Example sentences of "the right [noun] [coord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although broader than the days when Lord Rothschild described it as populated entirely by men who ‘ are aged fifty-three , live in the South East , have the right accent and belong to the Reform Club ’ , it is hardly representative of the population as a whole . |
| 2 | There are two problems here : getting the arms and legs in the right holes and getting the garment the right way round . |
| 3 | Quite apart from wanting pictures which will enhance the pages of their magazine and which will interest their readers , editors need pictures of the right size and printed on the right sort of paper . |
| 4 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 5 | She was in a lift and the lift would n't stop at the right floor but kept going first up and then down , past the numbers she wanted . |
| 6 | He adopted the right test and asked whether in the circumstances this mother 's decision was within the band of what a reasonable mother would do . |
| 7 | Judge Wroath had applied the right test and come to a decision which he was entitled to come to on the evidence before him . |
| 8 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 9 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
| 10 | ‘ It was a matter of finding the right story and getting a script he liked . ’ |
| 11 | GUIL : Exactly , it 's a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can . |
| 12 | I do n't know who they are — famous men , dead and living , who 've fought for the right things and created and painted in the right way , and unfamous people I know who do n't lie about things , who try not to be lazy , who try to be human and intelligent . |
| 13 | He 's trying to concentrate on saying the right things and singing the songs . |
| 14 | Poor Mr Lamont did his best to rubbish what Mr Brown had argued , but his Shadow had said all the right things and hit all the sore spots . |
| 15 | " In the end , however , I have come to the conclusion that the learned county court judge adopted the right approach and did treat this question as one of degree and fact . |
| 16 | If we accept that , so far as most people are concerned , it is the left brain which is more highly developed , what can we do to enhance the ability of the right brain and to try and become more creative ? |
| 17 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 18 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | She remembered making the right sounds and moving like a puppet as the party began . |
| 21 | This mode has been associated with the right hemisphere and tends more towards passive , visual processing , during which the overall emotional tone if a situation becomes paramount . |
| 22 | whites studying blacks , you know , all those other kinds of imbalances in , in psychology in the social sciences erm which might be interesting erm cos like Guy sometimes says about erm when he was er talking to some er deaf people , well perhaps not talking 's the right word but communicating with some deaf people about their , about their problems , I mean this bloke said you psychologists are all the same you just think that deaf people need cochlea implement |
| 23 | I groped for the right word and found it' … |
| 24 | I 'm concerned that we give our three children the right education and lay down the best possible plans for the future . |
| 25 | When you do delve further into its manual you will also find HGW very helpful on topics like choosing the right chart and making points clearly in bullet charts . |
| 26 | People with mental disorder are no different from anyone else in wanting to live in good , decent housing , and local authority housing departments and housing associations are often willing to discriminate in favour of mentally disordered individuals in making properties available for rent , provided they can be assured that tenants will receive the right support and help from skilled professionals when they need it . |
| 27 | He sharpens the focus to the right leg and quickens his walk immediately . |
| 28 | 2 Raising the right leg and bending at the knee , twist slightly to the left . |
| 29 | The CPU is said to have some support for out-of-order execution of instructions , which requires very tricky circuitry to reassemble the stream in the right order and avoid dependency conflicts . |
| 30 | Whatever I use , whether it is a crystal ball , a pack of cards , or an article belonging to somebody , it is simply a stageprop ; something that gives me the right vibrations and helps me to see the right pictures . ’ |