Example sentences of "is the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Siad Barre will celebrate — if that is the right word — 20 years in power on 21 October . |
2 | Lord Aldington denied it had been his first thought : ‘ Silence is the right word . ’ |
3 | In a two-year deal , believed to be worth more than £1 million , they will enjoy , if that is the right word , exclusive live coverage of the Benson and Hedges Cup as well as a highlights package including all England 's home Tests , one-day internationals and the NatWest competition . |
4 | In a two-year deal , believed to be worth more than £1 million , they will enjoy , if that is the right word , exclusive live coverage of the Benson and Hedges Cup as well as a highlights package including all England 's home Tests , one-day internationals and the NatWest competition . |
5 | I think ‘ deconstructing ’ is the right word for Muriel Gray because she 's quite spiky ; she 's very clear about her own views as a Scottish Nationalist and as a feminist ; she 's unconventionally dressed and she did ‘ deconstruct ’ television very effectively , albeit often quite didactically , on The Media Show . |
6 | He had proved during a thorough re-analysis of old observations that the coldest decades in recent history ; the ‘ Little Ice Age ’ of the second half of the 17th century , coincided ( if that is the right word ) with an interval when the Sun was remarkably free from sunspots . |
7 | Not that perspective — which denotes visual orderliness — is the right word , since the decisive characteristic of the 100-mile city is that whatever order it has is invisible . |
8 | RISC is the right word — DEC may have got everything right first time , but as a third party with a choice , you 'd have to be pretty desperate to bet the shop on it . |
9 | I guess spiritual is the right word . ’ |
10 | If diagram is the right word , we hope that it is like a set of arrows , or avenues , pointing outwards in some of the many directions an artist interested in photography might explore . |
11 | ‘ Little is the right word . ’ |
12 | To be honest , I 'm not sure if ‘ before ’ is the right word . |
13 | While Black Dwarf could trace its roots back , through Trotsky to Marx , or through radicalism to the Chartists , Gandalf 's Garden took as its theoretical base — if theoretical is the right word J. R. R. Tolkien 's Lord of the Rings , and tended to see the unfortunate Peel as its prophet . |
14 | The proceedings were enlivened by an intervention from the producers of King Mob Echo , which would have been Britain 's Situationist paper had not the local branch — if branch is the right word — been excluded by its international secretariat from membership . |
15 | ‘ In terms of my 30 years in stockbroking I think the past three years have been the most interesting , if interesting is the right word . |
16 | ‘ I do n't think ‘ retrograde ’ is the right word . ’ |
17 | ’ Lethal ’ is the right word . |
18 | The Clermont elections , if that is the right word , provide a startling insight into the appointment of bishops in a civitas , which , if it can scarcely be called an insignificant see , was certainly not one in the forefront of royal policy . |
19 | I had not the slightest inkling that they would emerge , which is why " emerge " is the right word . |
20 | I assume , Chairman , director is the right word , because we 've used it amongst all the other , we 've got the director of library services , we 've got the director of property services and what have you . |
21 | The proposal is that presiding elders and whether proposal is the right word , but the suggestion that presiding elders be appointed following our conviction that every local church should have regular sacramental worship with presiding with people presiding being allowed . |
22 | Do you think this is the right timing ? |
23 | For basic shapes though , and it is better always to start off at that level , the paper pattern is the right approach . |
24 | The county council thinks that its proposed provision is the right approach and it 's a balanced approach in line erm with Secretary of State 's previously e stated wishes . |
25 | He said the language used by Mr Major was out of date : ‘ I ca n't believe that is the right approach , that is old thinking . |
26 | She took the lift up to the sixth floor and came to the room one O nine , which was her room , as she entered she noticed cobwebs and dampness on the walls , she flung her bed , bags on the bed and went downstairs to supper , after her supper she went to report , she went to the reception desk to report the cobwebs and dampness , she rang the bell a few times but no one answered , she was just about to go back to her room when she heard Mr Sandy the receptionist in the back room talking to her assistant , I put the body in Miss Hall 's wardrobe , Jane ran upstairs and sure enough there was a body , Jane rang the police then straight away , please could you come to the Riverside Hotel , there 's something I think you should see , there was a knock at the door and Mr Sandy answered it , hello , oh hello we 've just had phone call from here , are you sure this is the right hotel ? |
27 | By conventional standards , it is true , the inconclusive ending is a cheat , but it is the right ending nonetheless . |
28 | I do n't know that the school 's is the right vehicle for this because in many ways , the children who are getting into these things pay more attention to the peer group , and it 's more important to have community groups , community cafes , things which are not seen as authority getting at them . |
29 | The real menace is the right shoulder , which at the top of the backswing adopts a potentially powerful position . |
30 | ‘ Music — if it is the RIGHT music — is perhaps the most important of all the means used to help to teach the art of moving well . |