Example sentences of "look [prep] the right [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah that looks about the right sort of thing , cos it was fifty ohms and we 've put , I mean it 's not that much small you know it 's not going to let , it should let about half as much through as that lets through this should n't it ? |
| 2 | Certainly she had seen something moving in the forest that day on Ridgery Steep , something fairly large , something white , and Allen had failed to see it ; but then it was possible that he had not looked in the right spot at the right moment and that his failure to see it was an accident . |
| 3 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 4 | In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled . |
| 5 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 6 | Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool . |
| 7 | General announcements , group discussions or committees are difficult , the speechreader must look at the right place at the right time . |
| 8 | In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli . |