Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 2 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 3 | In other words , if a minister does not know the right question to ask MI5 about a particular operation or allegation then MI5 will not volunteer any information on its own . |
| 4 | The organisers did not provide the right equipment for the Stourbridge band . |
| 5 | She did n't have any idea of the way you eased into queries of this sort , and to have a jukebox banging out the Rolling Stones would not provide the right background . |
| 6 | yeah , if a single carriageway or has four more lanes , do not use the right hand path , you use that one and that one , but do n't use them two |
| 7 | Our problem is not that we have the wrong answers to particular doubts but that we do not have the right attitude to doubt in general . |
| 8 | I telephoned Burakovsky , who ordered the child to be brought in , examined her , but said there was nothing they could do because , unfortunately , they did not have the right kind of specialists . |
| 9 | Some of the smaller , poorer countries may not have the right equipment or training for the new types of job . |
| 10 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 11 | In addition , there are some excellent hypnotherapists who just do not have the right personality to work in the field of past-life regression — and , of course , there are others who simply do not wish to . |
| 12 | Other animals living today are , in some sense , failed evolutionary experiments that approximate to us but do not reach the right level . |
| 13 | But in an election the facts speak for themselves ; if you do not get the right message across to the right people , you lose . |
| 14 | Fletcher is clearly concerned that some of England 's key players would not get the right amount of rest before the start of the new season . |
| 15 | Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them |
| 16 | We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them . |
| 17 | It stands to reason that you can not find the right person to do a job unless you know yourself exactly what that job is . |
| 18 | I thought for a moment , but could not find the right answer . |
| 19 | I 'm sure they are in a mess and perhaps you will not find the right thing , after all . ’ |
| 20 | She said sometimes , of school , ‘ But I ca n't make the right conversation , ’ and it was true . |
| 21 | He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’ |
| 22 | You can make hard work of an easy job if you do n't know the right way to go . |
| 23 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 24 | Caught it … but did n't catch the right part of it … |
| 25 | Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away . |
| 26 | We we were brought up to believe that if you did n't do the right thing you would be punished . |
| 27 | ‘ I can remember phone numbers , decks of cards , all the Olympic medal-winners going back a century but I could n't remember the right day on which to turn up — at least I was n't a week late . ’ |
| 28 | He just did n't look the right sort of boy — in the bathroom mirror he saw his wishy-washy face , freckled and slightly spotty , his wishy-washy blue eyes staring mournfully back ; in no way did the image relate to the brown , sparkling athletes who drank beer after a game of soccer in the commercials . |
| 29 | A SHORT-SIGHTED burglar tried to break into an optician 's but could n't see the right way in . |
| 30 | Skill is one of the most important elements in the champion 's make-up , because if he ca n't perform the right technique at the right time and in the right way , he will never make it to the winner 's rostrum . |