Example sentences of "[verb] at the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests . |
| 2 | You did n't see it at first , but you saw if you held you head at the right angle . |
| 3 | So , we 're in a pretty strong position to make acquisitions if they appear at the right price and they fit our strategic framework . |
| 4 | A good way of getting a neat mastic seal between bath and basin is to use masking tape , spaced at the right distance , on the bath and the wall . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And Africans — ANC leaders and trades unionists tell us , ‘ MRA has come at the right moment . ’ |
| 9 | This coordination of two developmental events , crucial to the formation of the eye , is achieved in some animals by the approaching eyecup inducing the lens to develop just where it touches the surface , and so the lens develops at the right place . |
| 10 | Finally , it is useful to check that the Compact is targeted at the right cohort of leavers . |
| 11 | The premium chosen , and the way in which it is offered , may pre-select a specific type of customer , but the offer can at least be targeted at the right market segment . |
| 12 | ‘ Right place at the right time . |
| 13 | Being therefore exalted at the right hand of God , and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit , he has poured out what you now see and hear ’ ( Acts 2:32ff ) . |
| 14 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 15 | It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled . |
| 16 | It is useful , when several people have to get together to collaborate on an activity , to make one of them responsible for seeing that this is done and done at the right time . |
| 17 | Are you looking at the right bit ? |
| 18 | Right , so we 're looking at the right price as well , O K , and what else are we looking for ? |
| 19 | A graphics display screen could be used to switch rapidly from one map to another ; this would have the advantage of economy ( in that costly high-quality paper maps would not be needed by each participant ) and would be one way of ensuring that everyone was looking at the right map at any particular time . |
| 20 | If you jump , yes you 're looking at the right place , but you 've jumped ahead . |
| 21 | I thought you said Oaklahoma was on yesterday , are you looking at the right page ? |
| 22 | These movements are preprogrammed " ballistic " responses whose velocities are determined by the anticipated distance of travel , ensuring that the eye arrives at the right place after a fixed period of time . |
| 23 | She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence . |
| 24 | Abnormal development may occur if a protein is not made at the right time or place , or the protein is defective or if too little or too much is made . |
| 25 | I extract significance from melodrama , a significance which it does not in fact contain ; but occasionally , from out of this matter , there escapes a thin beam of light that , seen at the right angle , can crack the shell of mortality . |
| 26 | It all came at the right time , she said , at exactly the right time . |
| 27 | ‘ You came at the right time to save me and Hawkins . ’ |
| 28 | Sometimes Julia accompanied her , and as they travelled home one day Carrie said thoughtfully , ‘ You know I never wished Ma dead , Julie , but I 've got to admit her death came at the right time for me . |
| 29 | It came at the right time . |
| 30 | Ghandi came at the right time , you know . |