Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , you might be careful to plumb that machine in correctly , to use only the right powder in the right quantity , never to overload it and to have it serviced regularly . |
| 2 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |
| 3 | So I borrowed some money and bought a store of my own , a tiny place , a cigar store , but in the right part of town , and in the right part of the right part of town . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's the right budget at the right time from the right Chancellor ! ’ he said , apparently to suggest Mr Lamont will remain in office through the next Cabinet reshuffle , and almost certainly the one after that . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the right Budget at the right time from the right Chancellor , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 6 | Selling horses is my living , so it 's my job to try and match up the right horse with the right owner . |
| 7 | I 'm sure you 'll agree it 's a matter of going into the right stock at the right time . |
| 8 | As with model answers to mathematical problems , one can then see how close the agent came to finding the right alternative by the right route . |
| 9 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 10 | Starting each hymn on the right note was a great problem for most of us , but I found that if I did not think too deeply about this but started off almost instinctively I generally hit something like the right note , thanks to my years as a choir boy in Maidenhead . |
| 11 | Fitting the right lock in the right place will make a thief think twice — he might give up and move on to easier targets . |
| 12 | Although I 'm a strong advocate of the right tool for the job , for obvious reasons , not every d-i-yer owns a mallet , and even many carpenters exclude them from their tool kits . |
| 13 | I did the same with another strip around the right ankle and over the foot , so that it was held between the sole of the foot and the wooden backing of the old door . |
| 14 | So , please , if we are going to constructively criticise this aspect of rugby , let's do it on the whole instead of singling out individual countries and then , perhaps , some progress in the right direction will be made . |
| 15 | It is difficult to deny that there has been some change in the right direction . |
| 16 | For verbal ability , there was expected to be a right field advantage , whereas visuo-spatial ability was expected to have a lesser advantage in the right field indicating left field advantage . |
| 17 | There was a clear appreciation of the right time to strike . |
| 18 | This bar on the right hand side represents those sites where less than one hundred cases were performed during the eight month audit period , there were seven of these sites and they performed a total of four hundred and sixty eight operations . |
| 19 | After taking a direct hit on the right temple , Mr Loaf walked off and has not graced a British stage since . |
| 20 | Ledeen said he would remember ‘ to his dying day ’ these entertaining sorts of discussions , the search for a ‘ magical simultaneity ’ in horribly complex events : aircraft full of missiles entering Iranian airspace , money at that moment jumping by electronic transfer into the right account , hostages at that moment sprung from their prisons , ‘ and all kinds of things of this nature . |
| 21 | Progress can provide an interesting job for the right person with the opportunity to rise . |
| 22 | Having said that , does n't every club turn up for the wrong match on the right day at least once or twice a season ? |
| 23 | How could she expect to do a proper job without the right equipment ? |
| 24 | It depends if you 're in the right place at the wrong time or the wrong place at the right time . |
| 25 | Perhaps they 're not channelling this pride in the right direction . |
| 26 | New clubs with special shafts have now been bought in an effort to prevent fresh trouble with the right wrist . |
| 27 | This suggests at least some role for the right hemisphere in certain language functions . |
| 28 | This was explained by arguing that the neural mechanisms underlying both motor control of the right hand and the production of speech are located within the same cerebral hemisphere and thus the two tasks compete for limited neural space or processing capacity . |
| 29 | It was not a new idea , especially to the British who had long known the social significance of the right address or style of house . |
| 30 | However , he may well have made the wrong choice for the right reason . |