Example sentences of "[vb pp] by the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statistical analyses of sex differences have led to a popular belief that men 's behaviour is dominated by the left hemisphere of the brain ( logical , linear thinking , structured ) and women 's behaviour is more frequently dominated by the right hemisphere ( intuitive , visual , lateral ) . |
| 2 | That is , there are as many men dominated by the right hemisphere as there are women . |
| 3 | Good shoes , made by the right house , were beyond any whim of fashion — a mellowing lifetime lent them extreme quality . |
| 4 | Single-note harmonics only can be played by the right hand . |
| 5 | The republican state was undermined by the right wing counter reforms which eased the road to violence . |
| 6 | Led by the right hip , the right leg continues forward and thrusts to full extension at the opponent . |
| 7 | Left : Most of the weight of compact camcorders is supported by the right hand on the hand-grip , leaving the fingers and thumb clear to operate the on-off and power-zoom buttons . |
| 8 | Once infected by the right sort of dust , a new stream starts to grow crystals of dam-making clay , and the whole depositing , damming , drying , eroding cycle begins again . |
| 9 | Second , information is either degraded in passing from the right to the left hemisphere or else is less efficiently processed by the right half of the brain . |
| 10 | Once again Taylor was afflicted by the right back curse . |
| 11 | Dealers generally found trading better than they had expected — or feared — and reported that French clients , notoriously sensitive to political events , had been reassured by the right wing 's win in the General Election and the appointment of Prime Minister Edouard Balladur 's new Government . |
| 12 | Impulses from the left side of the field of vision are received by the right side of the brain . |
| 13 | Another major target has been the National University of El Salvador ( UES ) , long regarded by the right wing as a ‘ subversive ’ institution . |
| 14 | In the first Athena stands frontal on the right , her left arm and the shield in profile at her side making a vertical parallel to the fluted skirt-folds broken by the right knee . |
| 15 | Branches dominated by the left are less likely to be racialist , but unfortunately in many areas with large immigrant populations , like Leicester and Loughborough , the important union bureaucracies are controlled by the right wing . |
| 16 | Happiness is achieved through virtue , and virtue ( from the same root as ‘ virility , ’ though they wo n't teach you Latin in case you find that out ) is acquired by the right knowledge of things . |