Example sentences of "the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing , the war was only a matter of a few years in the past and the number of potential suitors must have been severely limited , especially of the right intellect and calibre . |
| 2 | In the accident she sustained a very severe closed head injury , a mid shaft fracture of the right humorous fractures of the lower left radius and ulna and a fracture of the right femur . |
| 3 | The fracture of the right femur healed in six weeks with two and a half inches of shortening . |
| 4 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 5 | There are 77 airlines at Heathrow and the Government expect them to act as immigration officials to ensure that people arrive with the right documentation . |
| 6 | This is generally supplied by top dressing with direct-feed artificials , and there is no doubt that with the right moisture and soil temperature , earlier and more prolific growth can thus be obtained . |
| 7 | It was the only Italian name I could think of in a hurry and I did n't have the nerve to put on the right accent to go with it . ’ |
| 8 | Although broader than the days when Lord Rothschild described it as populated entirely by men who ‘ are aged fifty-three , live in the South East , have the right accent and belong to the Reform Club ’ , it is hardly representative of the population as a whole . |
| 9 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 10 | ‘ You 've got to have the right accent before you get promoted . ’ |
| 11 | Choosing the right bait for a particular water is important too . |
| 12 | If he had meant to distract her Luke Hunter had chosen the right bait . |
| 13 | The right ankle which he damaged was supposed to be his good ankle . |
| 14 | Full-back Tony Clement is also out after suffering a stress fracture of the right ankle and is replaced by Mike Rayer . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Alec scratched his head , then examined the right ankle carefully . |
| 17 | Carey went over on the right ankle during a friendly game with Armagh a fortnight ago , and is still gingerly finding his way back to full fitness . |
| 18 | Top seed and world No2 , Pete Sampras , withdrew from the men 's tournament in Scottsdale , Arizona , with a stress fracture of the right ankle which could sideline him for up to two months . |
| 19 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 20 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |
| 21 | Channel 4 's TV Heaven is the equivalent of Now That 's What I Call Music — shameless retro zeitgeist wank split into individual years and presented with just the right tone of sobriety and knowingness by Frank Muir . |
| 22 | The working man 's shoe must also set the right tone . |
| 23 | Do you use the right tone and the right words with which to express yourself or do you find yourself tongue-tied ? |
| 24 | Always visualise your audience when practising , as this will help you in choosing the right tone for your voice . |
| 25 | But before he could select the right tone and story-line for these particular circumstances , there was a diversion . |
| 26 | If we can build up this kind of detailed picture , it is much easier to begin to talk to our customers in the right kind of language , and the right tone of voice . |
| 27 | Business men in my constituency believe that the Maastricht agreement set exactly the right tone for business in the 1990s . |
| 28 | In contrast alto Ameral Gunson , replacing Carolyn Watkinson , grew with the performance and her recitative The Man That Was Lame conveyed just the right tone . |
| 29 | Not the right tone for this man , he sensed . |
| 30 | Talk a lot of rubbish in the right tone of voice . |