Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the graphs were set on a steep , ascending curve , apart from the Husayn twins ' ; they started in the top left hand corner and were headed , inexorably , for the far right end of the bottom line . |
| 2 | Hence far from state welfare being a morally superior form of meeting social needs , as claimed by Fabian socialists , for the New Right state welfare is paternalistic and morally bankrupt , rationing resources in a biased and potentially discriminatory way . |
| 3 | All you have to do is tear off the top right hand corner of your envelopes , leaving ¼″ of paper round the stamp . |
| 4 | Eventually she managed to slide the lid of the pencil-box right home and the newt was hers . |
| 5 | This aircraft was fitted with only two upper wing fuel tanks , and for a time was used on test flights with four-bladed propellers which , instead of the usual right angles , had angles of 80° and 100° . |
| 6 | Inglis argued that his result supported an interpretation of the usual right ear effect in terms of memory rather than sensory competition . |
| 7 | The explicitly anti-democratic nature of the radical Right project was put succinctly in an Institute of Economic Affairs pamphlet : |
| 8 | The Democratic Union ( UD ) , part of the governing coalition , lost its place as the largest parliamentary party when on Sept. 20 six deputies , supporters of the right-wing Forum of the Democratic Right group , left the UD . |
| 9 | Yes , your Land Rover is one of the first right hand drive home market vehicles . |
| 10 | Here I am thinking of the definition of race exclusively in terms of culture and identity which ties certain strands in antiracism to the position of some of the new right ideologues . |
| 11 | It is sufficient to sketch in the broad outlines of the New Right critique of the interventionist state , and more specifically , the welfare state ( drawing largely on Harris 1987 ; Clarke et al. |
| 12 | The Conservative governments of the 1980s saw school admissions as a key area in which to put into practice some of the New Right ideas about introducing free market principles into the education system , whilst at the same time deriving political capital from giving some legal recognition to parents ' ‘ moral right ’ to choose how their children are educated . |
| 13 | Consumers pay either through insurance or income tax for health services , hence there is no true test of the New Right model of suppliers reacting directly to consumer preferences in the market place . |
| 14 | End seems as far away as ever , he wrote , with the whole of the lower right panel still to sort out . |
| 15 | It was long since Adam had thought of him so , and he gathered the warmth of their recollection to him as gratefully as if he had salved one bleached and solitary bone of the beloved right hand out of the Severn , and laid it back in holy ground . |
| 16 | The Fifth Army command had been streamlined , with General von Mudra placed in command of the whole Right Bank , and General von Gallwitz brought back from the Balkans to command the Left Bank sector . |
| 17 | A close-up of the bottom right corner clearly shows the working method described in Figure 4 . |
| 18 | This delayed the advance of the German right wing but of even more importance — it revealed to the Allies the full and deadly impact of the hitherto unknown and undeployed German howitzers . |
| 19 | A. premaxilla of adult vole showing splitting and breakage of the incisors ( ×11 ) ; B. enlargement of the tips of the incisors ( ×38 ) ; C. further enlargement showing the mesial borders of the broken right incisor ( on the left ) and of the cracked left incisor ( on the right ) , both showing advanced splitting and flaking of the surface enamel ( cf Fig. 1.4H ) ( ×112 ) ; D. occlusal surface of vole molar ( ×75 ) ; E. enlargement of portion of the tooth to show very extensive chipping of both enamel and dentine surfaces ( ×188 ) ; F. lower incisor in mandible ( ×22 ) ; G. extensive splitting and flaking of mandibular ramus of vole mandible ( ×20 ) ; H. extensive splitting and flaking of inferior angle of the mandible ( ×52 ) . |
| 20 | A third blazed out its fiery message a few yards further on ; and a fourth and fifth , all along the line , until they disappeared as orange glowworms in the far distance of the French right wing . |
| 21 | ‘ Four-legged bastards , off to the right , ’ Harper said warningly , and Sharpe turned to see a troop of enemy cavalry trotting towards the Dutch right flank . |
| 22 | Using a slight pushing action , he shifts the weight on to the extended right leg while at the same time skipping with his left foot towards the extended right leg and almost simultaneously jumping off the ground with the right leg . |
| 23 | Strachan took one touch , lined the ball up and struck with the trusty right foot . |
| 24 | The best were in the city of Budapest which is divided by the river Danube into the hilly right bank where Buda is situated and the flatter lands opposite of Pest . |
| 25 | He maintains that it went straight as i die , whereas I think that it curled and dipped ( not to any great extent ) into the top right corner . |
| 26 | I nearly bit my lip when I saw that header from Fairclough looping into the top right hand corner from the McAllister free kick . |
| 27 | The striker took the ball in his stride and powered it into the top right hand corner from 25 yards . |
| 28 | Took up some good positions , had one half chance which the keeper did well to hold , and then chased after a long ball , outrun 2 defenders , hit it first time from 25 yards or so — straight into the bottom right corner , well the keeper got a slight touch which lifted it a bit higher but you get the idea . |
| 29 | All along the centre of the position the Dutch had collapsed , leaving a great inviting hole into which the French could swarm , yet from the far right flank there still came the sound of reassuring volleys , proof that Saxe-Weimar 's men were defending staunchly . |
| 30 | In their efforts to present a clear-cut conservative alternative to the liberal Democrats , the Republicans chose a candidate from the far right wing of the party , Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona . |