Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [prep] the right " in BNC.

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1 However , spotlights need to be positioned so that light falls in the right place .
2 A strong wind blowing in the right direction can put a metre on a high tide in exceptional circumstances , and the wind can also prevent the tide from receding as much as it should .
3 I can not conceive that the pathologist will trouble to look there for a puncture mark and indeed , prior to that eventuality , it does n't seem likely that the emergency team of paramedics they 'll send out from Brighton General will be well enough acquainted with the action of this drug to hit upon the right antidote in time to prevent her from expiring . ’
4 While some prodigies struggle without the right challenges and others burn out on reaching university , there are a few who face another obstacle — parental jealousy .
5 I suggest that the hon. Gentleman looks in the right telephone directory .
6 Anyway , they unloaded the sculpture with reverence , popped it into a transparent showcase filled with the right gases , made a number of loud noises expressing awe and admiration , and wheeled it away without having noticed a thing .
7 This suggestion seems in the right neighbourhood , for if checkerboard solutions do have a defect , it must lie in their distinctive feature , that they treat people differently when no principle can justify the distinction .
8 She sat humbly in the cold church , making some effort to get into the right mood for the service .
9 The body is made entirely from maple and features some token contouring for the right arm , and a bit more round the back for the ribcage .
10 Five years under Deng Xiaoping appears to have started the mighty machine rolling in the right direction again but , in energy terms there are a number of problems to be overcome which are mainly to do with lack of adequate capital investment and resources management .
11 Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes .
12 Sabine concentrated solely on making sure the appropriate pieces got into the right rooms .
13 Kimura also found that among normal right handed subjects there was a small but statistically significant advantage in recall of verbal material presented to the right ear .
14 We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury .
15 A good theatrical director knows that aggression comes from the right wing of a stage .
16 The skill of Hollywood was ensuring that the right actor went into the right story .
17 Maybe we 'll come across a friendly native with a forked stick going in the right direction and I 'll give him the big-screen smile and hand it over .
18 One — three months seems about the right time horizon for raising the majority of deposits .
19 He said that there was no full-hearted consent originally and that the 1972 White Paper presented by the right hon. Member for Old Bexley and Sidcup ( Mr. Heath ) explained that essential sovereignty would not be eroded .
20 First , the crossed auditory pathways inhibit the uncrossed pathways such that stimuli presented to the right ear arrive intact at the left hemisphere and stimuli presented to the left ear arrive at the right hemisphere .
21 In its place are three buttons set into the right hand cab pillar .
22 A good practice exercise is to make three-quarter swings , feeling that the left arm swings to the right shoulder and then away from it , and additionally then feeling that the arms swing to the right shoulder and then to the left shoulder .
23 It was enough to daunt most people , but she once told me that the only thing that dismayed her was sorting out their incredible mass of luggage , making sure that the right things went by the right route and that nothing was left behind .
24 And that leads to the third , less obvious , reason : the market-place itself , to work efficiently , needs consumers who know how prices compare , and who act on that knowledge buying at the right price , not buying if the price is too high for this to have an influence on prices , through traders who set attractive prices competing successfully against traders who set inflated prices , it is by no means necessary for all consumers to be actively price-conscious .
25 You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle .
26 Will my right hon. Friend contrast the judicious , prudent and honourable way in which he and his right hon. Friends are negotiating in the European talks with the cynical sell-out proposed by the right hon. Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) ?
27 At a hundred and seventy pounds seated on the right one eighty standing one ninety one ninety on the right seated , any more at one ninety , all done then at one hundred and ninety , two hundred two twenty two twenty , any more ?
28 Obviously many things might muddy the correlation between social structure and prohibited partners , but one piece of existing evidence points in the right direction .
29 That is , there are as many men dominated by the right hemisphere as there are women .
30 The fears that BSL consists of a limited , concrete visual language localised in the right hemisphere , can be discounted .
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