Example sentences of "[be] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the right side of the Consul-General 's brain . |
| 2 | While ‘ one more heave ’ might have been the right response to Labour 's 1987 defeat , ‘ it is a wholly inadequate response to our 1992 defeat , ’ he said . |
| 3 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 4 | Now that has clearly been the right choice given that I think Motif has clearly achieved the ascendant over open look . |
| 5 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 6 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 7 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 8 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 9 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 10 | What 's been missing up until now , though , has been the right producer — early REM cohort Mitch Easter 's enlisted here — the cash to afford a string section for those weeping , sweeping passages and , crucially , confidence on the part of Moose themselves . |
| 11 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 12 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 13 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 14 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 15 | Edward Shevardnadze , who resigned as Soviet foreign minister last December , might have been the right sort of UN leader . |
| 16 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 17 | It 's been the right weather for ducks at the Henley Royal Regatta … but despite the rain and the lack of Olympic rowers , there 's been plenty of top rowing … the regatta continues until Sunday . |
| 18 | These can be useful for compression joints , provided they are the right size . |
| 19 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |
| 20 | Propagating streptocarpus : ensure leaf sections are the right way up |
| 21 | The school 's convinced that Vocational A Levels are the right way forward . |
| 22 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 23 | The final decision on whether or not you are the right person with the right franchise must be yours . |
| 24 | Learn what are the right kind of rocks . |
| 25 | Only you know which are the right questions for you to attempt . |
| 26 | But although his selected trio — Northwich Victoria 's Liverpool-born defender Jeff Parker , Warrington Town utility man Paul McNally and Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Norman Kelly may not be household names , he is convinced they are the right choice . |
| 27 | There are times when understated architectural solutions like this are the right ones . |
| 28 | Exercises 2 and 3 will convince doubters that our definitions of unc and unc are the right ones ! |
| 29 | The words ‘ style ’ and ‘ stylistics ’ have a great many meanings , and there is little point , especially here , in arguing about which meanings are the right ones . |
| 30 | What we 're talking about , w what we intend to talk about in July is not just whether or not our policies are the right ones but the practicality of implementation , which is actually the hardest bit of all to grasp , and what sort of things we might do , whether it 's about spending more money , whether it 's about influencing people , whether it 's about physically restraining people on where they should go . |