Example sentences of "[be] [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | You trust the judgement of a man whos been proven right over the last 5 years . |
| 2 | We 're looking right back to the beginning of the universe . |
| 3 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 4 | The astrologers have been proved right : the bridge was only closed to traffic in 1950 . |
| 5 | As time passed , and the cost of making new recordings has increased , so that prophesy of about 1953 has been proved right . |
| 6 | Nowadays , with the boundary between mass and energy abolished , the advantage might be said to have passed to ch'i ; yet it would be absurd to suggest that the Chinese have been proved right , since the advantages and disadvantages depend on which problems happen to be current . |
| 7 | And yesterday she had been proved right . |
| 8 | The sceptics have been proved right . |
| 9 | He boasts in the Tory-backing Daily Mail that she has been proved right in her warnings against the European exchange rate mechanism . |
| 10 | By the spring of 1949 , the Boards were triumphantly arguing that they had been proved right in that the differential charge had had no effect on consumption and merely provoked public discontent . |
| 11 | There is nothing as joyful for the opinionated as to have finally been proved right and I ca n't help but think there are many marginally employed musicians around Ireland today who weep or harrumph glumly into their pints when they think what might have happened if they 'd listened to Nicky . |
| 12 | Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too . |
| 13 | Draper had tried to veto Event , and been proved right ; he had tried to veto Top Nosh , and been proved right on that too . |
| 14 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 15 | He had been proved right , but how could it be ? |
| 16 | Now that you 've been proved right ? ’ |
| 17 | We have been proved right . |
| 18 | That is what the Labour party said in 1988 and we have been proved right . |
| 19 | Ironically , the observations of Captain FitzRoy , the orthodox Creationist , had been proved right . |
| 20 | The school 's decision not to become involved in testing had been proved right . |
| 21 | We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right . |
| 22 | Well probably because er you know we try and keep up er er certain standard every year and er you know it 's very important doing a video that you have the right songs for it , you know to get a story book set up for each song and this one we felt when we had it finished was probably you know the best we 've done so far and lucky enough we 've been proved right . |
| 23 | If some of those who proposed it are proved right in several years ' time , I hope that I will admit as much , but I have grave doubts nevertheless , and they are shared by a large number of heavyweight people in the Scottish universities . |
| 24 | He may well be proven right . |
| 25 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 26 | The impact of this resolutely conservative and often authoritarian political ideology can be felt right across the field of social and economic policy where an idealized and homogenized vision of ‘ The Black Community ’ is the object of a discourse that urges it to take care of its own problems and assume the major burden of managing its own public affairs . |
| 27 | Oh well , that 's where I 'm getting right confused . |
| 28 | Come on , I 'm getting right excited about this |
| 29 | Er ca n't watch it after you 've watched it at eight , I 'm getting right odd here |
| 30 | I 'm getting right annoyed with this now , why 's it only me he does it too |