Example sentences of "[noun pl] to [art] left " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leaders of the new Progressive party , founded in 1912 and dedicated to bridging the gap between the professional middle classes and businessmen , proved much more adventurous and vigorous than the Kadets in exploring — without success — the possibility of co-operation with parties to the Left . |
| 2 | The main parties to the left of the SDP , running under the banner of the Left-Wing Alliance formed in April 1990 [ see p. 37506 ] , saw their combined vote fall by 3.1 per cent but retained 19 of their 20 seats . |
| 3 | Heron ( 1957 ) found that unilaterally presented words were better recognised from the right visual field but that with bilateral presentation there was an advantage of words to the left of fixation . |
| 4 | Up the side road at the chapel an old track , walled at first , branches to the left , passes behind the grounds of Whernside Manor and climbs gradually across the lower slopes of Whernside : this is an ancient right of way probably more in use in packhorse days than now . |
| 5 | It is easy to picture how it looked , for the steps and ball-topped garden gate piers to the left of it would have led up to the front door , and there would have been an exact replica of this wing to the far left . |
| 6 | He wants to know how to get up the steps to the left of the infrared detonator . |
| 7 | Cursor movement ( or direction ) keys are located in the number pad at the right of the keyboard ( or in a cluster of direction keys to the left of the number pad ) and in the function key pad ( see page 6 ) . |
| 8 | More gardens to the left , so it would make sense to suppose that you 'd come in from the right , leaving your car in the road at the end of the row . |
| 9 | Verbal questions tended to elicit eye movements to the right whereas questions of a spatial nature tended to elicit movements to the left . |
| 10 | A fist-sized hole was punched in the glass two feet to the left of Pearce 's screaming , crimson face . |
| 11 | By convention the geologist plots coarse grains to the left of the abscissa and fine to the right . |
| 12 | How far has he flown in this time ? unc Answer 54,825.0 kilometres Again the figures move to higher place values , this time two places to the left while the decimal holds its place . |
| 13 | One like that , you see we 'd have to move the point two places to the left , so we 'll have to introduce another zero . |
| 14 | This is because increasing the proportion of left handers in the overall population by shifting the criterion to the right takes in a larger segment of the RS — distribution , but this segment constitutes a changing proportion of the number of individuals to the left of this criterion ( i.e. the left handers ) . |
| 15 | On the right there are two schemes including fossil agnathan groups congruent with the classifications to the left . |
| 16 | Then the sidewalk three yards to the left of me started exploding , and an earthquake line of stone chips advanced towards the cart . |
| 17 | As it happened , the Germans had moved the balloons one thousand yards to the left . |
| 18 | A 5 inch French link with rubber reins to the left of the door , the Major had said . |
| 19 | From the dark hole of his sleeve he brought forth his cuff , fiddled with the plain gold links , moved the files to the left , the right . |
| 20 | Once he thought he heard a movement among the trees to the left of him , as of footfalls rustling the grass . |
| 21 | Newcomers to the Left could be forgiven for not being acquainted with the tactics of the Communists and with the tortuous and unedifying relationships within the United Front . |
| 22 | Let us go upstairs to the bathroom , stand on the stool , look out of the top of the window , craning our necks to the left . |
| 23 | Some courtiers were intelligent , some had the desire to educate themselves , but in the whole these people had little interest in politics , beyond a vapid enthusiasm for the status quo which treated them so well , and an unthinking conservatism , which led them to dismiss anyone with views to the left of their own as " Communists " . |
| 24 | Roll the head three times to the left , then three times to the right , breathing easily all the time . |
| 25 | There were many fans who drifted in and out of the groups without making any sequential progress at all and the groups to the left of the terrace always provided for an escape from the soccer ‘ rat race ’ . |
| 26 | Gyford ( 1985b , p. 27 ) goes so far as to suggest that local government reorganization was one of the reasons for moves to the left outside London , where older councillors were replaced not by the hoped for technocrats waiting in the wings , but instead often by representatives of Labour 's new left . |
| 27 | We edge up a small re-entrant to the top of a ridge , while the second aircraft creeps along a woodline 200 metres to the left . |
| 28 | I snatched my miniature of whisky and lifted it towards the raised glasses at home , before stepping outside to watch those stars to the left of Polaris which would be blinking over Manchester . |
| 29 | THEN dial the two numbers to the left of each share . |
| 30 | THEN dial the two numbers to the left of each share . |