although on the other hand they might have been impressed with Bridgend 's contrasting mobility and aggression . |
| 13 | But while the experts complained about the way ‘ soft soap ’ was sterilising British brains , only to then argue that on the other hand Neighbours was ‘ allowing more public expressions of family emotions ’ , Kylie was taking full advantage of the situation . |
| 14 | You could be mistaken for thinking that on the other side of the plain red door is another harbour based company . |
| 15 | It is so presented as to invite us to see no difference between on the one hand management appointed by , acting for , and accountable to owners , and on the other union representatives appointed by , acting for , and accountable to employees . |
| 16 | Relatively inexpensive , it may on the one hand inspire confidence in the wearer and on the other act as a tactile reminder that he/she has a bad knee . |
| 17 | And on the other roundabout for that matter . |
| 18 | A. ’ And you 'd get point A followed by points B and C , and on the one hand F , and on the other foot G , until you could see the whole alphabet stretching ahead , each letter a Sahara in itself to be crawled across . |
| 19 | We 're getting slaughtered on that and on the other way round . |
| 20 | When I changed buses there was just time to get the sweets and bananas — the bananas were very good today ; and on the other bus there was a nice driver who said that if I sat near the front he would let me off at the crossing if he was held up in the traffic , instead of my going on to the bus stop and having to walk back ; because of the rain . ’ |
| 21 | And on the other hand , there are ‘ less organised religious impulses ’ , religion as individual preference . |
| 22 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 23 | For many years the arguments for access to information have emphasised on the one hand the private values of privacy and autonomy and on the other hand the public values of democratic involvement in decision making . |
| 24 | On one hand , you have the ultimate spartan aesthetic for portraits : the passport photo — cold , detached , flatly lit etc — and on the other hand , there are heavily manipulated images in which the person who 's producing them is far more physically involved . |
| 25 | There is probably an equal number of people , for example , who think that the less able have a poor deal , and that the system should be geared more towards improving their lot , and on the other hand of those who think that it is the most able who suffer , and that we are wasting our educational resources unless we tilt the system towards them . |
| 26 | This greater need is created , on the one hand , by the direct costs of disability — drugs , special diets , clothing , incontinence pads , handrails — and on the other hand , by the indirect costs . |
| 27 | The diversity of munition products is exemplified by , on the one hand , the gun and aperture sights for the American Lewis guns , high precision work ( they had to be correct to less than a thousandth part of an inch ) of which 27 , 900 were produced , and on the other hand the unpacking and assembly of the American-manufactured Mercer and Hyster Mobile Cranes , 169 of the former and 207 of the latter being dealt with in addition to 37 Elwell Parker Lift Trucks . |
| 28 | On the one hand , there are those who see most ‘ food intolerance ’ as misdiagnosed psychosomatic illness , and on the other hand , those who see most ‘ psychosomatic illness ’ as unrecognized food intolerance . |
| 29 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 30 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |