Example sentences of "[vb pp] by hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then the pastry for the tarte , again all mixed by hand , would not lift off the board — which was the only time Eric had to come to the rescue . |
| 2 | A concrete mixer is an optional extra , as mortar for fixing the edging strips could be mixed by hand ( use 1 part cement , 2½ sharp sand and 3½ coarse aggregate ) . |
| 3 | These have to harvested by hand , like coffee , as mechanised picking would lacerate the plant and produce a much inferior product . |
| 4 | Capers tend to be expensive because they must be harvested by hand . |
| 5 | They too are planted by machine but , unlike maincrop potatoes , they are lifted by hand to avoid the risk of damage to their skins which at that time have not ‘ set ’ . |
| 6 | Large seeds , such as sweet peas , are easily spaced by hand , but other techniques are needed for finer seeds . |
| 7 | In the past , Guinness vehicles were loaded and discharged by hand . |
| 8 | A borehole drilled by hand through the mud and silt filling a former loch basin — drained in the 18th century — yielded a ‘ core ’ of material which can be studied in the laboratory . |
| 9 | The 40-piece collection is made from ‘ green cotton ’ , picked by hand to avoid chemical defoliants , and which does not rely on formaldehyde in the finishing process . |
| 10 | I 've heard say that Grandad used to rise at five o'clock in the morning during summertime to water the garden , all carried by hand , of course . |
| 11 | Tala-Tala even had its own home-made harbour , a kind of inner lagoon in the outer lagoon , obviously a laboriously built , three-sided breakwater , in which I assumed that every stone must have been carried by hand or on rollers to afford protection for the boats it enclosed . |
| 12 | For small problems , solved by hand , an alternative technique is available . |
| 13 | This imposes no real burden in small problems solved by hand . |
| 14 | Most of the items had a varnished finish , applied by hand by women and children . |
| 15 | Watercolour washes applied by hand . |
| 16 | The finely detailed bas-relief ornaments are applied by hand today , as they were in Josiah 's day . |
| 17 | It is available in easy to use mini granules which can be applied by hand or lawn spreader . |
| 18 | The well-equipped organ has two manuals and was built by T. Hopkins and Sons of York who installed it in 1910 ; the air was pumped by hand until 1950 when an electric blower was installed . |
| 19 | New wood must be fine sanded and if an orbital sander has been used , it is essential that the final sanding is done by hand with the grain , otherwise small circular marks will be seen in the finish . |
| 20 | Why did they decide to buy a £1,200 closed system for transferring spray when it can be done by hand for free ? |
| 21 | There was no induction hopper so all filling was done by hand . |
| 22 | ‘ We work hard because it is all done by hand . |
| 23 | Despite the availability of hardware for the automated conversion of geographic data from paper maps to digital form ( e.g. optical scanners ) much data input to GIS is still done by hand using a digitizing table . |
| 24 | Only small machines can be used and much work is done by hand . |
| 25 | Finally it was taken into the adjoining paint shop where the painting was done by hand , a laborious task . |
| 26 | Much of the work is done by hand . |
| 27 | Originating from ‘ cheiro ’ , a hand , and ‘ proktos ’ , to use , it literally means ‘ done by hand ’ or ‘ manipulation ’ . |
| 28 | A number of wooden ships continued to be built without adequate shear bracing , however , and such ships got more leaky as they got older , until , in an age when most of the pumping was done by hand , it became uneconomic to run them any longer . |
| 29 | Although we thought at first that this was a saw intended for only a serious builder , we discovered that it also earned its keep doing fairly mundane cutting jobs that would normally be done by hand . |
| 30 | ( With the built-in weaving brushes on the standard sinker plate , this has to be done by hand . ) |