Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
| 2 | The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it . |
| 3 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 4 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 5 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
| 6 | Note how the right leg is still flexed , but the see-saw has n't hit the ground , although the bulk of the body weight has transferred to the right side . |
| 7 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
| 8 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 9 | McAllister was never able to provide the influential play he produces at Leeds and I do n't think he likes performing on the right hand side . |