Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many a good dog has been ruined when he has done something good and , for some reason , not received the right response from the handler ; in other words , the wrong association has been created . |
| 2 | Cooking for one can sometimes be a dreary business , and many elderly people on their own do not eat the right types of food to maintain health . |
| 3 | ‘ He did not fit into Cheltenham and he did not make the right impression , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It is necessary for the painter to make the distinction because unless what he captures on his canvas is what Reid calls ‘ the appearance of objects to the eye ’ the viewer of the painting will not make the right judgements . |
| 5 | They might or might not ask spot the point , they may or may not answer the right questions , but you 're in a marvellous point of view , position , to actually be able to spot angles . |
| 6 | If Heisenberg 's matrix mechanics , or Schrödinger 's wave mechanics , had not given the right answers for the behaviour of objects like hydrogen atoms then certainly no one would have got very excited about them . |
| 7 | Again he 's probably not eating the right things . |
| 8 | British farmers are not producing the right kind of food for a healthy diet . |
| 9 | She complained that it was not feminine — a woman should show off her waist — and therefore did not convey the right image . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I had just not met the right woman before I met you that night . |
| 12 | Most of these universes will not provide the right conditions for the development of the complicated structures needed for intelligent life . |
| 13 | The organisers did not provide the right equipment for the Stourbridge band . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | yeah , but he 's not got the right letters |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | No , what I meant was I meant to buy it , I wanted to buy a refill for it , but I ended up not buying the right fibre tip pen for it |
| 18 | As I grow chrysanths we have to do erm I 'm not getting the right word . |
| 19 | We can blame the schools for not providing the right conditions , we can blame the government and local education authorities for not giving sufficient attention to in-service training , but I think the buck must rest with people like me who had by that date been employed in teacher-training for just over ten years . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one . |
| 23 | The mayor continued his address , but he did not have the right answers . |
| 24 | Some of the smaller , poorer countries may not have the right equipment or training for the new types of job . |
| 25 | He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ . |
| 26 | He was due to be put down because he did not have the right ears for a show class pedigree corgi . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sometimes , when writing we repeat a word unknowingly and when we read it again we recognise that our pen has slipped back over old ground : we have not found the right word . |
| 29 | Obviously a few spare fivers had not found the right pocket . |
| 30 | She began to look into alternative methods of treatment — natural remedies , hypnotherapy , etc — and resented me for not participating and not having the right attitude . |