Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local authorities must be sure they are providing the right care for children , and with increasing pressure on budgets they must know the money is well spent . |
| 2 | Students are often uncertain whether they are taking the right kind of notes to help them survive and succeed at college . |
| 3 | This way , they may reason , they can get to the heart of the supplier 's promotional and sales pitch , and reassure themselves that they are getting the right deal . |
| 4 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 5 | The specialists are then much easier to satisfy — providing they are given the right kind of food , they are content to sit and stare out from their cages , much as they would sit and stare out at their wild landscapes . |
| 6 | But experience has shown that it is possible to create elite , high-calibre long-term support teams if they are given the right leadership and training , an attractive physical environment to work from , good pay and conditions of service and , crucially , a set of realistic objectives about what they are trying to achieve . |
| 7 | It is therefore vital that they are given the right sort of care , so they can grow up to be well developed and strong physically , mentally alert , contented and emotionally stable . |
| 8 | Oriental rugs need room to breathe , and unless they are given the right amount of space they can either be swamped by the surrounding decor or become so overpowering that they detract from everything else in the room . |
| 9 | He believes politicians , church leaders , the judiciary and royalty have to question whether they are setting the right example . |
| 10 | Our technique is to make customers feel relaxed and make them feel they are buying the right car for their needs . ’ |
| 11 | He 's convinced though they are heading the right way . |
| 12 | They are doing the right things to find a book , but the book is n't where it should be . |
| 13 | Remember that your colleagues need your reassurance too , to confirm that they are doing the right thing . |
| 14 | But if they are to make the right decisions , they must realise that the promise will turn to ashes if a similar progress is not made by software engineers and those who educate them . |
| 15 | ‘ They are making the right noises about providing them , and each year the budget gets bigger . |
| 16 | It 's very likely to turn some of these children themselves into sort of er mutant monsters , er some of them behave extraordinarily badly , and yet they 're very sweet children when they 're eating the right diet . |
| 17 | I hope they 're doing the right thing . |
| 18 | The two families , who have had no contact and do not plan to meet , face a week of agony before knowing if they were given the right child . |
| 19 | We made the mistake of not having enough of our own practical management to check that they were doing the right thing . |
| 20 | ‘ If you stopped shopping the IRA would think they were doing the right thing , ’ said Susan Wooldridge , 47 , of Hungerford , Berks . |
| 21 | Thinking they were doing the right thing , some schools set out to understand and respond to the particular problems faced by children of West Indian origin — only to discover that their parents , dissatisfied with ‘ low expectations ’ and ‘ lack of discipline ’ , were setting up their own alternative , strict , traditional schools that their children were being sent to on Saturdays . |
| 22 | Curator Andy Saunders commented that the Museum had been ‘ agonising after they had gone into the sale ’ if they were doing the right thing with WA984 and E-412 . |
| 23 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |
| 24 | But Town take delight in proving people wrong … mind you they had to fight all the way against Wolves and there must have been times when they wondered whether they were going the right way … |