Example sentences of "to the right of " in BNC.

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1 The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway .
2 Below and just to the right of the balcony are several one pitch climbs : Delirium très mince ( 6a ) is probably the hardest .
3 Another 6a is Afin que nul ne meure , which goes up a very dramatic section of cliff to the right of the famous Pichenibule .
4 To the right of the picture , ignored by Gouraud , is a small group of Beirut notables , preparing for what several Lebanese Muslim historians would later refer to as ‘ the betrayal ’ .
5 Bear half left , aiming 100 yds to the right of group of trees , to find gate at right extremity of hedgerow .
6 Go forward ( not on the track of the farm ) across ( first ) field to where the wall meets fence to the right of the farm and here take gate into second field .
7 Parade marshal Harry Foster is to the right of the unit .
8 The figure written to the right of ‘ Parabasis II ’ appears to be ‘ P. 124 ’ .
9 Jim Crow laws dictated that we all sit up in the coloured balcony , so we followed Earl up the stairs of the separate entrance , located to the right of the box office , and found ourselves in the highest tier of the auditorium .
10 Last night , the 12 heads of state and government were discussing a text on the situation in Eastern Europe which gave unambiguous but qualified support to the right of the German people to self-determination — and by implication to some form of unity .
11 … Crossing a wooden foot bridge to the right of the village street , passing the village church and climbing a rather steep hill , on the crest of which the road curves to the right , I soon see the cart-track which leads to the hall .
12 ( The recessed verandah to the right of centre , with its sliding picture windows , was added at a later date . )
13 They see in it a threat to the right of each country to protect viridian quirks : quaint old farming practices , bottle-recycling schemes that depend on local breweries or milkmen .
14 He sounded somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan .
15 She retraced the swallow 's flight and there , up in the grass on the canal bank , just to the right of the Lock gates , she saw it : ‘ GAZZER ’ .
16 Rubbing it in , Emily placed her third bowl eighteen inches to the right of the jack , scoring maximum points .
17 In the event , these ended a foot to the right of him as he made a soft landing on Vic 's bed .
18 Although an OUP member , he had been active in Vanguard and was well to the right of the Party .
19 It is clear then that the DUP will receive the votes of the working-class loyalists so long as it retains an image of being more unionist than the Officials , unless there should be an alternative to the right of the DUP .
20 Sitting on the studio bed to the right of her desk and chair , she recalled old Yury lying there , for most of the hours of the day and night , and felt relieved , for his sake , that he was gone .
21 The trustees of the Pilgrim Society obliged and sent a piece of the relic which was placed in a special niche above a door to the right of the pulpit .
22 Its success can be measured by how it has moved Labour to the right of the Heath Tory government .
23 To the right of the green are bunkers from which it appears easy to thin the ball into the water the other side .
24 They would aim it to the right of Tock 's cottage .
25 They aimed the catapult at the pile of hay to the right of Tock 's cottage .
26 He remembered a swamp draining into a lagoon some distance to the right of the highway — the road must have been raised for him to have seen that distance .
27 The President sat at a plain wooden desk to the right of the door through to the front room .
28 Sitting in a heavily carved chair to the right of it , George Briant took a sardonic pleasure in the manifest discomfort of the men and women in front of him who moved uneasily in their damp coats and tried to find dry patches on their laps on which to rest their notebooks .
29 To the right of the central , Pogliaghi , doors is another set from 1950 , the work of Franco Lombardi with scenes from the history of Milan .
30 To the right of these doors is the stone commemorating the start of work , close to a superb copy — the original is in the Museum of the Duomo in Palazzo Reale ; indeed , several of the statues and works of art in and on the Duomo are exact copies , with the originals being kept in the museum — of a wood and copper eleventh-century crucifix marking the grave of an early Archbishop .
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