Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 11 o'clock de Castelnau , by now in receipt of further intelligence which seemed to presage the total collapse of the defence on the Right Bank , was back in Joffre 's office . |
| 2 | Seizing the opportunity at the right moment , he will link together a series of strikes , probably involving kicks , in an attempt to break through and score points . |
| 3 | He said that he will be continuing with Mary 's work of dealing with residents ' worries and complaints — ‘ pointing them in the direction of the right person to help them ’ — and assisting them with official forms , etc . |
| 4 | On the crag , Dave Birkett has added Unrighteous Doctors , E6 6c ( F7c ± ) , which takes a line from the yew on the right side . |
| 5 | This sense of purpose and of confinement to " legitimate " objectives is briefy conveyed in a single sentence describing events at Malmesbury : " They seized all the corn ; sold it at 5s [ 25p ] a bushel , and gave the money to the right owners . " |
| 6 | Interpretation is not really a problem for Richards , but simply a matter of approaching the text with the right kind of attention . |
| 7 | In both conditions the usual asymmetry emerged suggesting that factors associated with verbal output do not determine the advantage for the right ear . |
| 8 | The impressive realism of this performance is totally ruined , however , if you bend down and turn the snake up the right way again . |
| 9 | Towards noon , the Lord Hasan 2nd , on whose name be peace , wearing a white garment and a white turban , came down from the castle , approached the pulpit from the right side and in the most perfect manner ascended it . |
| 10 | If there are problems getting the cable to the right place , start off with a piece of weighted string , which you can ‘ fish ’ through the hole you have cut , and then use this to pull the cable through . |
| 11 | With this caveat , he endorsed the Fifth Army proposal for resuming the offensive on the Right Bank . |
| 12 | The final thing to do is to put the chart in the right place in the house . |
| 13 | They knew he was out of the boardroom at the right time . |
| 14 | The speed of breakdown depends upon the composition of the wastes , the availability of air and moisture , temperature , and the presence of the right soil fauna and flora . |
| 15 | Each one is selected as a separate selfish gene , but it flourishes only in the presence of the right set of other genes . |
| 16 | It is then a relatively simply matter to pretend to put the coin in the right hand but secretly retain it to put in the collar . |
| 17 | Our route had silver bolts , while the bolts for the route on the left were painted red and the ones for the route on the right green ! |
| 18 | If one surface , A , is closer than another , B , then the image of A relative to B on the retina of the right eye is slightly to the left of the image on the left retina . |
| 19 | Near the bungalow on the right hand |
| 20 | The part of the town on the left bank of the Nive is known as Grand or Greater Bayonne , the part on the right bank as Petit or Lesser Bayonne . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 3 ) HWIM and HEARSAY-II have only rough measures of the usefulness of the right context , while in TRACE II the amount of feedback is tightly controlled by the number and activity of the higher-level units . |
| 23 | Projectionists had to be very careful to orientate the disc and to put the pickup in the right groove for the sound to be in synchronism . |
| 24 | We are looking across the carriage from the right hand doorway ; the interior surface of the open door is at the right , and in the centre are the front windows . |
| 25 | It 's the side opposite the right angle . |
| 26 | With a mile to run , he reduced power and rolled the plane to the left , counteracting the drag on the right side . |
| 27 | Still holding the sling in your left hand , slip your right arm into its sling and , taking the weight on the right shoulder , lift the pack onto your back . |
| 28 | You just point the car in the right direction press the pedal and you 're there . |
| 29 | Such times are unusual , yet they do occur ; with hindsight , they often seem to have been the result of the right combination of people , time and place . |
| 30 | He is usually accompanied by a stalker and gillie , local men who are familiar with the herds and their habits , and who know the country like the back of their hands and can help lead those doing the shooting to the right place . |