Example sentences of "about the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in the plan , though , I now realize , he wrote , there was a certain vagueness about the right hand side of both panels . |
| 2 | What about the right hand side ? |
| 3 | Out of D.S. Chambers and Michael Baxandall and some Italian scholars Robinson measures up Pound 's ideas about the right relation between artist and patron against what we know of how patronage in fact worked in the ducal fiefs of Renaissance Italy ; and when he deals with the closeness of Pound 's views on this and related matters to Ruskin 's ideas ( a theme common to all these essayists ) , Robinson dares to broach the too long forbidden topic of the poet 's antagonism — inertly received , so some would say , rather than considered — to Christian faith and Christian ethics . |
| 4 | They 've got a body of about the right description and they 've gone to see Miss Morgan 's parents . |
| 5 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 6 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 7 | But now his intellectual horizons had shrunk to debates about motorways or endless conversations about the right school for one 's child , it was as if he did n't want to remember the Henry who had once promised a little more than that . |
| 8 | If they formulate detailed hypotheses and produce elaborate questionnaires or interview schedules without first carrying out informal interviews they may well go off in a completely fruitless direction and have only themselves to blame when they end up with several hundred completed forms , none of which have asked the right questions about the right key factors . |
| 9 | Oh no , not at all , I had received help from the librarian before , but I did n't know any more for that … about the right techniques and so on . |
| 10 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 11 | The nut on the Rockwood is made from bone-substitute plastic and is well cut to about the right height . |
| 12 | Most natural minerals are brittle because they are more or less homogeneous but it happens that a few have cleavage planes of about the right strength . |
| 13 | We can also fail to be angry about the right things , neglecting issues , say , of Justice and truth in our world . |
| 14 | In my mind 16 is about the right age . |
| 15 | Then the reports began to flood in … a fair-haired , blue-eyed toddler of about the right age , always in the company of a Greek couple much too old to be his natural parents . |
| 16 | when you feel clear about the right plan , check out any legal or practical implications and make sure your family and friends know what your wishes are . |
| 17 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 18 | Thus , by overwhelming margins voters , in 1980 , believed that ‘ too little , or about the right amount ’ of public money was being spent on various problems : halting crime ( 94 per cent ) ; drug addiction ( 92 per cent ) ; health ( 92 per cent ) ; education ( 89 per cent ) . |
| 19 | Ask any passer-by for information about the right Stop . |
| 20 | This bald statement conceals much dispute about the exact relation between a cause and its effect , about the right way to define ‘ cause ’ , and about the nature of causality , both as a concept and in the world . |
| 21 | That that 's about the right amount . |
| 22 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 23 | In real life it is really not very likely that six people ( and six is about the right number , pushing upwards to eight and down to a minimum of three , though you have to be skilled to have that few ) will each have good reason for committing the same murder . |
| 24 | ‘ There are three tall trees , ’ he said , ‘ in about the right place . |
| 25 | We need , last year , fo we found ab was about the right length . |
| 26 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 27 | ‘ Is he about the right age to have worked with Mills ? ’ |
| 28 | or about the right number ? |
| 29 | Ideologies of this sort both prevent procrastination through excessive thought and analysis and reduce uncertainty about the right steps to take , thus increasing commitment and motivation . |
| 30 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |