Example sentences of "it [be] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would it be right , then , to confine the fault element in murder to an intent to kill ? |
| 2 | By the same logic , can it be right to send people to prison because they have been found guilty of drunkenness , vagrancy , offences related to prostitution , and drug offences ( of whom there were nearly 900 men and 100 women in 1981 ) ? |
| 3 | They are emotionally strong : but can it be right , they wonder , to be so strong ? |
| 4 | How far can it be right for the judiciary , whom no one has elected , to assume the mantle of the legislature by inventing and applying to legislation , under the guise of construction , concepts of public policy which Parliament itself has deliberately refrained from expressing ? |
| 5 | Would it be right to conclude from the Prime Minister 's remarks about the limitations on deficits that he completely rejects the 3 per cent . |
| 6 | Would it be right to conclude from his remarks also that in place of the stipulations that exist — which are much too rigid and impractical to be accepted — he would allow the co-ordination of deficits by the market ? |
| 7 | Firstly balance , how can it be right that in future authorities , future authority should be evenly balanced between elected and non-elected members . |
| 8 | So he saw it , told nurse it were right in folds down there |
| 9 | Take your word for it … but from someone who takes 5 mins to find a toilet when being told and it being right in front of them ; - ) ) ) ) |
| 10 | There 's no chance of it being right , any good for B T . |
| 11 | And tho' I know the smooth curve of your naked shoulders , right now , and now it 's right , you are wearing a moth-mauve shirt and a chic built-up soap-opera heroine jacket . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's not a question of bringing them to more people — Emporio has never been for the poor — but of morals ; with the Nineties there comes a new thinking about how much it 's right to spend on clothes and I certainly go along with that . ’ |
| 14 | How else do we explain to Plant Managers and to Governments that it 's right for the Corporation to purchase products from non-European sources , but it 's wrong to supply European components to the United States because the US divisions would n't like it ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And soon I will discover if it 's right . ’ |
| 16 | But then I really do n't know it 's right for me to be helping you with such dubious assignations . ’ |
| 17 | I see something on a hanger and I know whether it 's right or not . |
| 18 | Imagine what it 's like if I say it 's right lip and he 's read it an inch left . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's right in front of us . |
| 20 | It must be pretty old , it 's right down in the chalk and yellower than my old Roman ring . ’ |
| 21 | It wo n't be very accurate in practice , because of difficulty in measuring the distances accurately , but at least it 's right . |
| 22 | Oh , please God , she prayed , shake Perdita out of this ghastly mood and make her happy again , and look after darling Violet and Eddie , and Gainsborough and Ethel , and please God , if you think it 's right , let me fall in love with a man who is n't married , who falls in love with me and do n't make it too long . |
| 23 | What you do n't get is her recent excellent EMI stuff with Ten City , nor ‘ I Do n't Know If It 's Right ’ , another early record that is surely an ‘ essential work ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's right in front of you . ’ |
| 25 | That 's one of the utopian hopes of the early seventies which it 's right to abandon — we should be more realistic , but that does not mean trapping people in relationships which are sterile or unsatisfying . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm sure it 's right , ’ Matilda said . |
| 27 | And it 's right : you 're not a service to pop groups , you 're there to be a good writer and to entertain people . |
| 28 | ‘ Aye , it 's right to tell a lie to protect a friend , Will , it is necessary to lie sometimes . ‘ |
| 29 | He stressed , ‘ We only want him to come if it 's right . |
| 30 | One I mean one of the reason 's that we 've actually changed these round and and do n't think it 's right is because the has a there 's been a cut cut cost cutting exercise within the building . |