Example sentences of "other hand [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power is wide enough on the one hand to allow the statement of an eye-witness to an accident to express an opinion ( eg that one of the drivers was going too fast ) and on the other hand to allow a party to put in a medical report from a doctor who has died or who can not be called for any other reason . |
| 2 | Model predictions on the other hand indicate an altitude of about 25 km . |
| 3 | Men , he said , used to approach the nest 60 yards down on a rope , and holding a piked stick in one hand to protect themselves from the parent birds ’ attacks , with the other hand seize the eggs or chicks , the latter was a valued object and the former they could sell for 5/ each . |
| 4 | A backflip , then a single-handed grab for the exercise rope , her other hand seeking the wallbars . |
| 5 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 6 | Keith on the other hand feels the pressure was more self-inflicted … |
| 7 | Hold on to the case chassis with your other hand to eliminate the possibility of static discharge between your thumb and the integrated circuit . |
| 8 | Quine on the other hand takes the evidence of one 's senses to concern not what is internal to the observer but what is external to him , that is to say the presence of certain ( public ) stimuli ( Quine , 1975a , p. 73 ) . |
| 9 | We suggested there that the strategy available to him would be , on the one hand , to work predictively in terms of his previous experience ( similar speakers , similar genres , etc. ) and on the other hand to examine the content of the text . |
| 10 | His other hand retrieved the rose . |
| 11 | ‘ Fusion ’ on the other hand involves the joining together ( ‘ fusing ’ ) of the atomic nuclei of light elements such as hydrogen . |
| 12 | Then she saw Daak swinging above her , hanging by one hand from a cable that ran up the stanchion , his other hand holding the grenade . |
| 13 | The other hand grasped a kind of huge steering wheel attached to the side of the ladle , which they turned to tip the molten metal into the small holes in the mould-boxes . |
| 14 | Use your other hand to balance the bag as you work , if liked . |
| 15 | The UK clearinghouse on the other hand makes no charge for its enquiry service nor for distribution of user education materials , but sells all its publications , including the index to its database , as separate items . |
| 16 | Adrian McCann stood by the prow of the boat , one thumb hooked into the pocket of his jeans , his other hand gripping the butt of a Uzi sub-machine gun . |
| 17 | He grabbed Alexei 's wrist , then used his other hand to unclamp the fingers . |
| 18 | On the other hand making a cup of tea has an obvious start and finish . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On the other hand to disassociate the Church from the Kingdom breaks the nerve-cord of hope and destroys the community of commitment to Christ as Saviour and Lord . |
| 21 | Graduated separatism on the other hand draws a line beyond which men can not go . |
| 22 | Major consumers such as the USA and the European Communities on the other hand preferred an extension of the agreement for the permitted further two years beyond the expiry date of December 1993 . |