Example sentences of "[prep] the right [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't like the title , it 's probably done for the right reasons but … well … |
| 2 | Concurrent verbalisation was found to reduce balancing times for the right hand but not the left hand . |
| 3 | There was an area of bruising below the right eye but , although it was recent , Wycliffe felt sure that it had been inflicted some time before death — probably the day before . |
| 4 | A definition , along the right lines but too broad , is that an animal has signalled when it changes the behaviour of another animal . |
| 5 | It has a fearful chip above the right eye but it can stand a few chips . |
| 6 | The new Standing Committee procedure with the cross examination of Ministers is a preliminary step in the right direction but there is a great need for earlier involvement in the process . |
| 7 | ‘ We 're going in the right direction but I do n't know where the piste has got to . ’ |
| 8 | The Baker Plan of 1986 was a move in the right direction but came only after what the IMF called the painful adjustment phase of 1983–4 was over . |
| 9 | So I would say that the North Yorkshire er figure in summary , goes in the right direction but not far enough . |
| 10 | Sir Hector said : ‘ There was a general acceptance that we have to get things moving in the right direction but it is not easy to find a quick solution . ’ |
| 11 | He says they 're safe in the right hands but you still have to be careful . |
| 12 | It is then a relatively simply matter to pretend to put the coin in the right hand but secretly retain it to put in the collar . |
| 13 | ‘ His heart 's in the right place but he 's a bit mixed up so we 'll have to give him time . ’ |
| 14 | Still , he created two characters in The Lord of the Rings of particular suggestiveness , both of them originally on the right side but seduced or corroded by evil , and so especially likely to have analogues in the real world : these are Denethor and Saruman , each of them seen faintly satirically , almost politically . |
| 15 | Their idea seemed to be on the right track but the quantities of helium were never going to fill an airship . |
| 16 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 17 | Not just meeting the right person at the right time but also developing at the same pace so that you both have the same needs and expectations from life at roughly the same time . |
| 18 | I mean it 's going in and out at the right places but it 's also to do with childbearing O K. So George is changing the subject there completely kind of off the wall is n't he , er this comment ? |