Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] the right " in BNC.
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1 | The question remains as to whether British policy-makers can fairly argue that by fighting ‘ from within ’ , although they may not have entirely succeeded in limiting the battleground to issues of trade and markets , they have nevertheless ensured that the economic policy itself has pointed in the right direction . |
2 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
3 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
4 | Creaney , who now forms a new strike partnership with Andy Payton , and has nudged his boyhood idol Charlie Nicholas into reserve football , feels the Cologne tie has come at the right time . |
5 | Note how the right leg is still flexed , but the see-saw has n't hit the ground , although the bulk of the body weight has transferred to the right side . |
6 | ‘ Put it this way , if I was a woman I would like to bear his children , ’ said Depressed Milkman supremo Ged Backland , who has stayed on the right side of the copyright laws by using a pencil drawing of the Bettabuys boss . |
7 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
8 | Right femur , tibia and fibula and bones of right foot were in anatomical with regard to each other , the limb lying stretched along the right side of the trunk but with head of the femur close to the skull . |
9 | This is a relationship that always carries more seeds of hope in it than many others that break down ( or never get started on the right foot ) . |
10 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
11 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
12 | It just so happens that some people get taught or pick up techniques without too much problem ( because of circumstances and the people they interact with and learn from ) but some individuals simply do not get exposed to the right experiences to learn these things in quite the same way . |
13 | As they rolled on to the pound meadowland , Gabriel climbed down inside the cart so as to stay hidden until the right dramatic moment . |
14 | It appeared to have arrived at the right time . |
15 | ‘ You 've come to the right place , then , ‘ she said cheerfully , leading the way inside . |
16 | Conchis was no more than the chance agent , the event that had come at the right time ; just as in the old days I might , after a celibate term at Oxford , have met a girl and begun an affaire with her , I had begun something exciting with him . |
17 | It was only when I looked up to my right and saw the board that I realized I had come to the right place . |
18 | He knew all about unhappiness : she had come to the right place . |
19 | He was pretty sure he had come to the right restaurant . |
20 | He knew he had come to the right person . |
21 | Yes , I had come to the right place : thejumbo |
22 | They had come to the right guy ! |
23 | When he reached the corner of the Whitechapel Road he was n't sure he had come to the right place . |
24 | Although Darwin had turned in the right direction , he could do very little with mind and culture during his lifetime for the same reason that he was helpless before the mysteries of heredity : the basic information and modes of thought were lacking to produce the stable foundation which he correctly viewed as essential . |
25 | Aunt Fosters had died at the right time . |
26 | You 've got ta the right person . |
27 | By chance Rose had spoken to the right person as Taylor had been working with a hydrogen diffusion cloud chamber which is potentially well suited for such a task . |
28 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
29 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
30 | It came to focus on a headhunting approach to find this talent , not necessarily people who had gone to the right schools and universities . |