Example sentences of "have not [verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He clearly has n't achieved the right balance between ‘ mental skills ’ and exploratory delivery of those skills into meaningful situations . |
| 2 | The stranger rabbits seemed slightly disconcerted by his little speech and he lilt that for some reason or other he had not struck the right note in complimenting them on their numbers . |
| 3 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 4 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 5 | He had not learned the right lesson , however , nor did he have a solution to the problem that would be posed by the mud created by rain and his own artillery . |
| 6 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | yeah , but he 's not got the right letters |
| 9 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 10 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right man yet . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right kind of lady , ’ Merrill murmured . |
| 12 | ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ As I said ; you have n't got the right hide for command . |
| 14 | But … well , I have n't got the right shoes on or anything . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | yeah but you have n't got the right people now have you ? |