Example sentences of "[prep] the right hand " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the right hand the process is reversed . |
| 2 | More accurate perception of orientation was found for the left than for the right hand , at least among right handers ( Benton , Levin and Varney , 1973 ; Varney and Benton , 1975 ; Benton , Varney and Hamsher , 1978 ) . |
| 3 | These findings are particularly interesting in view of the fact that reading is a verbal process and might therefore be expected to yield a superiority for the right hand . |
| 4 | Concurrent verbalisation was found to reduce balancing times for the right hand but not the left hand . |
| 5 | However , Nicks , — Bradshaw , Kinsbourne and Feigin ( 1978 ) found that concurrent verbalisation increased response times for both hands on a typing task but more so for the right hand . |
| 6 | Even in the plan , though , I now realize , he wrote , there was a certain vagueness about the right hand side of both panels . |
| 7 | What about the right hand side ? |
| 8 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 9 | I pulled out some money and laid it on the bar , followed by a pair of black leather driving gloves with the tops of the three middle fingers cut off the right hand , a tube of mint-flavoured lip salve and a metal hip-flask engraved with the words : ‘ I am not a diabetic ; in case of accidents please rush me to the nearest public house . ’ |
| 10 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 11 | Please refer to the section at the bottom of the right hand page . |
| 12 | You stood in the gutter , on the edge of the pavement , held the corner of a card between the first and second fingers of the right hand and flicked . |
| 13 | Practise doing less of the left hand ones and more of the right hand ones . |
| 14 | This band of gold probably originates from Egypt , where lovers wore it on the fourth finger of the right hand or ring finger . |
| 15 | The figurine stood erect on its plinth , a long sword clutched in the left hand pointing downwards , the fingers of the right hand casually curled , but close to the deadly sheathed dagger in the belt . |
| 16 | I usually put one piece on the index finger of the left hand and the other piece on the second finger of the right hand . |
| 17 | In order to free yourselves , with the fingers of the right hand grasp the loop of the rope tied to your friends ' wrists . |
| 18 | Each cathode ( k ) lead of the left hand line of l.e.d.s is connected to the anode ( a ) lead of the right hand l.e.d.s . |
| 19 | Finally , all the cathode leads of the right hand line are connected to the p.c.b. , with the lowest l.e.d. to copper pad 1 , the next to pad 2 etc . |
| 20 | There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off . |
| 21 | Skilled players may choose to hook gently or draw the shot by aiming down the right side of the fairway and encouraging an early rotation of the right hand over the left prior to impact . |
| 22 | The eleventh-century punishment for causing inflation by reducing the value of coins ( usually by using base metals or clipping off pieces of silver ) was the loss of the right hand and castration . |
| 23 | Like Nos. 1–16 , these cars carried a narrow fare table board in the left hand bulkhead window position and some cars had a hinged opening light in the top of the right hand bulkhead window . |
| 24 | These are buttons which operate the power-zoom on the lens , and they should be comfortably accessible to the first and second fingers of the right hand , although different models vary on this . |
| 25 | In the blink of an eye , Joe Walker 's Starfighter rammed the Valkyrie 's starboard wingtip with its tail , then rolled sharply left and flipped upside-down , ripping off most of the left hand and part of the right hand vertical tails . |
| 26 | A thin wedge of what looked like mud caked between the heel and the sole of the left shoe ; the pattern of blood stiffening the fine fawn cashmere of the sweater ; the half-open mouth fixed in a rictus between a smile and a sneer ; the dead eyes seeming as he watched to shrink into their sockets ; the left hand with its long pale fingers , curved and delicate as a girl 's ; the palm of the right hand thick with blood . |
| 27 | ‘ The accident was caused by a loss of pitch control following the in-flight separation of the right hand horizontal stabiliser and elevator … . ’ |
| 28 | You 'll find the little diagram showing you where the pulmonary vein and the pulmonary artery are on page eleven , page eleven if you want to refer to it right , if you want to look at it in a closer detail tonight that 's fine and if you want to see what I 'm saying now in a diagrammatic form look on page thirteen now if you look at that you 'll see some , the blue vein blood vessels it 's coming out of the right hand side of the heart and if you look at the direction of the arrows , okay , they 're going away from the heart , do you agree with me ? |
| 29 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 30 | These two distributions ( of differences in skill between left and right hands ) consist of those individuals in whom the right shift factor biasing the left hemisphere towards subserving speech , and coincidentally favouring greater skill of the right hand , is present ( RS + ) and those in whom it is absent ( RS ) . |