Example sentences of "[to-vb] [prep] [art] right [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Erm I do look for opportunities to talk to people about God but I , I certainly think that you have to wait for the right opportunity because , if people are ill or very down , then it often is n't the right time when they 're vulnerable erm to try and erm talk to them about something .
2 The chief executive may know what change is needed , but has to wait for the right time to introduce it .
3 His only choice at present was to wait for the right moment to play his hand .
4 ‘ I had to wait for the right moment to tell Nicola .
5 Teachers need to take children 's ideas seriously , and avoid making them feel that they have to search for the right answer , hidden somewhere in the teacher 's head .
6 A freezer well stocked with little bags , each containing a prepared calorie-counted and fibre-counted meal , provides excellent protection against temptation to break your diet simply because you have n't had time to shop for the right foods .
7 These differences may reflect the influence of parental or pedagogic pressure to write with the right hand as compared with a natural predisposition to use the left hand .
8 Directors Share Protection provides for the shares of a director who dies to pass into the right hands .
9 You see , it 's not up to the participants to come in the right mood .
10 Whoever he finally chose would have to come from the right stable .
11 It turned out that Morais and Bertelson obtained a significant advantage for those stimuli which appeared to come from the right side of space .
12 Fight the flab with fat-burning aerobic dance which is another alternative for those who only want to shake in the right places .
13 The Thinker , already a winner of the race , stands at 20-1 , but he is difficult to train and even more difficult to catch on the right day .
14 A systematic and documented approach will be more cost effective , auditable and more likely to come to the right conclusions .
15 " Clever of you to come on the right night , " he said .
16 First , it is appropriate for those working with a child to try to communicate at the right level ; this means introducing language structures with which the child is already familiar and trying to ensure that the content of conversations is appropriate to the child 's ability to understand and to her interests .
17 It will probably not go unnoticed if you appear well organized at this stage , and it will certainly help you to appear at the right place and at the right time looking calm and unruffled .
18 Then , too , the forger will not find it easy to come across the right paper .
19 On a task requiring the subject to detect and respond to a small gap in one of the sides of a square Kinsbourne ( 1973 ) found concurrent verbalisation to lead to a right hemifield superiority and humming to lead-to a bias in detecting gaps in the left visual hemifield .
20 For around £5 each , DIY shops sell locks to fit any kind of window which makes them impossible to open without the right key .
21 You get the interest by inviting good speakers to talk on the right subjects and by your format variety and , wherever possible , the right kind of sparkle .
22 She understood then that if she had had leisure to listen at the right moment , she might have heard the faint , suggestive sounds of a third presence .
23 Men often believed that a woman 's modesty could be judged by her ability to blush under the right circumstances .
24 We are beginning to look in the right direction , and there is a genuine urgency .
25 Principles are like the moon that can be reflected in a thousand pools — if we choose to look in the right direction into a pool .
26 In part this has been due to a failure to look at the right parts of the higher order visual cortex , using the right stimuli .
27 If you have played DEFECT ( this means we have to look at the right hand column ) , the best card I could have played would have been DEFECT too .
28 It will soon learn to walk at the right pace .
29 Hanna showed that it was mathematically possible for such vortices to form under the right surface , wind and stability conditions and that such vortices would have the right sort of diameter , about 2 or 3 km ( I-2 miles ) , to explain the spacing of the dunes .
30 If you are going somewhere then you have to know where you are going in order to point in the right direction .
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