Example sentences of "[verb] from left to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 a positive or negative image transposed from left to right as in a mirror reflection of the original .
2 Operators with the same priority will be evaluated from left to right .
3 A shape can be flipped from left to right , mirror imaged vertically and / or horizontally and rotated through any angle as mentioned earlier .
4 Perhaps all one can really say about layout , in this sense , is that you have to remember that in Europe and America we read from left to right and top to bottom , in that order .
5 Tom took his hand and made him point to the letters , going from left to right , sounding out each one .
6 You can think of ordinary , real time as a horizontal line , going from left to right .
7 You can work from left to right as you prefer .
8 If the argument starts with numeric characters ( with or without a preceding sign ) , VAL will work from left to right until it meets a non numeric character .
9 If you 're playing against the computer you 'll play the first half kicking from left to right , changing ends at half time .
10 The brain 's problem is to convert this ambiguous information about the movement of edges through the visual field into an unambiguous representation of the movement of an object , in this case a diamond moving from left to right .
11 A diamond moving from left to right , but viewed through one of the two small apertures , will appear to move either to the lower right or the upper left .
12 Moving from left to right this establishes the proportion of each student registered on a field which is likely to contribute to each subject area 's FTE in each stage ( b , c ) , sets this against current FTEs ( agreed in the 1 November census — after some major ‘ servicing ’ arrangements are allowed for ; for example a high proportion of Stage I accounting is taught by staff from the catering fields ) ( a ) , and adds the likely effect of recruitment targets and combinations for September 1988 ( ij ) , to produce an FTE prediction for the next year ( m ) .
13 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 .
14 ‘ Buzzard , ’ shouted someone , ‘ flying from left to right .
15 Watery nasal discharge and obstruction goes from left to right nostril .
16 Run your finger along under the words as you read , so that the child learns that reading goes from left to right .
17 Feet firmly on the ground , the stocky Private Donkin methodically swung his tommy-gun , firing from left to right .
18 If the design is knitted as described , but with the pre-select row knitted from left to right , the first tow will tuck and the second row slip , which looks quite different .
19 Seated from left to right are a woman , a central harlequin and a man wearing a Cronstadt hat .
20 To read with understanding the young reader has to appreciate that a page of six pictures of a bear may not be about six bears but about one bear and , reading from left to right , that one bear at six different moments in time .
21 Reading from left to right , you will see that it is the lower register of speech which is concerned with power/volume and the high register with intelligibility .
22 Reading from left to right … we 've got Irish international striker John Byrne from Millwall … goalkeeper Phil Whitehead from Barnsley and of course the United manager …
23 Pains which go from left to right .
24 Complaints on the left side or go from left to right
25 Complaints are characteristically on the left side or go from left to right .
26 a positive or negative which reads from left to right .
27 Depending on which light you have on , the pattern will either go from left to right or right to left .
28 I looked from left to right to find somewhere to sit and could see nowhere .
29 A woman came out behind him and looked from left to right .
30 Dougal looked from left to right , then left again , like a child on the edge of a busy road .
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