Example sentences of "not [verb] [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Wearing a white beret in among Australians , New Zealanders and every type of nationality out there brought some great wolf whistles , which were naturally not received in the right manner . |
| 2 | If we look at management er procedures Could ask the question but I 'm , the mo more cynical of you will er not answer in the right way , what are management procedures ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Being a French-built helicopter , the rotors do not appear in the right hand window and vanish from the left one , as they would in an American-built machine . |
| 5 | It is like a large hemming stitch and must not show on the right side ( fig. 17 ) . |
| 6 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 7 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 8 | Of course , we sophisticated Westerners may think they are not asking for the right things . |
| 9 | Both male and female goats may be infertile for a number of reasons , ranging from the male having painful feet to the female not ovulating at the right time . |
| 10 | He told us to fill in this form , saying we had not gone through the right channels . ’ |
| 11 | You can not rely on the right questions coming to you on the spur of the moment . |
| 12 | This reluctance to share information is alleged to have led to several disasters where information was not passed to the right people in time , and where one organisation arrested the informants of another by accident . |
| 13 | I confess to having myself once described a particularly abstruse provision as ‘ something of a minor masterpiece of opacity ’ , but I regret it because I think that such shafts are frequently not aimed at the right target . |