Example sentences of "[not/n't] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |
| 2 | I guess it is mildly amusing to see Bolan 's head emerge ghostlike from Elton John 's piano as the guesting Reg hammers out ‘ Children Of The Revolution ’ , though probably not for the right reasons and certainly not enough to detract from the leaden weight of the music . |
| 3 | It is not for the right hon. Gentleman to ask questions about tax , given the very high public spending commitments to which his party is committed . |
| 4 | Probably not for the right reasons . |
| 5 | Loretta had the grace to feel uncomfortable , if not for the right reasons . |
| 6 | First of all , the available evidence is not of the right kind . |
| 7 | All aluminium saucepans including those from Buckingham Palace here collected in July nineteen forty but unfortunately it was not of the right grade and so housewives then suffered for the rest of the war and having to cook with inferior pans . |
| 8 | ‘ Yes , but not with the right people . ’ |
| 9 | Willis exclaimed , " Not with the right sort of woman in the room ! |
| 10 | ‘ Because I 'm not in the right mood for studying . |
| 11 | ‘ By his own admission , Gordon was not in the right frame of mind to play at Norwich . |
| 12 | The Scottish international has been dropped because he 's not in the right frame of mind . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'm not in the right mood I get very guarded and do n't want to talk to people . |
| 14 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 15 | Cohen 's results showed that masking produced a significant decrement in the left visual field but not in the right visual field , thus implying a superiority in rate of encoding for the left hemisphere . |
| 16 | Cohen 's finding that masking produced a significant decrement in the left visual field but not in the right visual field is not supported by the results of Hellige and Webster ( 1979 ) . |
| 17 | If these are not in the right position for your track , you can make fixings with special plasterboard plugs , but you should then avoid hanging heavy curtains . |
| 18 | If there are not enough lawyers , or they are not in the right place , knowing that a solicitor can be of assistance is of no value . |
| 19 | She had no prejudice against any of the Army 's trigger-happy desperadoes — not in the right place . |
| 20 | They are not in the right order . |
| 21 | No , I would n't class you as that exactly , not in the right circumstances . ’ |
| 22 | I know they 're numbered but they 're not in the right order . |
| 23 | They 're not in the right pair are they ? |
| 24 | She 'd pictured giving herself to a man , but not until the right time and the right one came along . |
| 25 | They did try to kill the piglet , but as they were quite frightened and obviously not from the right background , they were not very practical about it . |
| 26 | takes it but surely not from the right position . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's like Elinor says , you 're not on the right wavelength . ’ |
| 28 | and correct him/her if he/she is not on the right lines . |
| 29 | Otherwise , if the oil is not at the right temperature , you end up boiling the food rather than deep-frying it . ’ |
| 30 | Perhaps before this time the seas were not at the right temperature or did not have the chemical composition to favour the deposition of the lime from which most marine shells and skeletons are constructed . |