Example sentences of "[be] [adv] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may though , have been just the right setting for those particular films . |
| 2 | Apache , already famous for his distinctive streetwear and chains , said : ‘ These are just the right clothes to wear . |
| 3 | 4 Danny packs oranges that are just the right size so he can get 38 in a box . |
| 4 | These too need a rich food supply to complete their development , and the newly metamorphosed toads , just a few millimetres long , are exactly the right size . |
| 5 | But they 're never the right size for that it wants . |
| 6 | I 'm afraid that my moment away from the phone also meant that I missed my opportunity to query whether I am really the right person for the job . |
| 7 | Perhaps they should consider whether they are really the right people for their job . |
| 8 | and that is , that would be exactly the right way to do it ! |
| 9 | From what you 've told me , your mother sounds as if she might be just the right person for the job . ’ |
| 10 | The aerosol droplets have to be just the right size : too big and they may get trapped in noses , too small and they tend to be exhaled without staying in the lungs . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd like Giles to get married and thinks you 'd be just the right girl for him . ’ |
| 12 | But if you 're prepared to take the risk of equity investment for the reward of a tax-free return , a PEP could be just the right route for you . |
| 13 | The planets and moons that do remain within this range have to be just the right distance from the right size of star , and should also be spinning , otherwise the side facing the star becomes extremely hot , and the other side extremely cold . |
| 14 | ‘ The fish market would be just the right setting for Fabbiano 's designs , but no one 's going to say so . ’ |
| 15 | But on the other hand , as much as Novell might be just the right tug boat to guide Unix to safe harbour , much of the industry 's optimism stems from the fact that Unix is no longer in AT&T 's hands . |
| 16 | " I do n't know that that would be quite the right thing to do . " |
| 17 | His approach to everything was meticulous , and his decisions were usually the right ones . |
| 18 | It was awfully sporting of IBM Corp to set up consultancy , systems integration and facilities management ventures in an attempt to put to profitable use the surplus skills of so many of its employees , and only curmudgeons asked if IBMers were actually the right people for the job : sad to say , the curmudgeons were right , and according to Computerworld , the head of the new IBM Consulting Group in White Plains , New York , Robert Howe , says that it is having to hire people from the likes of Andersen Consulting and Coopers & Lybrand , because as he told the paper , ‘ we 've tried IBMers , but frankly we 've had to send some home — some IBM people did n't get the notion of the service business — they did n't understand that we did n't want administrators and middle managers ’ . |
| 19 | What I am saying is not that culling is necessarily the right thing , but that these are genuine detailed practicable problems which must not be dismissed , as if they were easy , by solutions of the kind that I have just suggested . |
| 20 | There 's a comment on the saying that , these days in cases of separation and divorce , it is only the right child which is considered . |
| 21 | I believe that it is entirely the right direction . |
| 22 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 23 | This is perhaps the right moment to lay to rest the myth that the loss of sovereignty involved in membership of the EEC is no different from that involved in membership of any international organisation ( Nato is the example most often quoted ) . |
| 24 | ‘ It is morally the right thing to do , ’ said McFarlane , dropping it like a swift brick in among the parentheses and qualifications and regrets . |
| 25 | It 's exactly the right age . ’ |
| 26 | Many in Washington will disagree ; toughness on trade , they think , is exactly the right way to force Japan and Europe to open their markets ( see page 53 ) . |
| 27 | It was only after they had worked out the correct tautomeric form of each base and found that adenine is exactly the right shape to pair with thymine ( and guanine with cytosine ) that they thought of Erwin Chargaff 's discovery that DNA always contained equimolar amounts of bases in each of these pairs . |
| 28 | That is exactly the right word . |
| 29 | And " enjoy " is exactly the right word , because as the believer learns more about God his delight becomes more intense . |
| 30 | The Earth is just the right distance from a star , the Sun , which is of just the right kind of size . |