Example sentences of "[be] the right man " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | ‘ I 'm the right man for this job . |
3 | Former Northern Telecom Ltd chief and alumnus of Burroughs Corp , Unisys Corp and IBM Corp itself , Paul Stern is now firm favourite in the betting on the next chief executive of IBM after the Wall Street Journal disclosed that there are strong objections to him from some influential IBM executives — if he 's got those people against him , he must be the right man for the job . |
4 | Yet he proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time . |
5 | He must be the right man . |
6 | ‘ Ron is the right man for us at the moment , ’ Caisley said . |
7 | ‘ It is leap year and I lost no time in popping the question as I think he is the right man to lead Claro and Grindlewood Park into the twenty-first century . ’ |
8 | Dr King believes it does in the sense that it needs change , and by offering that Clinton is the right man for the job . |
9 | Although Ian Wright will be included and is likely to get another chance , Taylor has yet to be convinced he is the right man to play alongside the Blackburn striker . |
10 | The question is whether he is the right man for the sensitive media liaison portfolio . |
11 | Yet further fumblings by Mr Major could haul Mr Clarke to the top job much earlier than that ‘ one more year ’ which , by Tory consensus , is now Mr Major 's time-limit for proving he is the right man to lead the country . |
12 | This depicted W H Smith as being accident prone — ‘ every time [ analysts ] meet the company there is another piece of bad news ’ — and weakly led : ‘ Brokers are also beginning to mutter about the effectiveness of the management led by opera buff and P G Wodehouse fan , chairman Sir Simon Hornby : they wonder if he is the right man to tackle the deep-seated problems at Do It All . ’ |
13 | Whether or not Harry is the right man for you , it 's not for me to say . |
14 | He seems contented — if he is the right man . ’ |
15 | I do n't think Giles is the right man for you , in spite of all his future expectations . ’ |
16 | Only time will tell if he is the right man for the job . |
17 | ‘ And he 's the right man to go in and get the truth . ’ |
18 | Thinking that maybe this man was the right man , that maybe it was him I should ask him for directions , him who would take me home or wherever it was I was trying to get to . |
19 | He had been informed that John Browne spoke with a stutter but the elder of the two men in front of him spoke with such pride and composure that Claverhouse doubted if it was the right man . |
20 | He was the right man , at the right moment . |
21 | ‘ He was the right man for the job . ’ |
22 | but Mr Clinton was the right man in the right place at the right time . |
23 | It has been said that what made John F Kennedy great was that he was the right man in the right place at the right time . |
24 | I had a gut feeling Eric was the right man for us and good value at the price . |
25 | But Denholm was aboard the Ariadne not because of his many connections with the highest echelons of society — heir to an earldom , his blood was indisputably the bluest of the blue — but because , without question , he was the right man in the right place . |
26 | He was the right man . |
27 | Prime Minister John Major believed he was the right man for the job as he was a former assistant prison governor at Wandsworth and Brixton jails and was chairman of the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee . |
28 | ‘ I felt he was the right man for the job in 1990 when he was appointed to succeed Bobby Robson . |