Example sentences of "[prep] the right [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Progress can provide an interesting job for the right person with the opportunity to rise .
2 This suggests at least some role for the right hemisphere in certain language functions .
3 These observations are consistent with findings with normal subjects suggesting a role for the right hemisphere in appreciation of the prosodic factors in speech ( Haggard and Parkinson , 1971 ; Zurif 1974 ; Blumstein and Cooper , 1974 ; Craig , 1979a ; Dwyer and Rinn , 1981 ) .
4 Two important stimuli to the search for the right structure for the NHS throughout this period were a concern about effective policy control in the face of professional domination , and anxiety about the extent of inequalities in health between social classes and between regions .
5 I spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug .
6 I had read many scientific books and spent many hours in my laboratory , searching for the right mixture of chemicals to make my drug .
7 This inner life is projected as a theatre for the right direction of energy : the soul in temptation is ready to leap into pride , indeed the devil himself is seen as a leaper constantly alert to seize his chance to get hold of the direction of man 's life .
8 My search for the right kind of toy cannon .
9 He called it a down-payment and said there could be a hundred times that sum on offer for the right kind of information about Alan Dysart .
10 We 've got hives full of honey for the right kind of honeybees .
11 He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago .
12 Affinity for the right side with pain and pneumonia .
13 Forget searching through cupboards and sheds for the right tool for the job .
14 Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be .
15 The child must type the sentence with the words in the correct order , and is rewarded for the right answer by the picture coming to life — John jumps on his bike and cycles to school .
16 The same subjects who showed an advantage for the right ear with pairs of digits showed a significant superiority for the left ear when the stimuli consisted of snatches of melody which had to be identified by means of a multiple-choice response method .
17 Nicola sighed , trying for the right combination of sadness and surrender .
18 But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education .
19 Greek governments have provided the usual tax incentives for the right sort of investment , and the usual cunning export subsidies .
20 What , therefore , might a ‘ good ’ book do for the right reader at the right time ?
21 In his slow crawl from the corner as he peered for the right number through the flooding windscreen , it had seemed an odd neigh-bourhood for the Fight Game : well-weeded drives , well-painted houses , the cars as recommended by Which ? and Ratepayers ' Association posters in several windows .
22 In this case , the researcher decides how many of each category of person should be included in the sample , but then , instead of selecting them at random from a sampling frame , the researcher goes out looking for the right number of people in each category until the quota is filled .
23 To develop a concern for the right use of physical activity in the promotion of health and fitness .
24 It is a matter of providing for the right amount of development in a balanced way .
25 So you 're then paying the right premiums for the right amount of benefits you 're going to get .
26 Much of the work was based , not on the single , but on the double page as the right unit for design .
27 The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion .
28 I will deal with the problems involved in regarding the way of non-violence as an absolute rule , or infallible guide to conduct , or as the right way in all circumstances without exception , in a later chapter on ahi sā .
29 He said : ‘ I have been waiting for the last three years for an opportunity like this and I see it as the right time in my career to take it .
30 Madrid is also seen as the right venue for other reasons .
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