Example sentences of "[verb] at the right [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 2 | Finally , it is useful to check that the Compact is targeted at the right cohort of leavers . |
| 3 | Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God , and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured out what you now see and hear ’ ( Acts 2:32ff ) . |
| 4 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 5 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 6 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 7 | With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both . |
| 8 | General announcements , group discussions or committees are difficult , the speechreader must look at the right place at the right time . |
| 9 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |
| 10 | It is important that selection decisions are timed at the right moment in this chain . |
| 11 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 12 | … from now on , the Son of Man will be seated at the right hand of Almighty God ; |
| 13 | So Bartle may have been a corn spirit , christianised to become St Bartholomew whose day falls at the right time of year , or even a former village priest as has been suggested . |
| 14 | This course is very widely available and it is pitched at the right level for the medical teacher . |
| 15 | By long history the Bishop of Durham had the privilege of standing at the right hand of the sovereign throughout the coronation as her chief supporter . |
| 16 | Today it is one of the best automated factories in the world , with computer-controlled parts arriving at the right instant at each work station to churn out reliable personal computers ( ‘ PCs ’ ) for a market that is still growing . |
| 17 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 18 | In life , the right man to love hardly ever comes at the right time for loving . |
| 19 | A shot aimed at the right side of the green has every chance of landing in the bunkers . |