Example sentences of "[be] not the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher argues that sanctions are not the right course and only consensus will work . |
| 2 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |
| 3 | they 're not the right size , because the , the |
| 4 | I mean , they 're real words except they 're not the right ones . |
| 5 | The links are , to my mind , not close enough , and they 're not the right type of thing for this changed situation which we 've got . |
| 6 | However , table lamps are n't the right solution if you are a regular bedtime reader . |
| 7 | He said make-up was all very well for some people , but he hated to see it on girls who were n't the right type — implying I suppose , that I ought to wear woollen stockings and teach in a Sunday school ! |
| 8 | Lubor 's lips were n't the right lips and subconsciously she had known it . |
| 9 | it would n't , it would n't look right , I mean we have got apricot white on the walls in the back room now , but I said , he , I think he feels as though , a definite pink is not the right colour for a room , do you know what I mean ? |
| 10 | For the average club golfers it is not the right exercise because it emphasises the shoulders too much . |
| 11 | Some of the lucky ones took to their parachutes and spent the rest of the war in Germany — perhaps ‘ lucky ’ is not the right word , but at least they were alive . |
| 12 | ‘ Blame ’ is not the right word . |
| 13 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 14 | Maybe the correct answer is not the right way to describe it , but natural selection should at least lead us to a set of physical laws that work fairly well . |
| 15 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 16 | An officer who deals with adults every day is not the right person to deal with teenagers . |
| 17 | Now that kind of busy is not the right sort of busy is it ? |
| 18 | For example , a photocopier which would only be bought by office managers and which would need fairly detailed copy to do it justice would be a waste of money to advertise on TV because the number of office managers in your audience is so tiny , and TV is not the right place to put a lot of product detail because time is so limited . |
| 19 | King 's Cross is not the right place for that sort of departure . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps now is not the right moment , ’ Flittern suggested . |
| 21 | Maybe eighteen is not the right age to be recruiting teachers . |
| 22 | of perspex is not the right material for the , for the box is it ? |
| 23 | But she hands over the money because this is not the right time to fight him . |
| 24 | ‘ This is not the right time . |
| 25 | A record balance of payments deficit is not the right background for enforced increases in industrial costs . |
| 26 | Er the Residents ' Association erm feel that this examination in public is not the right forum to erm answer a question which has never properly been asked erm at the County Council . |
| 27 | Simple profitability is not the right yardstick by which to assess performance . |
| 28 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 29 | And time and time again the planning officers , and Mr said , this is not the right form to do it , we are a planning authority and it is a decision that has to be taken by the service committee . |
| 30 | It is not the right policy for this country , it is not the policy of the Government and I hope that the Opposition will make clear how many of their members support that policy of unilateral nuclear disarmament rather than a policy of secure defences for this country . |