Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aristotle was right for the wrong reasons . |
| 2 | In a recent article in Current Anthropology , one palaeontologist went even further and stated that the molecular anthropologists were right for the wrong reasons , while the palaeontologists were wrong for the right reasons . |
| 3 | I even carried out a double-bluff of appearing slightly guilty for the wrong reasons , so that adults told me I should n't blame myself because I had n't been able to warn Paul in time . |
| 4 | ‘ They 're strong , but they 're strong for the wrong reasons . |
| 5 | Other people , he thought , probably found him funny , but funny for the wrong reasons . |
| 6 | How chagrined he would be to learn that she had n't sought the interview in the first place ; that had been just another of the wrong conclusions that he had drawn about her ! |
| 7 | If I have addressed this to the wrong department I 'd be grateful if you would pass my letter on to the appropriate person . |
| 8 | J , 22-year-old German anti-Nazi rapper , accompanies his ‘ Born On The Wrong Side Of Town ’ single on A&M with his first British dates at . |
| 9 | Some argue that valuations may yet fall further and that care is still needed to avoid paying too much for the wrong deal . |
| 10 | Often the brain does not find the answer , but produces more unanswerable questions , behaving like a washing machine with too much of the wrong soap . |
| 11 | There is little doubt that to have become obese in the first instance we have simply eaten too much of the wrong sorts of foods . |
| 12 | A certain amount of fat in your diet is good for you , as it provides energy and insulation , but too much of the wrong kind can be bad news for your figure and your cholesterol levels . |
| 13 | In the event of both protagonists in a conflict being identifiable with the wrong — that is , with the parental — values , the protagonist who most closely approximates to them will be protested against and the other , no matter how objectively wrong they may be , will be totally vindicated and absolutely right . |
| 14 | It 's surprising what can become dangerous in the wrong hands . |
| 15 | And if he feels that the French have an unfair advantage in that to them the words " whisky " and " scotch " are good selling points whereas to us they are just rather blunt or evocative in the wrong way then he can invent some totally new name . |
| 16 | Unlike most clergy houses , which had either too little furniture in them for reasons of poverty or too much from the wrong sort of inheritance , Canon Wheeler 's had just the right amount in the right places . |
| 17 | For once the Halifax was following others ; it admits that it paid too much at the wrong time . |
| 18 | The independent schools inspectorate , HMI , in a report published yesterday on the ‘ rather tentative start ’ of AS levels , said a quarter of schools were using these for the wrong reasons , often as a safeguard for weaker Alevel candidates . |
| 19 | And so he was flabby , soft in the wrong places , and short of stamina . |
| 20 | If the three colours are used for the whole fabric , the length of floats and buildup of these on the wrong side of the work can be a problem . |
| 21 | I 'm just thinking I 've got these on the wrong horizontal scale . |
| 22 | ‘ I left at the right time as I felt the band had run out of ideas and it was becoming motivated by the wrong things . |
| 23 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 24 | Though the current talk is about establishing multinational units and of creating a European rapid-deployment force that could be sent off at short notice to cope with unexpected contingencies , Europe 's armies have too many of the wrong sorts of forces , doing the wrong jobs . |
| 25 | Reformers were directing their energies , as we can see now , at many of the wrong targets , illustrating the typical nineteenth-century preference for moral campaigns rather than for structural social reforms . |
| 26 | I told her the brutal truth — how I 'd tried to buy a love-nest for us and got involved with the wrong property men . |
| 27 | Knowledge is not good in the wrong hands , and discovery can lead to trouble . ’ |
| 28 | Apparently they 're all in the wrong things . ’ |
| 29 | She had a track record of less than wonderful relationships , unpaid bills , and three hundred or so cassettes all in the wrong cases . |
| 30 | Well I 've done it but all in the wrong order . |