Example sentences of "be [vb pp] from right to left " in BNC.

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1 Consider a translate instruction in which ( a ) The source and destination strings are scanned from right to left ; ( b ) Each entry in the translation table contains both a value to be inserted in the destination string , and the address of a new translation table for the next source character .
2 The cards are marked in such a way that stitches are transferred from right to left on some rows and from left to right on other rows , so avoiding a bias .
3 The linker always casts off the right to left and the last row before casting off must also be knitted from right to left .
4 Thus numeric operands are held in sign-and-magnitude form , with the sign on the right , since operands are processed from right to left .
5 Since instructions are processed from left to right on this computer ( unlike data which is processed from right to left ) , the characters of an instruction are picked up until a word mark is reached ( indicating the beginning of the next instruction ) ; the instruction is then executed .
6 Far easier , as they are normally written in either European , or more probably Arabic numerals ( which are read from right to left ) , and conform to one of three calendar systems .
7 When she discovered also that Persian was written from right to left , she became convinced that his eyesight would suffer irreparable damage .
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