Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the right lines " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr ‘ Patterson ’ … patients here are very much consultant oriented , and no matter how much you may feel you 're on the right lines for treatment , they do expect to go along and see a consultant . |
| 2 | Right , you 're on the right lines . |
| 3 | You 're , you 're on the right lines , you 're on the right lines . |
| 4 | You 're , you 're on the right lines , you 're on the right lines . |
| 5 | ‘ Iris , if we 're on the right lines , Dora must be feeling pretty grim at the moment . |
| 6 | ‘ No , but you 're on the right lines . |
| 7 | You 're on the right lines . |
| 8 | No but you 're on the right lines now . |
| 9 | Any book on London that opens with Dickens must be on the right lines . |
| 10 | It may be said to be on the right lines , but at best it provides materials for an answer to the logical question , materials which it does not combine properly . |
| 11 | And he hopes future programmes will be on the right lines once again . |
| 12 | BRITISH RAIL believes it could be on the right lines for attracting more passengers in Cleveland . |
| 13 | It is that sort of falling-together that reassures you are on the right lines . |
| 14 | The head also needs to reward those who are on the right lines through drawing attention to successes , prominently displaying thank you letters on the staff room notice board , using time to convince , cheer , direct , push and urge . |
| 15 | The policies in train are on the right lines . |
| 16 | Still , things are on the right lines . |
| 17 | Previous application of this method ( viz. a 1-stage Delphi with interactive feedback ) earlier in this research programme has shown that many employers embarking often for the first time on strategic employment policy-making require some means of obtaining confirmation they are on the right lines . |
| 18 | The Society is always looking for new ways to improve its service to members and your encouraging response to the introduction last January , of a direct , one-category membership structure indicates that we are on the right lines . |
| 19 | Many people were along the right lines in naming the object as a hairdressing or veterinary tool , and among the more exotic replies were a Victorian music-box , a portable printing set and a wig maintenance kit . |
| 20 | It is nonetheless advanced as being on the right lines . |
| 21 | And , since there is no limit to the number of hypotheses that can fit a given body of data , what reason have we to suppose that we are capable of producing , and finding plausible , an hypothesis that is on the right lines ? |
| 22 | That is on the right lines , of course , since certainly we do not suppose that e would have occurred even if either cc or e itself did not . |
| 23 | Therefore , if the conditional theory of knowledge is on the right lines , you do not know that you are not a brain in a vat . |
| 24 | For instance , ‘ a building for lodging horses ’ is an adequate definition of stable ( or at least is on the right lines ) ; but while ‘ a stable-dwelling animal ’ might serve to identify horse , it is not an adequate definition . |
| 25 | My right hon. Friend is on the right lines . |
| 26 | Easthope believes that the modernist concept of ‘ impersonality ’ , later systematized in the New Criticism , and theorized by Wimsatt and Beardsley in their famous essay ‘ The Intentional Fallacy ’ , was on the right lines , but did not go far enough , as the author was not really banished . |