Example sentences of "be [verb] the right [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a survey of 450 top UK companies last year , Touche Ross discovered that although the efficiency of financial consolidation is of key importance to senior management , few finance departments have any objective measure of their performance and know whether they are using the right tools . |
| 2 | If your graphs and charts are showing an overall decrease in weight , then you know you are eating the right amounts . |
| 3 | He needs to think of how we are to find the right ministers , men and women — to let people know that there is a vocation called holy orders , of ‘ unique difficulty and unique happiness ’ ; the variety of ministers , deaconesses , teachers in schools , lay preachers , monks and nuns and friars who belong to ‘ the praying heart of the Church ’ , without which its mission would not have the power of God within it . |
| 4 | Well you 're taking the right steps . |
| 5 | But the patrols ARE getting the right results … |
| 6 | They are doing the right things to find a book , but the book is n't where it should be . |
| 7 | But since the replicase is just a protein molecule like any other , the versatile protein-building machines of the bacterial cell can easily turn to building them , just as the machine tools in a car factory can quickly be turned over in time of war to making munitions : all they need is to be fed the right blueprints . |
| 8 | ‘ They are making the right noises about providing them , and each year the budget gets bigger . |
| 9 | For a while there had been a feeling that they were asking the right questions and that at any moment the individual answers would shuffle themselves into a significant total . |
| 10 | I do expect occasionally to have temper , because it is only when we are discussing the right subjects that temper will arise : if people lose their tempers it is because they are emotionally involved in the problem , and we are probably talking on a subject which needs to be aired . |
| 11 | The actions of human characters involve a whole grammar of visual signals which the audience will pick up if it is given the right clues . |
| 12 | ‘ The only way to create jobs is to create the right policies for long-term sustainable growth . ’ |
| 13 | In any event the purchaser will want to know that he is buying the right assets from the right companies . |
| 14 | Everyone is saying the right things . |
| 15 | All of which is a roundabout way of saying that what matters in this world is asking the right questions , rather than knowing the right answers . |
| 16 | Professional personnel specialists from the industry have been asked to comment on the questionnaire to ensure the survey is asking the right questions . |
| 17 | In advertising the purpose of research is to be able to plan the campaign so you know to whom you are talking , what you should be saying , which idea will best convey your message and , finally , whether that message is having the right results . |
| 18 | But it 's knowing the right things . |
| 19 | One of the difficulties for the disciplined packer is choosing the right clothes for different trips . |
| 20 | Keepers say he is making the right moves with five females at Cricket St Thomas Wildlife Park near Chard , Somerset . |
| 21 | The way to combat short-termism is to have the right policies for the support of industrial investment — policies based on competitiveness , lower taxation , good industrial relations and a belief in quality . |
| 22 | The better approach , in my opinion , is to eat the right foods in the first place . |
| 23 | What we must help students to do is to formulate the right hypotheses . |
| 24 | But if they are to make the right decisions , they must realise that the promise will turn to ashes if a similar progress is not made by software engineers and those who educate them . |
| 25 | During our discussions , we have raised many issues that need deeper and further explanation if we are to achieve the right results for Scottish education . |
| 26 | John Horam , of Fulham , a former Labour minister , believed the Chancellor was pursuing the right policies . ’ |
| 27 | We thought all we had to do was bring the right things from the Store , but we brought a lot of wrong things too . |
| 28 | Indeed some Americans were beginning to question whether either government was making the right choices . |
| 29 | Three quarters of local authorities did not follow up the Department of Environment 's advice and carry out checks to see if the tenant was receiving the right benefits . |