Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I also have to accept that maybe I 'm not that versatile , so I have to make sure that I 'm in the right situation to show myself off to my best advantage . |
| 2 | A little later , I stood nervously beside my bag , hoping that I was at the right bus stop for Sligo . |
| 3 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 4 | I blinked twice , not sure that I was in the right country . |
| 5 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 6 | Those who wished to appeal more directly to fascist or nazi ideas would criticize her Christian and anti-German ideas , while stating that she was on the right track . |
| 7 | On the platform she was not at all sure that she was in the right place . |
| 8 | The LTA has increased its training staff and with the arrival of Tony Pickard and others it does appear that we are on the right road to success or at least start travelling in the right direction . |
| 9 | Everything that had emerged from the reaction to the two consultation papers it had produced ‘ confirms our view that we are on the right track . |
| 10 | The Society is always looking for new ways to improve its service to members and your encouraging response to the introduction last January , of a direct , one-category membership structure indicates that we are on the right lines . |
| 11 | But it was still comforting to have with us little Liena , our 19-year-old interpreter who was a very competent rock climber and all-round mountaineer , for she had climbed Elbrus in the past and could give assurance that we were on the right course . |
| 12 | So we swapped addresses with er , ca n't remember , it was a man middle-aged sort of man and er he then said ooh , well he said I still think that we were in the right in as much as if that policeman was supposed to have been directing traffic blah blah blah blah blah ! |
| 13 | So valuable is it that some scientists regard it as a scent and as soon as they detect it , they know that they are on the right track . |
| 14 | Work done by the Senegalese group has convinced Papert that they are on the right track . |
| 15 | Ca n't help thinking that they are on the right track and it 's we who are barking up the wrong tree . |
| 16 | If they needed further proof of their belief that they were on the right track , they were given it when they went to arrest Griffiths and were met by a hail of bullets ; after a chase in which Griffiths killed one man and wounded others , he was shot dead while resisting arrest . |
| 17 | Optimistic that they were on the right track , but aware that much still had to be done , first thing on the morning of Monday , 13 March Fleischmann sent a fax to Harwell and then talked on the phone the next day remarking that their information was incomplete , that they had much more to do before they would be confident enough and expressing irritation that they were being ‘ rushed into premature publication ’ . |
| 18 | You got Hi yeah , Himem , EMM , Smart Drive and C , so they 're in the right order . |
| 19 | It is necessary to check not merely that the ad has appeared , but that it is in the right place , and that it has been properly reproduced — the quality of printing can vary markedly , and this may well be the fault of the publication : in this case , some redress is due . |
| 20 | The warm reception given to Project 90 , designed by John Heffernan and Ken Greenley , provided positive proof to Ward that he was on the right track in his long-term strategy of building a separate and much stronger image for the Bentley marque . |
| 21 | His retreat was , however , purely tactical , for the hunter had got wind of his quarry and from early 1869 he began to lay his traps , with the certain knowledge that he was on the right track . |
| 22 | It was n't an enjoyable period of his life , but he stuck it out , certain that he was on the right track . |
| 23 | It 's forty mile an hour zone anyway , so he 's in the right and you 're in the wrong anyway . |
| 24 | But they just exhausted themselves after all these years — and I was in the right place at the right time , so they all settled on me to direct it . |
| 25 | How will I know if I 'm in the right place ? |
| 26 | THERE is one question to which you should always answer yes , provided you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 27 | And now Mrs Stych stood rather dazedly inside the front door and wondered if she was in the right house . |
| 28 | Our chart shows if you are in the right weight range for health . |
| 29 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 30 | If you are near the right markets , you may concentrate on horticultural crops for sale , but that is beyond the scope of this book . |