Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] be the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said : ‘ If … the court 's inclination at the end of the day is to interfere with the £600,000 award of damages , then she , for her part — although she does not fear a retrial and again does not relish it - would be willing to accept whatever your lordships should decide is the right figure . ’ |
| 2 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 3 | While ‘ one more heave ’ might have been the right response to Labour 's 1987 defeat , ‘ it is a wholly inadequate response to our 1992 defeat , ’ he said . |
| 4 | Edward Shevardnadze , who resigned as Soviet foreign minister last December , might have been the right sort of UN leader . |
| 5 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 6 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 7 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 8 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |