Example sentences of "and [v-ing] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You are what you eat ’ is a favourite maxim , and eating the right things is important in order to be healthy at every stage of life . |
| 2 | With regular brisk walking , and eating the right kinds of food , we should be fit and healthy without having to resort to extreme , fanatical exercise routines or slimming diets . |
| 3 | Keeping weight down , getting exercise and eating the right foods are important to beauty as well as health . |
| 4 | Pointing at the object and pressing the right mouse button displays each object 's properties . |
| 5 | Northampton social services department says the problem is one of finding and hiring the right quality people . |
| 6 | When he first fell in love with Alyce-Faye , Cleese revealed : ‘ I 've got this new relationship right because of a mixture of learning from therapy and meeting the right person . |
| 7 | Commercial manager said that finding and training the right people was not a problem . |
| 8 | Recruiting and training the right people |
| 9 | It 's been working with NeXT since January , tuning the software and getting the right hardware configuration — stuff like modifying its QVision board . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend is absolutely right to refer to the Government 's role in setting the right climate and environment and providing the right services for industry . |
| 11 | Remotivating individuals and providing the right conditions for business are the only ways to make lasting change . |
| 12 | Help her by arranging her clothes on the bed in the order she should put them on , and facing the right way . |
| 13 | The babies were developing properly and being well stimulated and doing the right things at the right age and they were really coping well . |
| 14 | in general there is perhaps a little bit too much of an emphasis on beliefs and saying the right thing — giving the right word . |
| 15 | When studying wild living apes , the contribution to this ongoing debate is a relatively easy one ( though it does require time and patience ) , consisting of making enough observations and asking the right questions . |
| 16 | But it but it 's often misinterpreted , as being of the right mind and having the right attitude , about understanding |
| 17 | Merely looking at one 's watch and giving the right time is usually enough to prevent the completely accurate recall of an unfamiliar telephone number . |
| 18 | It is not only a matter of picking the right players — schedules and choosing the right programmes will also be important if we are n't to be fighting out for seventh or eighth place in Dublin . |
| 19 | We are left in no doubt that fund-raising , and knowing the right people , are essential skills in scientific research . |
| 20 | The whole movie industry had become obsessed with achieving respectability by widening the mix of patrons and in the trade papers we see an almost frenetic attention to the small details of improving comfort and achieving the right publicity . |
| 21 | ‘ There is too much rhetoric and learning the right words . |
| 22 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 23 | Really it is a case of keeping a careful watch on the tank and making the right choices . |
| 24 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 25 | Stand and rehearse in front of a full length mirror , checking that you are smiling and making the right gestures , including liking your glass sufficiently high and forward when proposing the toast so that you convey enthusiasm . |
| 26 | After cleaning and draping the right side of the neck in a sterile fashion , local anaesthetic ( 1% lignocaine ) was instilled and a 10 French 35 cm long sheath ( William Cook , Europe ) was inserted into the right internal jugular vein . |
| 27 | A rebuilding job is now required and Alan Noble , as chairman , has the task of laying suitably firm foundations off the pitch and finding the right man for the construction work on the other side of the fence at Feethams . |
| 28 | Correcting faults takes time ; instilling good habits takes time ; and finding the right coaches as well as the right players to put all this into effect will take time . |
| 29 | And setting the right angle comes in rehearsal ? |
| 30 | We think evolution took place not by sort of hitting in one bang the right answer — that would be like the surgeon moving his scalpel a foot and hitting the right point , but by successive changes , changing one amino acid at a time , each change being a slight improvement on what was there before . |