Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Concurrent verbalisation was found to reduce balancing times for the right hand but not the left hand . |
| 2 | So you 're then paying the right premiums for the right amount of benefits you 're going to get . |
| 3 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 4 | Forget searching through cupboards and sheds for the right tool for the job . |
| 5 | attract candidates of the right calibre by wording job specifications correctly and advertising in the right places ; |
| 6 | As Dr David Owen says in his book Our NHS , by exploiting and accentuating the apparent weaknesses in the system , the media is at risk of endangering the survival of the whole service by making it unattractive to recruits of the right calibre and commitment : |
| 7 | The looping form of the suture lines is also characteristic Ceratites are typical of Triassic rocks and there are numerous related species differing in details of ribbing and suture lines Such ammonites are plentiful in marine limestones of the right age across the continent of Europe ( though not in England ) . |
| 8 | Quite apart from wanting pictures which will enhance the pages of their magazine and which will interest their readers , editors need pictures of the right size and printed on the right sort of paper . |
| 9 | The approach is similar : select sequences of the right length for your purpose ; set previewing tasks or questions ; allow time for follow-up discussion . |
| 10 | ‘ The French were fortunate in that they had vessels of the right kind available . ’ |
| 11 | John Arlott on the ageing Tommy Lawton is a gem , his human interest in the man capturing the genius of the player : ‘ He strolled on those heavily muscled legs into the right position and , once there , performed deftly and with ridiculous ease the movements necessary to turn or assist the ball … ’ |
| 12 | A number of MPs said they would continue to support Mr Clarke because they were strongly opposed to possible successors from the right wing of the party . |
| 13 | There are two problems here : getting the arms and legs in the right holes and getting the garment the right way round . |
| 14 | The week Donald White was shot , New York saw eight similar deaths : black students , good kids in the right place at the wrong moment . |
| 15 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 16 | However , to avoid irrelevant uncertainties that might result from relying on assumptions about particular situations , we offer in ( 5 ) examples that actually meet the unnecessarily strict requirement of inclusion on the type level , but which we might reasonably claim as sentences that could be used by ordinary speakers in the right circumstances : ( 5 ) ( a ) some of the Buddhists were sheltered in Islamic mosques ( b ) the carnivorous leopard has much larger teeth than an antelope ( c ) after the barren desert , Kano is like a garden 7.2 It will be immediately evident that the distinction between restrictive and non-restrictive does not concern any difference of intensional structure in the narrow sense , either in the relations involved , or in the nature of the elements related . |
| 17 | Are we teaching the right subjects in the right way at the right time ? |
| 18 | Chest x ray showed densities in the right middle and the lower lobes of the lung ( Fig 1 ) . |
| 19 | And obviously other criminal organizations with spies in the right places would hear about . |
| 20 | Semantic drill To give practice in putting words in the right contexts . |
| 21 | Mercifully , I was able to complete all I had to do within a very few days and I wondered whether the Sheikh had put a few words in the right ears . |
| 22 | His letter was hearty , breezy , man-to-man : let it never be thought , it seemed to say , that I am the man who can put your academic career on the chopping block by a couple of words in the right places . |
| 23 | Until the 1980s , the majority of nationalist conservative and ultra-right elements in West Germany made their homes in the right wings of the mainstream conservative parties , the CDU and its Bavarian sister-party , the Christian Social Union ( CSU ) . |
| 24 | There is usually no great profit on these transactions , despite the high rents achievable on the right kind of homes in the right areas for incoming expatriate employees of firms like his own . |
| 25 | When you have copied precisely bar ten would you please now finish bar ten by putting the tails in the right places . |
| 26 | ‘ We have made various recommendations for strengthening the rural school , but it is evident that effective re-organisation will demand the closure of schools which are ceasing to meet the needs of the community , and the creation of larger schools in the right locations . ’ |
| 27 | Resisting the idea that results should somehow be ‘ doctored ’ to reflect such circumstances , the Group fell back on the suggestion that LEAs or governors might be expected to issue statements that would put the results of particular schools in the right context . |
| 28 | Getting to know the organisers of pre-school playgroups in the area and offering them assistance with publicity through your newsletter are steps in the right direction . |
| 29 | Those are all steps in the right direction to make us more competitive ; and if we are more competitive , we can obviously sell more of our goods . |
| 30 | I welcome the fact that , when we are returned to government at the next election , pensions will go up by £8 and £5 ; those are steps in the right direction . |