Example sentences of "[verb] to have the right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Men can have one dark suit and wear it all day and no one will even notice , but women are expected to have the right clothes for lunch and afternoon tea and working in and then have some stunning outfit for evening .
2 It has impressed but it has to have the right tools if it is going to provide the safety that councillor referred to and the saving of life which was referred to by councillor .
3 They were battling against the odds because they did n't appear to have the right equipment .
4 ‘ You 've got to have the right accent before you get promoted . ’
5 ‘ You 've got to have the right bloke mind , ’ Yanto smiled at her , as she stood up and shrouded herself in his blanket .
6 You 've got to order , you 've got to prepare , you 've got to have the right environment — the character of the place — and you 've got to sell what you 're offering , for example .
7 She began to exchange odd words with the others , the Afghan 's owner , tall and bearded in home-knitted sweaters full of mistakes , the woman who ran a boutique a street away and her argumentative pekinese , and an Alsatian with a middle-aged man in dark suits and expensive shoes who looked like an advertisement for men 's tailoring , the kind who would be bound to have the right clothes for any occasion .
8 Mrs Donaldson , in last month 's letters page , certainly seems to have the right idea .
9 It was the main reason the party stayed so long the creature of the Magic Circle and the explanation for the exclusion , time and again , of otherwise talented party-members who did n't happen to have the right pedigree .
10 That is to say the curved members , such as ribs , were built up of naturally curving wood , chosen to have the right shape .
11 You have to have the right shoes .
12 First , it has to fall within our viewing window : we have to have the right apparatus to receive and process the information signalling the event .
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