Example sentences of "wrong [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I get another star , thing is he does n't actually , I can remember them cos he can read them , I do n't know whether she 's got them wrong for the test it 's a bit of a really is n't it eh ? come on |
| 2 | Peter Preston , editor of The Guardian , said his newspaper 's main aim was to get the European court to rule that it was wrong for the Government to use injunctions to prevent publication of such material , on the questions of principle and cost . |
| 3 | ‘ It is simply wrong for the Government to suggest that on the basis of these raw figures it 's possible to make valid comparisons . ’ |
| 4 | We believe it is quite wrong for the Government to deny access to justice to many of the poorest and most vulnerable in our society . |
| 5 | However , it would be wrong for the Government to hype the Bill too much , and to raise expectations which they certainly can not meet . |
| 6 | Her own tastes were all wrong for the times ; she liked the flaying moral tracts of the Christian Socialists and a kind of violent wit that had hardly existed since Pope . |
| 7 | It 's more a question of nothing 's gone right , than what 's gone wrong for the Cherry and Whites . |
| 8 | Ca n't go wrong for the money . |
| 9 | The judge was entitled to conclude , as she did , that it would be wrong for the court to order that they should be moved once more to Australia with the possibility of yet a further move back again . |
| 10 | Mr. Philipson addressed an impassioned argument that it would be quite wrong for the court to vary the injunction at the behest of the defendants , seeing that they had flouted Morland J. 's order , as a result of which the documents had come into the hands of the Federal Reserve Board , who had in turn passed the information to the Bank of England ; and that it would be the antithesis of justice that the consequence of this misconduct should be the discharge of the very injunction which had been designed to protect the plaintiffs from these consequences . |
| 11 | Mr Taylor 's selection as candidate 15 months ago threatened to split the local party , when some said he was wrong for the town . |
| 12 | The Judge held that the prosecution had been under a duty to disclose the video whether it had been demanded or not , that the view the camera had was of an area of the club that was relevant to the res gestae , that the tape would have contained matters of relevance to the defendants and that it was wrong for the police officer to have formed the view that it was of no relevance . |
| 13 | So while it was wrong for the IRA to let off bombs in Northern Ireland it was quite all right for the DGSE to let them off in New Zealand . |
| 14 | Shoes always turn out to be wrong for the climate . |
| 15 | Surely all hon. Members would argue that it is wrong for the industry to be able to target young people . |
| 16 | You need only compare the scores after 25 overs to see what went wrong for the Scots , Bellville being 91 for three and Scotland 54 for three . |
| 17 | We will not support the Government 's proposals in relation to the maintenance of quality in higher education because we think that it is wrong for the people who determine quality in higher education to be the same as those who determine funding — |
| 18 | She was simply wrong for the job she had been obliged to undertake . |
| 19 | That , my Lord , the matter moves on to the fifteenth of October on which day er the plaintiff together with Mr attended Richmond Magistrates Court and obtained a protection order from the justices in relation to the premises and then on the sixteenth of October erm this was the day when things started to go very badly wrong for the plaintiff because Mr by now had returned from his holiday and come back cautiously , he apparently attended after his holiday and on this day Mr was told that , by Mrs that it was not possible to proceed with the financial er dealings that had been agreed between them unless the Frinton property was offered as security . |
| 20 | The hall at Blackpool is ideally suited to rousing speeches but is totally wrong as the setting for a question-and-answer session — which proved to be just as appalling as I had feared . |
| 21 | Malthus was wrong about the effects of unchecked population growth , as the optimists constantly remind those who look too bleakly into the future . |
| 22 | ‘ I am a proud man , Li Shai Tung , but not too proud to admit it when I have been wrong- and I was wrong about the threat from the Ping Tiao . |
| 23 | We have seen how von Frisch proved von Hess wrong about the sensitivities of fish ( p. 43 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , he was wrong about the origins of the First and Second World Wars , ’ roared back the teacher , who later gave his name as Mr Nigel Varley . |
| 25 | The audience , who knew for a fact that the Press had its facts wrong about the marriage , wittered on about ‘ ordinary people ’ being able to solve problems in the privacy of their own homes . |
| 26 | It has been wrong on unilateralism and trade union legislation and wrong about the man whom it picked to lead the Labour party . |
| 27 | As R. H. Thouless 's classical experiments on ‘ phenomenal Regression to the ‘ Real ’ Object' have shown , we can be wrong about the presentation appearance even when , short of holding a pencil at arm 's length and measuring , we are doing our best to be right about it . |
| 28 | ‘ You were wrong about the scandal , ’ said Sir George to Roland , with a complicated mixture of satisfaction and accusation . |
| 29 | Ingard , guessing wrong about the airport , put in an enormous tender to be sure of getting the land . |
| 30 | Maybe he was just wrong about the Fight Game . |