Example sentences of "on the left " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had gone too far and experienced too much , I needed to slow down , to get back to the small things , the practical things , to measuring and cutting and fixing , and it was with relief that I noticed that daylight had begun to invade the room , I kept quite still , I held the glass firmly in my gaze , gradually the elements already worked on began to emerge , some more clearly than others , some in outline only and some only when they impeded the free flow of light through the glass , until the sun came up and was reflected back from the windows of the house opposite and I could sit and look at the glass and think back through the work and the mistakes and the few successes , and sense again with that sickening feeling in the pit of the stomach that the whole of the right hand side of the lower panel was still a mess , nothing there had been resolved , but then I drew back from that , though it kept trying to pull me back to itself , and concentrated on what was beginning to work , on the left hand areas both top and bottom and on the elegance of the frame and the joy of seeing the bare walls and the wainscoting appear through the empty areas , and as I moved round so different parts of the room appeared and the relation of the surface of the glass to what lay behind changed , precision and fluidity , precision and fluidity , he wrote , choice and chance , not choice alone and chance alone but the two together , that is why delay , not stoppage and not flow but delay , delay in glass , he wrote , as when the plane is late and you should have been gone , have already arrived perhaps , but you are still there , or the sprinter beats the gun and the whole field is called back , the race could have been over but it has not yet started . |
| 2 | Kegs in the pub cellar , the one on the left connected for serving . |
| 3 | The two on the left are metered pumps serving exact half-pints , the ones on the right are free flow pumps |
| 4 | The modern tendency to put the airbrake lever , flap lever , trim and undercarriage all on the left side of the cockpit can easily result in you pulling the wrong lever . |
| 5 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |
| 6 | The quarry , which rises to around 80 feet in height , has 18 routes ranging in difficulty from Severe to E3 , with a starred E3 and the two-star route Rock Around the Brock — mostly concentrated on the left hand side of the crag . |
| 7 | Park at the layby on the left just before the stone gateway to a vineyard about five kilometres along this road . |
| 8 | The trace on the left hand page shows the disturbances caused to the earth 's magnetic field by a solar storm occurring between June 12 and 14 , 1991 . |
| 9 | Admittedly , the politically radical implication of poststructuralist and deconstructive theory is a highly problematic idea , and has been resisted by some on the Left such as Terry Eagleton and Frank Lentricchia , and the contributors to a largely Marxist collection of essays , The Theory of Reading . |
| 10 | They feel they are creative enough to win , even without the injured John Barnes , whose place on the left flank will go to Chris Waddle with David Rocastle coming in on the right and Steve McMahon and Bryan Robson taking the middle . |
| 11 | Amnesty International 's report that this unholy alliance is responsible for at least 2,500 political killings in the past two years demonstrates that the Colombian authorities are more interested in waging a war on the left than on the drug cartels . |
| 12 | A small cottage was on the left side of the track , opposite Brigade H.Q |
| 13 | ‘ I shall be manning a weapon pit on the left side of the village . |
| 14 | Lovat 's headquarters 's on the left |
| 15 | The Cabinet , however , even though shorn of Crosland , and also of Roy Jenkins on the right and Barbara Castle on the left for different reasons , still remained credible as an agent of authority , and in the early months of 1977 Britain slowly emerged towards a plateau of greater tranquillity and modest economic recovery . |
| 16 | The numbers on the left are proposed numbers of lines . |
| 17 | Some commentators on the left take a more explicitly political view of the central-local government trends since 1979 and suggest that they are part of a deliberate larger attempted restructuring of relations between state and society . |
| 18 | Critics on the left claim that the police and education services have become part of the strategy of state control and regulation . |
| 19 | The days of the week were listed on the left side and a space of perhaps one inch by five was allowed for brief jottings . |
| 20 | Richard touched his finger reflexively to a light dressing on the left side of his neck where it met the collarbone . |
| 21 | Wallace , who had been playing up front with McClair to no devastating effect , moved out to his usual position on the left wing , with similar results . |
| 22 | From a free-kick on the left , Gannon swung the ball deep and Morris , not as heavy as he had appeared from the previous half-hour , made the game safe with a soaring header . |
| 23 | Bohemian rhapsody Everybody was having a good time on the Left Bank after the war , but the art was surprisingly thin , argues Tim Hilton . |
| 24 | Waddle may give them this on the left , but it would surely have done no harm to start the match with Dorigo 's dash instead of the perennial , peripheral Pearce . |
| 25 | Forsyth forced a corner on the left , Beagrie swung the ball towards the near post , Adams nodded it on and Wise forced in England 's first goal at the far post . |
| 26 | Four religious parties led by elderly rabbis hold 13 seats in the Knesset , controlling the balance between Labour and its friends on the left and the Likud and its friends on the right . |
| 27 | Worse , they had lost Gooch after a ball from Moseley had reared up and struck him on the left hand , breaking a bone , although until the match was over even his team thought it was only bruised . |
| 28 | That 's Pen-y-ghent , that 's Ingleborough and this is Whernside coming up on the left , but first the viaduct at Ribblehead . |
| 29 | Look down at the floor of the cab , and you 'll find a lever on the left hand side for using the Antares ' fuel-saving mode . |
| 30 | Why the pinprick on the left arm ? |