Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | If ethics and the interests of the business conflict , managers and employees are invariably told that they must always do the right thing — for no other reason than that it is right . |
| 2 | The working man 's shoe must also set the right tone . |
| 3 | Hopefully we 'll also get the right result . |
| 4 | But this too might fail to expose the error , for the stranger might simply guess the right answers , or his answers might be so close to those expected of him that even the most scrupulous interrogator would be deceived . |
| 5 | Population was increasing , trade and industry growing ; it was an expanding economy with wonderful new opportunities for making money if one could only strike the right spot . |
| 6 | ‘ Socialistic ’ rather than socialist , he tells himself he would belong to a political party if he could just find the right one to join . |
| 7 | Charlie could still picture the right waist gunner , Charles Paceley , standing at the right waist gun . |
| 8 | Now , at forty-odd , she could still play the right kind of romantic lead , given a sufficiently elderly and/or bisexual co-star … |
| 9 | used to teach there and she 'd probably know the right person to write to . |
| 10 | He says it not because , like the right hon. Lady , he challenges his party , but because he is afraid of his party — and one could never accuse the right hon. Lady of that . |
| 11 | Again she saw Gazzer in her mind , laughing with Bella , clowning around , never taking anything seriously and she knew that she could never find the right words to convince Bella that he was dangerous . |
| 12 | Coleman knew the power it could exercise behind the scenes , and went on hoping through the summer of 1990 that Control would somehow find the right strings to pull . |
| 13 | When the Arabic word would come roughly out of my mouth she 'd correct and correct — ‘ La , la ’ — ‘ No , no ’ — and would carefully mouth the right pronunciation . |
| 14 | No doubt the good doctor will always do the right thing , but can what the right thing is be stipulated in advance or written down ? |
| 15 | Hopefully this time we will also get the right result . ’ |
| 16 | The feeling of hitting along the hips will often produce the right kind of action , with the hips and body unwinding much earlier than the player imagines . |
| 17 | You will then have the right specimens ready and waiting whenever anyone decides to up sticks and move . |
| 18 | Erm the way you were doing it will sometimes give the right answer but the easiest way |
| 19 | He will never feel at ease with the French : he will never wear the right clothes ; he will never feel healthy on goose and red wine and he no longer wants to try . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It 's going to be hard because Spartak have got a lot of international players and lots of pace , but if we can get at them and the crowd get behind us we can hopefully get the right result . ’ |
| 23 | With so many contemporary scents to choose from , you can always find the right perfume for the occasion — and best of all , it 's never held up a the dry cleaners ! |
| 24 | You must also have practised these moves in a variety of combinations , using a small punchbag as a target , until you can automatically use the right move at the right time and distance . |
| 25 | Unless one knows in advance how information is represented in part of a brain one can neither stimulate the right combination of elements , nor produce the correct temporal pattern of activity . |
| 26 | I can certainly inform the right hon. Gentleman about matters that he does not seem to understand . |
| 27 | Escaping from the awkward embarrassment of arty people , in whose company I can never say the right thing , I went for a Chinese meal . |