Example sentences of "[prep] exactly the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 2 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 3 | The Board of Trade meeting went off very well , with both Mr Murray and Mr Bushnell answering questions with exactly the right tact and diplomacy . |
| 4 | ‘ Hopefully , I 'll be doing the next Lemonheads album , ’ he says , with exactly the right amount of carelessness , ‘ but I really have to go and do my own thing as well . |
| 5 | As important to Tolkien , though , was that it is a word ( like ‘ shadow ’ ) which people use every day , and with exactly the right shade of uncertainty over whether they mean something completely humdrum and practical or something mysterious and supernatural . |
| 6 | Rather important that one you know , a street lamp out for six weeks , though I know it 's difficult getting in touch with exactly the right department and whose responsibility it is . |
| 7 | As someone who has championed the cause of renewable energy since the mid-1970s , I give a warm personal welcome to my hon. Friend 's statement , which I believe to be in exactly the right direction . |
| 8 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 9 | That I think you I think most people find it more difficult having to group the notes in the right , in exactly the right way . |
| 10 | Photographing food , especially in close-up , involves very controlled and precise technique — and the constant services of an expert home economist to ensure the availability of the products involved , in exactly the right state . |
| 11 | ‘ As far as I 'm concerned the collection is in exactly the right building . |
| 12 | I genuinely liked them as people , I loved their music , and I was in exactly the right place at the right time . |
| 13 | If you want a better-than-equal chance of success , you 've started in exactly the right place . |
| 14 | Your net intercepts them when they return from feeding and you must therefore ensure that the nets are set in exactly the right place — without the rabbits being aware of your presence . |
| 15 | He is in exactly the right job : streets ahead of most others in the UK in his number-crunching agility — ‘ in the country 's top 5 per cent , at least ’ , Bloch says — and ‘ unbelievably good ’ at critical reasoning , with a score of 90 . |
| 16 | ‘ He is in exactly the right frame of mind to do the business . |
| 17 | The music you need one bar of music line with those blobs which are the note heads in exactly the right places . |
| 18 | The same effect can be achieved with a small pair of school compasses ( which have the advantage that they can be adjusted to exactly the right size ) , but these are more difficult to use to get an exact line . |
| 19 | So I remind myself that it does n't really matter about things being put back in exactly the same place in the cupboard , or precisely the same brand of tea being bought , or the carrots being cut to exactly the right dimensions . |
| 20 | It holds the blade at exactly the right angle to achieve optimum sharpness , and it 's this that makes the sharpener so quick and easy to use . |
| 21 | He can claim , whether truthfully or not , that he had recommended clients to come in at exactly the right times . |
| 22 | Neither should one underrate the rig 's ability to work well with a processor in order to create the kind of modern guitar sounds which , in a mix , are voiced at exactly the right point to cut through … |
| 23 | And if we look at the planets of our solar system , lo and behold , every single one of them is travelling at exactly the right velocity to keep it in its stable orbit around the Sun . |
| 24 | The swinging leg has to touch down at exactly the right speed and lock straight in time to convert the kinetic energy into lift . |
| 25 | Obviously all the planets that we see orbiting the sun must be travelling at exactly the right speed to keep them in their orbits , or we would n't see them there because they would n't be there ! |
| 26 | Having coached Waikato in the New Zealand provincial championship for some years , Ross was looking for a new challenge and the opportunity to come to Northampton came at exactly the right moment . |
| 27 | Defending against smashes is even trickier — you have to press up and fire to jump up at exactly the right moment to block the smash , and sometimes the other player will fool you by just tipping a weak shot over your head ! |
| 28 | At exactly the right moment , just when Julia 's nervousness had reached its height , he looked up and fixed his prominent grey eyes on her , his handsome regular features flushed with temper . |
| 29 | We had to sail ( or rather motor ) the boat precisely along three straight line courses , changing from one to the next at exactly the right places otherwise we would have a most unpleasant encounter with Bogha nan Ramfhear . |
| 30 | The unpredictable English weather meant that delivering the leaves at the right time and at exactly the right stage of development for silkworms to thrive on them was impossible . |