Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 2 | It is necessary for the painter to make the distinction because unless what he captures on his canvas is what Reid calls ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ the viewer of the painting will not make the right judgements . |
| 3 | They might or might not ask spot the point , they may or may not answer the right questions , but you 're in a marvellous point of view , position , to actually be able to spot angles . |
| 4 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 5 | Again he 's probably not eating the right things . |
| 6 | Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life . |
| 7 | yeah , but he 's not got the right letters |
| 8 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 9 | And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one . |
| 10 | The mayor continued his address , but he did not have the right answers . |
| 11 | He was due to be put down because he did not have the right ears for a show class pedigree corgi . |
| 12 | A company seeking to recruit in this specialty area would , if they used a search consultant , immediately reveal themselves as not having the right contacts in the market . |
| 13 | She told herself off for not being attentive enough , for not finding the right words to encourage him to go on . |
| 14 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 15 | The report suggested that it was not the ultimate loser 's fault that the judge at first instance and the Court of Appeal did not get the right answers , and that the loser should not be liable for the appellate costs . |
| 16 | I wanted to speak to her but I could not find the right words . |
| 17 | Even though words are my trade , I do n't know the right words . |
| 18 | When he gets well again , Thérèse thought : Madeleine wo n't let him remember , she does n't know the right words to say . |
| 19 | And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way . |
| 20 | They do n't do the right things . |
| 21 | Er , but any change you make to a computer system , is likely to introduce bugs into the system , so that it does n't give the right answers any more . |
| 22 | No you ai n't got the right ones |
| 23 | But … well , I have n't got the right shoes on or anything . ’ |
| 24 | Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results . |
| 25 | Erm er I was concerned when my Noble Friend said that he 'd looked up Hallsbury but that it did n't contain the right words , er er I rather wonder whether he looked up so to speak the right version or the last version . |
| 26 | ‘ Tyres could have really held me back this year if I did n't have the right ones . ’ |
| 27 | Mark says he was accompanied to the flat , but then realised he did n't have the right keys … he claims he offered to find Graham , but the officers broke in straight . |
| 28 | Or , having decided on a day 's menu , discovering that you do n't have the right ingredients to hand ? |
| 29 | TOP motorcycle ace Andy McGladdery faced a second operation because red-faced doctors did n't have the right tools to remove screws pinning his leg . |
| 30 | They stared at the floor for a few seconds then said ‘ You 'll have to come back because we did n't have the right tools . ’ ’ |