Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 2 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 3 | Other animals living today are , in some sense , failed evolutionary experiments that approximate to us but do not reach the right level . |
| 4 | But in an election the facts speak for themselves ; if you do not get the right message across to the right people , you lose . |
| 5 | yeah , if a single carriageway or has four more lanes , do not use the right hand path , you use that one and that one , but do n't use them two |
| 6 | And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one . |
| 7 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 8 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 9 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 10 | They do n't do the right things . |
| 11 | Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . |
| 12 | He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’ |
| 13 | You can make hard work of an easy job if you do n't know the right way to go . |
| 14 | ‘ If you paid to get in tonight you do n't know the right people , ’ he snaps , in a litany of barbed missiles that sting hardened fans and industry leeches alike . |
| 15 | Even though words are my trade , I do n't know the right words . |
| 16 | ‘ It should be every professional 's dream to play at Wembley but if players do n't have the right attitude in training you ca n't consider them . |
| 17 | The back length of a rucksack is critical for comfort , especially when backpacking , and if you do n't have the right size you 'll soon know all about it . |
| 18 | The back length of a rucksack is critical for comfort when backpacking and if you do n't have the right size of a fixed back length sack you wo n't be able to share the load efficiently between hip belt and shoulder harness . |
| 19 | Or , having decided on a day 's menu , discovering that you do n't have the right ingredients to hand ? |
| 20 | People said black dancers do n't have the right body , the right feet . |
| 21 | ‘ The number of companies that do n't have the right picture is amazing , ’ Mr Desoutter says . |
| 22 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 23 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 24 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right man yet . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right kind of lady , ’ Merrill murmured . |
| 26 | ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ As I said ; you have n't got the right hide for command . |
| 28 | But … well , I have n't got the right shoes on or anything . ’ |
| 29 | Now the other side of that was a plea which came from our switchboard supervisor , which I 'll come onto in a moment , where she said people will often think that of her telephonist , but in actual fact , it 's because they have n't got the right information from people at this end , so there is another side to that story . |
| 30 | Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results . |