Example sentences of "had been right " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had been right . |
| 2 | Its existence demonstrated for Engels that Marx had been right in arguing that commonality was the oldest form of social existence . |
| 3 | It they had been right , matrilineal society would tend to have a lower level of technological development while patrilineal societies would have a higher level . |
| 4 | The speech sent shock waves through the medical profession , but the Prince had hit a nerve and , for all the criticism that was heaped on his head in the aftermath , the letters from the public told him he had been right . |
| 5 | Out of 100 Conservative ministers and backbenchers interviewed by the Independent , 77 thought the party had been right to get rid of Margaret Thatcher . |
| 6 | Albert Spanswick had been right on that and the hard men of his committee quite wrong . |
| 7 | True , they had not suited each other , but supposing the chemistry had been right , should such a relationship have been ruined by the wretched man-made social system ? |
| 8 | Lee had been right . |
| 9 | His gut feelings had been right . |
| 10 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 11 | Jos had been right , Mungo thought . |
| 12 | Her gut instinct had been right : Zambia Crevecoeur had always meant trouble . |
| 13 | The relative lack of resonance of the boycott can only have indicated to Hitler that he had been right to keep a fairly low public profile on the ‘ Jewish Question ’ . |
| 14 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 15 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 16 | Within a month Wilson saw with her own eyes that she had been right . |
| 17 | Mother Jacobsen had been right ! |
| 18 | He had been right in his snap judgment — indeed an intelligent , educated individual . |
| 19 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |
| 20 | But he had been right . |
| 21 | The justices in the court below had been right to conclude that the police had ‘ reasonable grounds for believing that , if they were not present at the meeting , there would be seditious speeches and other incitements to violence and breaches of the peace would occur ’ . |
| 22 | He had hit Milward pretty hard , thought Henry , but he had been right to do so . |
| 23 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 24 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 25 | Old Josh had been right , as always . |
| 26 | It seemed that the doctor 's hunch had been right : all these problems had been due to Candida . |
| 27 | But the apothecary had been right , and by morning Anna was almost like her old self , crying at last to be fed instead of turning her head away . |
| 28 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 29 | And , of course , he had been right . |
| 30 | Two hours later , Kelly sat on the scales , reflecting that Cy had been right . |