Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | And again she found herself thinking that maybe Jeff had been right and Guido was simply an insufferable bully , the type of man it would be all too easy to fall out with . |
| 2 | Shelley gazed as he sang , wondering if Dr Rafaelo had been right in saying that this act was only showmanship , with no genuine feeling or emotion in it . |
| 3 | But something deep inside told him that Bernice had been right . |
| 4 | But the girls ' whispering had been right . |
| 5 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 6 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 7 | David had been right , thought Juliet excitedly , as they approached the first of a row of huge old houses . |
| 8 | Emilia Frere had been right after all . |
| 9 | Doc Threadneedle had been right about the sex . |
| 10 | Perhaps Bragad had been right . |
| 11 | Maybe , after all , Cadfael had been right to speak so simply of ‘ poor Columbanus ’ . |
| 12 | Old Josh had been right , as always . |
| 13 | Dot had been right all along and Mrs Parvis wrong when she 'd insisted that it was all over bar the shouting . |
| 14 | Alexander had been right . |
| 15 | Good old Nate Springfield had been right about the existence of a tunnel after all . |
| 16 | His parents had been right , she thought with a small sigh . |
| 17 | Of course John , her husband , told Elizabeth that Ivy had been right about the fuse-boxes : they just had n't come to her notice , so she had to eat humble pie . |
| 18 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 19 | Oh yes , Jaq 's intuition to visit Voronov-Vaux had been right . |
| 20 | After all , McNab had been right , had he not ? |
| 21 | One glance was sufficient to show that the regular had been right . |
| 22 | There was no reversal of policy : Nkrumah had been right in assessing their relative positions on Africa , only now the Tories were out to show that they had shed pre-war Conservatism . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Durham Anti-Apartheid Group said the Labour Group in Darlington Borough Council had been right to refuse to see the delegation . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that , if there had been a contravention of section 3 of the Act of 1986 , an order could be made under section 6(2) against both the contravener and persons knowingly concerned in that contravention provided that such order was intended to restore all the parties to specific transactions to their respective former positions and that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of achieving that object ; that , on a contravention of one of the provisions of section 6(1) ( a ) , an order could be made under the subsection against persons knowingly concerned in the contravention provided that the steps ordered to be taken were reasonably capable of remedying the contravention ; that such restitutionary orders could be made notwithstanding that the persons knowingly concerned had received nothing under the impugned transactions , there being no distinction between the type of order that could be made under the subsections against a contravener and a person knowingly concerned ; and that , accordingly , the judge had been right to dismiss the solicitors ' summons to strike out the S.I.B . 's claims against them ( post , pp. 907C–D , F–G , G–H , 909D–G , G–H , 910D , 913D–G , H — 914A , 915C–D ) . |
| 25 | Nigel had been right about the rain , but she did n't hesitate . |
| 26 | Mr Barnes had been right . |
| 27 | The Conservatives have been right to warn voters that a Labour government would mean far higher tax increases than John Smith currently promises — either that , or Labour would not be able to improve benefits and services in the way people want . |
| 28 | Alain had been right , though , when he said she would finally come back and search . |
| 29 | For them , the time and the place had been right . |
| 30 | Her teacher had been right all those years ago , reflected Busacher . |