Example sentences of "[pers pn] is right " in BNC.

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1 She is right to draw our attention to the importance of signalling in both ‘ actual living and theatre ’ , but it should not be assumed that the same kinds of signs are employed in these two contexts .
2 She is right .
3 ‘ Queenie ’ then guesses who has the ball and , if she is right , she has another turn .
4 She is right to be worried .
5 But she recognizes the need to tread warily and I doubt not she is right .
6 She has definite ideas on how she thinks things should be organised , and sometimes she is right .
7 He knows that she is right ; all manner of things will be well in this city he is entering .
8 To himself he thought : supposing she is right !
9 ‘ I hope for Mrs Kettle 's sake that she is right . ’
10 She is right , she does n't , though when I catch a glimpse of her left arm , her bruises are pink and prominent , crawling the length of it like squashed insects .
11 She says here that of course there can now be no question of marriage , and she is right . ’
12 She is right to draw attention to the priorities involved in enhancing safety .
13 She is right in saying that the west midlands has benefited from a vast increase both in the amount and the share of inward investment into this country .
14 However , I shall certainly consider whether her suggestion could be included and I am sure that she is right to suggest the positive rather than the negative .
15 She is right , signore .
16 On her final point , she is right .
17 So , I think that in the opinion of Miller the family was the most important thing for B. and should have been for Eddie and all parents , but the priority for Catherine was her own life and I think that as far as Miller is concerned she is right , because she has a whole future ahead of her while B. and Eddie have settled down .
18 She is right to say
19 Maybe he/she is right ; often he/she is not and may recruit someone who becomes a liability .
20 ‘ As long as you know what you 're doing ’ , she ventures , adding : ‘ And as long as you know that it is right . ’
21 But the fact of the matter is , he wrote , that none of it is right , or rather , that what has so far been accomplished is wrong and what has not yet been accomplished is only right because it has not yet had the chance to be proved wrong .
22 It is right and proper that the brewers and their designers should address the challenge represented by imported concepts .
23 She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’
24 ‘ He knows he could not find an independent panel anywhere in Britain which would accept it is right to make an offer which is less than the rate of inflation to people who work in a service which is already underpaid and understaffed . ’
25 Universities are now governed on the principle that it is right and natural for the management of a university to respond to the opinion of the students — a thing which is manifestly absurd .
26 I doubt , however , if it is right to limit these anxieties to ‘ those who ruled Britain' .
27 Obviously it is right for the West to be supporting any movement towards democracy in Eastern Europe , and obviously the EC should play its part .
28 The Archbishop said : ‘ It is right and proper that we should bring our indignation with us to God 's house .
29 But I do n't think it is right . ’
30 It is right
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