Example sentences of "[conj] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A confrontation between William Thomson and T. H. Huxley was good to watch , and showed that scientists did not always agree , even about what was evidence or the right way to argue : while evolution in the last thirty years of the century was generally accepted , there was no agreement about times and processes . |
| 2 | Doing the best or the right thing is central to the definition of agape love , because it allows us to see that love is not some sugar-plum notion — it is an investment in the future as well . |
| 3 | If you meet people from other countries , they understand what you mean if you say to do the legal thing , or the just thing , or the right thing , in certain ways , but it seems to me to be a slightly soggy , but nevertheless very important , British concept of doing the decent thing , which may be just , may be legal , may not be either of those two , but the British man has a very clear sense of what it entails . |
| 4 | The important thing to realise is that you should follow the shaping instructions from either the left or the right side of the diagram . |
| 5 | He found it hard to remember whether you had to position yourself on the left or the right side . |
| 6 | For the patterns in the basic pack and the pattern libraries , the left hand light on the 580 and the EC1 ( or the right hand on earlier models ) must be on for the effect to be what the designer intended . |
| 7 | There were some striking differences among the non-right handers with lesions of the right hemisphere , depending on whether the left or the right hand was used for writing . |
| 8 | " An ambassador " , wrote a member of the staff of the Spanish embassy in London in the 1690s , " should be specially careful to maintain the authority of his position and assert his prerogatives , as for instance in not giving the door or the right hand to any minister or individual , whether of his own country or another … |
| 9 | When a person is not getting their quota , or the right sort of strokes , they go out of their way to manipulate situations in order to obtain the strokes they need . |
| 10 | If this bracing action is not achieved at the top of the backswing , it will be caused either by the right foot folding over on its side during the backswing , or the right knee moving out of alignment with the toes , before or when you arrive at the top of the swing . |
| 11 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
| 12 | 4 Exoticism is never amiss in the bathroom , where the right tiles can create the effect of an Eastern bathhouse . |
| 13 | The application of the Treaty provisions to actual cases has led to the development of the following principles : Exhaustion of rights : where the right owner has put articles into circulation ( directly or with his consent ) he can not subsequently use his rights to prevent further dealings in respect of those articles . |
| 14 | Where at least six forms of entry ( i.e. 180 pupils a year ) could be secured , and where the right buildings were available , this solution was the ‘ simplest and best ’ . |
| 15 | It reminded me of Cenotaph , except the right wall overhung . |
| 16 | However , it is not clear that existing mechanisms ensure that the right quantity of floorspace is available in the right place at the right time . |
| 17 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 18 | To assist in the development of the scheme and to ensure that the right equipment is available , the RYA have over twenty fleets of junior boards located around the country for hire to clubs or groups wishing to introduce children to the sport . |
| 19 | Despite the undoubted pre-eminence of the left hemisphere for language in the majority of right handers , it is possible that the right half of the brain can participate in certain language functions as indicated by the split-brain studies reviewed in Chapter 3 . |
| 20 | Studies carried out with Japanese subjects suggests that the right half of the brain is preferentially involved in reading a certain type of material . |
| 21 | ( i ) to secure that the right land is available at the right time for the implementation of national , regional and local plans : |
| 22 | Though the commission could buy by agreement it had to have effective powers of compulsory purchase if it was ‘ to ensure that the right land is made available at the right time ’ . |
| 23 | Since HWIM 's acoustic-phonetic component can not be relied upon to correctly segment and label at the phonetic level , a number of alternative hypotheses have to be maintained to ensure that the right word has a chance of being considered . |
| 24 | Yes , that 's right but though I mean there are a couple of additional issues to that and that is that the the tabloid are pandering , is that the right word pandering to their collective view of what the Royal Family should be , a view that is probably wrong . |
| 25 | It is up to our families , our school and our parishes to ensure that the right values are conveyed to our young people , and help them to develop positive attitudes . |
| 26 | Follow this ‘ teaser ’ with a second release giving full details of who , when and where , and follow it up again by a phone call checking that the right person has got the material . |
| 27 | Even where it is positively established that the right person was questioned , who by being present at the time had the nominal responsibility for cleaning the surface in question , the true reason for the fault may lie elsewhere being the result of one or other of the following factors : |
| 28 | He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities . |
| 29 | On the other hand there is clinical evidence that the right hemisphere is better than the left in recognition of visually degraded stimuli even when these are letters and thus verbal in nature ( Faglioni , Scotti and Spinnler , 1969 ) . |
| 30 | These findings are unlikely to be due to some superior " tuning " for line detection in the right hemisphere.although Tei and Owen ( 1980 ) have argued that the right hemisphere is neurophysiologically more sensitive to orientation than is the left hemisphere . |