Example sentences of "had the right " in BNC.
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| 31 | It had the right bureaucratic timbre and , besides , was a favourite of the new commissioner , littering his memos . |
| 32 | We had to look at what we can afford to do in the future , and make sure that we had the right number of quality staff in the right places to carry out our programme . |
| 33 | I tried phoning you this lunchtime to ask about the above proposal , but I do n't even know if I had the right number , though I got through to it twice ; about five different people spoke to me uncomprehendingly , and eventually a man came to the phone and said ‘ Bratislava ’ ; I did n't know whether that meant I 'd got a Bratislava number , or that you 'd gone to Bratislava . |
| 34 | ‘ I just do n't feel I had the right level of care . ’ |
| 35 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |
| 36 | Insane ! ) — but he was certain he had the right answer , and a more direct and obvious one than hers had been . |
| 37 | This Dickens had the right idea after all , no matter who his anonymous friend might be . |
| 38 | ‘ He had the right idea about women , ’ Lucenzo said cynically . |
| 39 | Through Ed , who , she thought had the right contacts because he was a man , they went to the Roundhouse that night . |
| 40 | I suppose a wife should consider her husband 's work before her own happiness , ’ Penelope agreed , for like many modern young women she had the right old-fashioned ideas about men and their work . |
| 41 | ‘ Paranoid , ’ he said with satisfaction , sure for once he had the right word . |
| 42 | Would my right hon. Friend care to come to the county town of Lancaster to see how outstandingly well our schools , under local management , are spending their money now that they have been freed from an extravagant county council which never had the right priorities and always deprived our schools of the money that they should have had ? |
| 43 | I would find it all a little more convincing had the right hon. Gentleman not peddled the Government 's line so enthusiastically , with militant zeal — I hope that he will not resent the term — for so many months . |
| 44 | Had the right hon. Gentleman followed that example , he might have put forward a better case tonight . |
| 45 | I can not answer for other members of the United Nations , but in our meeting last week I certainly drew attention to the necessity for ensuring that the United Nations had the right financial and material aid to complete the tasks that we have set it . |
| 46 | ( c. 1 ) Writing shortly after Charles 's death , he believed that a new generation of both kings and nobles could preserve the realm so long as they had the right personal qualities . |
| 47 | This , thought Robert , had the right ring to it . |
| 48 | We were concerned with the start-up and whether people had the right idea about business studies … |
| 49 | ‘ I need lads who had no ties , and who had the right character . |
| 50 | But the decisive telephone call had the right result : Joan was a winner ! |
| 51 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 52 | It had the right colour in it as well . |
| 53 | Well , he had the right number then did n't he ? |
| 54 | I asked him if he had the right number ? |
| 55 | This is why I had the right attitude when I first got to British Aerospace , anybody any , any anything anybody could tell me about how to fucking like that |
| 56 | I had the right card , it was the card number five which was for the hot wash as , hot wax as well . |
| 57 | He was fortunate in that he had the right doctor at the right time in the right so hospital |
| 58 | I do n't think I had the right attitude towards it . |
| 59 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |