Example sentences of "[pron] the right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | " Strictly speaking , you 're going to be dead very soon unless you give me the right instructions . " |
2 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |
3 | Frustrated but secretly delighted that I had maybe caught him out with shoddy workmanship until an old fellow from Bernera stopped to give me a lift on the way past Carlaway and showed me the right ones , just before the main stones of Callanish . |
4 | But it was typical of Pound 's kindness , even to a potential enemy or rival , that he should have so persisted in trying to give me the right contacts . |
5 | That 's okay , she 's also given me the right words to use to put it through urgently , okay , cos I mean you , I know you have n't exchanged yet , but you want to do that fairly quickly . |
6 | Give me the right details for contacting your radio people at this end and I 'll be in touch before you know it . ’ |
7 | The Geophagus will tolerate London tap , but the Crenicara filamentosa and the Rams are doomed unless you give them the right conditions . |
8 | Give you the right introductions … " |
9 | Have you the right qualities ? |
10 | Now , before speaking to that person , whether your boss or partner , ask your mentor to inspire you and to tell you the right time , to choose the right place and to give you the right words and the correct approach — and to help the other party accept what you have to say . |
11 | I hope that figure is right er , I have to confess that I have not added it up and er the copy that I have , the five and the nine could be mistaken for other figures , but I hope that there the right figures to that must be added first the general damages a calculation which like all by other calculations need to be carefully checked , I would er calculate the interest on general damages to date would be five thousand , two hundred and seven pounds future care totals six hundred and twelve thousand , five hundred and seventeen pounds suitable accommodation , seventy one thousand , one hundred and fifty two pounds , transport costs thirty nine thousand , eight hundred and sixty six pounds , that makes a total of one million , two hundred and six thousand , three hundred and thirty eight pounds that is the amount which I would be minding to award , I understand that the parties in the light of that would wish to have further discussions about the matter |
12 | And are they the right conditions ? |
13 | But are they the right questions ? |
14 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
15 | Integrity becomes a political ideal when we make the same demand of the state or community taken to be a moral agent , when we insist that the state act on a single , coherent set of principles even when its citizens are divided about what the right principles of justice and fairness really are . |
16 | Think , for example , about Scottish dancing , which one comes to understand as one learns what the right steps are . |
17 | And it gives us the right answers . |