Example sentences of "to the right " 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 | The two Patrick books are stations in a progress — what Amis has encouraged us to call Lucky Jim 's turn to the right . |
| 3 | The importance of the vital actions drill may even be undermined in the eyes of the student if the instructor insists on a complete check of each control movement for every flight ( stick to the left , left aileron up , right aileron down , stick to the right , etc. ) , since it is clear that things like this can not change between flights , and the majority of experienced pilots only do that check on the first flight of the day . |
| 4 | His voice rose suddenly : ‘ By twos — to the right about — march ! ’ |
| 5 | For now she stuck to the road which took her to the right , towards the sea . |
| 6 | Thoughts about how the spectacles would appear to me if I moved towards them leftwards must be related in the correct way to thoughts about how they would look if I moved above them to the right ; thoughts about their being artefacts must be related to thoughts about their not existing before a certain time or not coming into existence in the kitchen as the kettle boils . |
| 7 | Twist your body to the left as far as possible , and then round to the right as far as possible . |
| 8 | Across to the right a group of pegs promised a slight ledge and a belay , but in between lay an apparently blank wall , clearly a two hook job at the very least . |
| 9 | Below and just to the right of the balcony are several one pitch climbs : Delirium très mince ( 6a ) is probably the hardest . |
| 10 | Another 6a is Afin que nul ne meure , which goes up a very dramatic section of cliff to the right of the famous Pichenibule . |
| 11 | The sector to the right ( The Quiquillon ) has only a few hard climbs , but its other side , hidden from the village and approached from a parking place reached by driving through a housing estate just before the village , has many fine , steep routes , often with three pitches , at all standards . |
| 12 | He recognizes in Raskolnikov a fellow-struggler , and repeatedly he says that the two of them are birds of a feather ; but he also bids him farewell with a pointed ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like ’ towards the end of their final meeting , because setting off for America , unlike the North Pole , while it may or may not amount to doing anything ( Crime and Punishment does n't raise the question ) marks a parting of their ways . |
| 13 | Even his way of throwing his money about , what he has of it , is immediately distinguishable from Svidrigailov 's , while with both of them money is the very image of merely imputed and therefore reversible value in a loose-end world : ‘ You to the right and I to the left , or the other way round if you like . ’ |
| 14 | Mr Lo thus put himself in the forefront of consensus politics in Hong Kong , thereby leaving his unrelated namesake , Lo Tak-shing , to seize the high ground further to the right . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Ultimately Clouthier 's campaign fell victim to the rise of the left and the governing party 's shift to the right . |
| 17 | Three times the ball was spun out to the right and three times Claude Gerald left the North Midlands defence for dead with a stunning hat-trick of tries . |
| 18 | Just turn your face a little to the right . |
| 19 | On reaching the crossroads , we moved quickly to the right , and up the very dusty road leading to the village . |
| 20 | It appeared to be coming from somewhere to the right , the bullets were hitting the house high up and smashing through the windows of one of the bedrooms . |
| 21 | Conversely , if the press swung heavily to the left , television would have to reorient its coverage and redress the balance by leaning to the right . |
| 22 | Bear half left , aiming 100 yds to the right of group of trees , to find gate at right extremity of hedgerow . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Its centre of gravity had shifted markedly to the right . |
| 25 | Parade marshal Harry Foster is to the right of the unit . |
| 26 | The figure written to the right of ‘ Parabasis II ’ appears to be ‘ P. 124 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Third , it analyses the influence on the political agenda and public opinion ; has it shifted either of them to the right ? |
| 29 | But radicals in both parties who favoured radical changes , either to the left or to the right , have frequently condemned the civil service as the embodiment of an above-party consensus favouring continuity of policy . |
| 30 | In this sense we may talk of there being a shift to the right , even where this is not reflected in voting for the Conservative party . |