Example sentences of "the [num] hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is some doubt in a grey area of differences between monographs on the one hand , and catalogues or biographies on the other . |
| 2 | On the one hand , force has been required to subordinate it , and , on the other , it has always threatened to outbreed protestant loyalists , an outcome which has only been avoided by catholic — nationalist migration over the past seventy years . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the laity would not understand the complexity of the issues because of their poor understanding of Christian doctrine and the intricacies of morality ; on the other , the area of the sacred in the political arena was clearly defined , and clear guidance from the clerical church was both necessary and expected by good Christian politicians . |
| 4 | On the one hand there were the beliefs in the nature and extent of the clergy 's political religious power and how that power was to be exercised in the state . |
| 5 | The major debates after that time have tended to show a split between church leadership and a large section of its laity on the one hand , and a significant proportion of Roman catholic laity , other churches , and secular groups on the other . |
| 6 | Catholics and protestants became more and more segregated by school , as the Roman catholic bishops sought to bind in their flocks from outside influences , on the one hand to protect them from proselytism , and on the other to use the schools as a vehicle for the maintenance and development of faith . |
| 7 | On the one hand they subscribed to the annual Irish parliamentary party fund and , on the other , they publicly praised the Irish party as the true political representatives of the Irish people and its interests in the British parliament . |
| 8 | On the one hand , he wrote , it pushes nothing out of its way . |
| 9 | On the one hand it is nothing and asks for nothing , on the other it is the secret and silent source of the destruction of everything . |
| 10 | On the one hand it makes no demands , he wrote , on the other it is the vitriol which corrodes everything with which it comes into contact , the Gorgon which turns to stone all who gaze upon it . |
| 11 | On the one hand , he wrote , it is like everything else in the gallery , on the other it is opposed to everything in the gallery . |
| 12 | On the one hand the multiplication of good brasseries in recent months has been a breath of fresh air to the restaurant industry , and the public has shown its appreciation by packing them full every night . |
| 13 | But guard against getting overtired on the one hand , and on the other against become sluggish from too little exercise . |
| 14 | On the one hand he can support his understanding of the institutional expectations by simply repeating those inculcated practices he has learned as a neophyte from the ‘ stories of the great days of policing ’ , which are interminably repeated ‘ at the charge room desk ’ or ‘ taken on at Nellie 's knee ’ . |
| 15 | Angst took over from utopian ideas of man 's upward march , quickly followed by despair on the one hand and pure silliness on the other . |
| 16 | On the one hand , it is natural to think of the world outside mind as consisting solely of particulars : the only things that could be general would be ideas . |
| 17 | This move from nominalism about the extra-mental to nominalism about mental acts can be seen in the development from Descartes to Locke and Berkeley , or , perhaps , in the contrast between such continental rationalists as Descartes , Malebranche and Leibnitz on the one hand , and British philosophers from Bacon and Hobbes on the other . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Throughout the philosophy of mind and certainly amongst both lay and professional psychologists there is the view that basically two kinds of fact exist : physical facts about the brain and the external world , on the one hand , and facts ‘ about how it is with us ’ , on the other . |
| 20 | In accordance with this latter kind of dualism , we have on the one hand our computational successes in recording ( the psychologist James Gibson used the useful phrase ‘ resonating to … ’ ) information in the external world . |
| 21 | If all that exists in reality are low-level physical processes in the brain on the one hand , and the high-level products of phenomenological awareness on the other , then how is PH 's covert recognition of faces to be conceptualized ? |
| 22 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 23 | It would seem therefore that the contingent or empirical links uncovered by experimental science between the nature of the stimulus and the intensity and distribution of neural activity on the one hand and between the properties of the stimulus and those of the evoked sensation on the other are not based on discoveries that go beyond , or arise outside of , ordinary experience . |
| 24 | These are the practical considerations of the nature and limitations of wood as a material , on the one hand , and the visual effect one is trying to achieve on the other : the two are sometimes difficult to satisfy simultaneously . |
| 25 | On the one hand , ‘ My friend , I have discovered something awful : je suis un ordinary hanger-on , et rien de plus ! |
| 26 | On the one hand , it denotes an absolute , once-and-forall change : the Copernican revolution , or the French or Russian Revolutions . |
| 27 | On the one hand she makes a speculative diagnosis of him , out of Adlerian psychology ; on the other hand she half believes — but ca n't quite bring herself to say — that the blame lies with England , for virtually expelling him a quarter-century before . |
| 28 | What all of them contend is that the auditory effect of all English-language verse can only in a schematic and starveling fashion be pin-pointed by applying the only two measurements that traditional scansion recognizes : on the one hand the number of syllables , on the other the number of occurrences of ictus or ‘ stress ’ . |
| 29 | On the one hand , there is fundamentalist counter-ideology , such as the Islamic theocratic state . |
| 30 | On the one hand we are being told we must deal with the deficit , and on the other that we must not close things and rock the boat with the NHS White Paper around . ’ |