Example sentences of "[is] [adv] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I believe that it is entirely the right direction . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | ‘ It is morally the right thing to do , ’ said McFarlane , dropping it like a swift brick in among the parentheses and qualifications and regrets . |
| 7 | It 's exactly the right age . ’ |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That is exactly the right word . |
| 11 | And " enjoy " is exactly the right word , because as the believer learns more about God his delight becomes more intense . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | For the average club golfers it is not the right exercise because it emphasises the shoulders too much . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Blame ’ is not the right word . |
| 16 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 19 | An officer who deals with adults every day is not the right person to deal with teenagers . |
| 20 | Now that kind of busy is not the right sort of busy is it ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | King 's Cross is not the right place for that sort of departure . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps now is not the right moment , ’ Flittern suggested . |
| 24 | Maybe eighteen is not the right age to be recruiting teachers . |
| 25 | of perspex is not the right material for the , for the box is it ? |
| 26 | But she hands over the money because this is not the right time to fight him . |
| 27 | ‘ This is not the right time . |
| 28 | A record balance of payments deficit is not the right background for enforced increases in industrial costs . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Simple profitability is not the right yardstick by which to assess performance . |