Example sentences of "had the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't think we had the right attitude , ’ Sheila says . |
| 2 | In the first half his passing had the right weight and direction to give Williams and Wright opportunities to use their speed against the Yugoslav defence and bypass the sweeper , Petric . |
| 3 | Although Mr Headroom was actually flesh and blood posing as the unreal thing , there are plenty of computer animation specialists who think he had the right idea . |
| 4 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 5 | She was waiting , she says , until she was sure she had the right project with the right people . |
| 6 | They had the right religion , they were hard-working , and had small families which they could afford to keep in decent circumstances . |
| 7 | He felt great , he worked with class and he had the right attitude . |
| 8 | Perhaps Robert Louis Stevenson had the right idea in his travels in the Cevennes . |
| 9 | Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man . |
| 10 | This , coupled with the gossip that for some time surrounded the couple , soon convinced the constables they had the right people . |
| 11 | If you caught a sponsor 's eye ( Liverpool had its own version of the Trenchard system of accelerated middle-class promotion ) , or , in the view of many officers , had the right ‘ connections ’ , there were possibilities . |
| 12 | He had the right attitudes and ambitions , and was intellectually capable of the job . ’ |
| 13 | But he drew the line at including gurls , because gurls were less than zero — J M Barrie had the right idea there . |
| 14 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 15 | ‘ He was always very careful about ‘ the company ’ , making sure we had the right attitude . |
| 16 | Blood tests finally convinced Elaine Hinchcliff , of Stanton , Suffolk , she had the right baby in West Suffolk hospital , Bury St Edmonds . |
| 17 | Like the Corporation cars , several of these had the right hand side bulkhead window modified with a hinged opening light at the top . |
| 18 | ‘ We felt that between us we had the right mix of skills . ’ |
| 19 | In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin out of some Valinorean ‘ foresight ’ ; or because he knew hobbits were stealthy ; or because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘ mix ’ of Took and Baggins ; while as for the word ‘ burglar ’ , it was all a dwarvish misunderstanding . |
| 20 | He had the right mixture of politics and economics , cleverly interwoven with deadly figures and Government pledges to throw back in Norman Lamont 's face . |
| 21 | PRINCESS Diana had the right idea sending back her Mercedes car . |
| 22 | ‘ Farrah had the right abductor … if there is such a thing . ’ |
| 23 | She had the right academic approach to nursing to make a first-class tutor , but not ward sister . |
| 24 | If the Victorian era was over , the example set by Queen Victoria during her long reign was still fresh in the mind , and all women who had the right amount of sense and spirit knew that attack was the best form of defence when dealing with men who liked to lay down the law . |
| 25 | It would be excessive , even in today 's permissive times , to return to Stalin 's methods , but Lazar Kaganovich , Moscow party boss in the 1930s had the right idea : ‘ when the manager walks into the enterprise , the ground should tremble ! ’ |
| 26 | Mrs Stevenson stated , ‘ He had the right qualities for the job ’ , calling him ‘ a round peg in a round hole ’ . |
| 27 | They 'd have probably given him ninety days if he had the right advice . ’ |
| 28 | On impulse I picked up the phone and rang her , hoping I still had the right number . |
| 29 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 30 | Darwin succeeded where earlier evolutionists had failed because he had the right solution to the problem of explaining how populations actually change in response to environmental pressure . |