Example sentences of "[noun] from left to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When , however , it is exposed in the left field alone , the tendency to move the eyes at the beginning of the line ( presumably the dominant one ) would be in conflict with the tendency to move the eyes from left to right . |
| 2 | ‘ Jimmy was able to shift his weight from left to right . |
| 3 | Typically , the program would look at the words from left to right , and test whether each word in the sentence was a likely candidate for the case slots of the main verb . |
| 4 | When knitting lace , the front bed becomes the ‘ main bed ’ and , after knitting the rib , all stitches should be transferred to the front bed , using the 1/4 pitch position and the transfer carriage from left to right . |
| 5 | The book begins , with the description of father and son at the latter 's birth ; the following paragraph is so formal in its rhetorical design , balancing each element of Mr Dombey 's description against a similar element of the description of Paul , that we may set it out in tabular form ( reading the columns from left to right ) : This is a brief glimpse of one kind of language which recurs at intervals throughout the book , especially at symbolic and ceremonial points in the fortunes of the Dombey family : births , funerals , and marriages . |
| 6 | The order of genes in these transfer vectors was the same as the order of cloning sites from left to right in pAcAB3 and pAcAB4 ( Figure 1 ) . |
| 7 | The easiest way to cross-hatch is to hold the pastel as one would a pencil and make quick diagonal strokes from left to right and then use the other colour in the opposite direction from right to left . |
| 8 | CCG Grangemouth team from left to right |
| 9 | How could grown men and women risk excommunication , persecution , and even burn themselves to death rather than see the altar procession move from left to right , the number of alleluias cut from three to two , and the number of fingers used in making the sign of the cross raised from two to three ? |
| 10 | H.S. Ferns , A Reading from Left to Right : One Mans Political History ( 1983 ) |
| 11 | Now the mission to Colesfield was with the crew that you have pictures , have the picture of , as you look at the picture from left to right standing in the back is or I should say , , , and his home town was Louisiana , he was a waste gunner . |
| 12 | The paper is moved both backwards and forwards in very precise steps while a pen carrier holding four miniature ballpoint pens moves across the surface from left to right and vice versa . |
| 13 | Most players hit the ball from left to right , which means that this hazard is waiting to catch them out . |
| 14 | You ca n't let him act like that ! ’ continued the other woman , and Agnes noticed that as she spoke she kept rapidly shaking her head from left to right and right to left , at the same time lifting her shoulders and eyebrows expressing indignant astonishment that someone had refused to respect her friend 's human rights . |
| 15 | He stood in a familiar , flamboyant posture with his hands on his hips and his chin stuck out , constantly turning his head from left to right and back again , to take in his entire audience . |
| 16 | Surely he would come down the street from this direction , she would soon see him , turning his head from left to right to make sure nobody was there to witness their assignation . |
| 17 | The sole entertainment in the restaurant to which they went was a violinist ‘ with three strands of henna 'd hair from left to right . ’ |
| 18 | Taking in the titles from left to right , he at first saw little of interest:Queer Things About Egypt ; Wonderful Nests , by the Rev. J. G. Wood ; The Elements of Mechanism ; Highways and Byways in the West Country … |
| 19 | Each path that matches the input is extended in parallel from left to right . |
| 20 | What I mean by that is that if there are eight or ten things running across the spectrum from left to right , they 're all at specific points , and that way you can do a more sophisticated job of layering , while still retaining a certain delicacy . ’ |
| 21 | Try you luck ten or twenty yards from left to right of the present-day path . |
| 22 | The ideal data input document is one where only the required information appears and appears in sequence from left to right . |
| 23 | We have no option but to see it as movement from left to right . |
| 24 | The basic mechanism is to build an edge from left to right . |
| 25 | Allow to come to room temperature ( about 20sec ) then , using a stripping knife ( used for decorating ) , push into and along the chocolate , moving the knife from left to right to form waves . |
| 26 | When we write we scan across and move our hands from left to right . |
| 27 | When we read we scan a line of print from left to right . |
| 28 | If you think about the problems that there are with mathematics , whereby it 's not just a question of scanning print from left to right , but that you were involved in processes where sometimes you 're moving from left to right and sometimes from right to left , sometimes vertically . |
| 29 | A narrow card subject , occupying the full height of the field of view was placed in position and measured at various points from left to right , using three different exposures . |
| 30 | If we see a character walking along a path to cross the screen say from right to left , and if this shot is immediately followed by one in which the same person is walking along the path from left to right , the viewer 's natural assumption is that the walker has reversed direction and is now returning to his or her starting point . |