Example sentences of "the left " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he wrote , for that very reason , the right hand side should have been even more solid , even more thought through than the left . |
| 2 | Left , the exterior of The Pen and Parchment , Stratford-upon-Avon : Georgian windows masked by large blinds on the left , with what remains of the Georgian barn on the right . |
| 3 | If from the left , you wrongly would indict |
| 4 | The opponent 's open side is on the left as you view him . |
| 5 | Far up on the left , above the inn and the cottage row , two other figures moved , blue and white , not haymakers — Jean Bruce and young Donald , walking hand in hand amongst the bents of a neglected field at the furthest point of the McCullochs ' holding . |
| 6 | She paused at the mantelpiece to move a small cactus a couple of inches to the left . |
| 7 | To the left was a dinosaur of a stone pulpit , all arched and ornamented . |
| 8 | The signalbox controls the junction with the Blackburn line which diverges on the left of the picture . |
| 9 | National Chairman John Cryne was at the festival to give Jim Jordon , on the left in the picture , an engraved tankard . |
| 10 | At least a third of the route takes the steep open wall to the left of the corner and the climb as a whole demands a wide range of climbing technique . |
| 11 | To the left of this peak was Koitobos Col , a low gap in the crater rim , and we aimed straight across the top of the valley towards it . |
| 12 | George Smith , aided and abetted by Martin Crook , unearthed Big-Fin-Reef-Squid E5 6b on the left of Hyll Drem itself before going on to tackle the fins of rock between Primus and Burner , resulting in Of All the Bars in All the World , E6 6b ; apparently every other move involves a knee-bar , but probably only if you 're as tall as George — the rest of us should merely levitate . |
| 13 | Near the summit on a steep , south-facing crag Going for the Jugular , which climbs the left-hand crack up the steep buttress on the left . |
| 14 | In practice this often meant that immature minds would take over Leavis 's own evaluations without relating them to their own experience of literature , resulting in the diffusion of callow or inept judgements that has been condemned from the right by C. S. Lewis and from the left by Catherine Belsey . |
| 15 | Traditional English teaching is also under attack from the rainbow coalition of the left . |
| 16 | On the Left it was advanced by Raymond Williams ; Dollimore and Sinfield , in their introduction to Political Shakespeare , argue for ‘ cultural materialism ’ , which brings together historical context , theoretical method , political commitment , and textual analysis in an effort to overturn established readings of Shakespeare . |
| 17 | The idea of literary sensibility would probably be dismissed by the culturalists of the Left as a piece of mystification , and certainly few of them have shown signs of possessing it , on either side of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | But people need myths of one sort or another , and the Left has its own , in memories of Wat Tyler , Cromwell , the Tolpuddle Martyrs , and the heroic industrial struggles of the past . |
| 19 | Instead , Nayim 's cutback from the byline on the left enabled Lineker to win it for Tottenham . |
| 20 | Many of the PAN 's traditional supporters appeared to abandon the party to support Salinas for fear the left might win . |
| 21 | Similarly the many Mexicans looking simply to cast an anti-government vote supported the left , which stood a greater chance of winning and emerged in second place amid evidence of substantial fraud by the government . |
| 22 | However , the conference overwhelmingly rejected attempts from the left to commit the party to a major extension of public ownership , and to take control of at least one leading company in each of the main manufacturing sectors . |
| 23 | I am afraid it was because he did not want to get entangled with the left on such an emotional issue . ’ |
| 24 | Its extension would now oblige the left to find new ways of campaigning among party members , because they tended to cast their votes according to what they saw on television . |
| 25 | What appeared to be the last rites were then administered by Kevin McDonald , whoise storming try was converted by Pugh , but with three minutes to go Moon , not to be eclipsed , cut loose for his third try and Watkins landed the match-winning conversion from far out on the left . |
| 26 | The view on the left was that the Bush administration was more involved in the coup than it has admitted , but decided against a visible or military role for fear of the political consequences of failure and a heavy loss of American lives . |
| 27 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 28 | Nigel Vaughan 's cross from the left tempted Spink to leave his goal , but Bull ignored the on-rushing keeper and headed the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards . |
| 29 | The ritual went like this : Whenever Labour made news — at a conference , during a policy dispute , before a tense meeting of the National Executive Committee — politicians and commentators would be sat in front of a microphone and asked : ‘ Will the left defeat the leadership ? ’ |
| 30 | The left is in a small minority in every bit of the party that matters — the executive , the Shadow Cabinet , the party conference . |