Example sentences of "[vb base] not [verb] the right " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 We can not of course attract and keep customers if we do not produce what they want to buy , if we do not control costs , if we do not hire the right kind of people , or if we fail to motivate them .
3 Other animals living today are , in some sense , failed evolutionary experiments that approximate to us but do not reach the right level .
4 The people of Wales do not believe the right hon. Gentleman 's protestations about the so-called council tax .
5 But in an election the facts speak for themselves ; if you do not get the right message across to the right people , you lose .
6 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
7 And if we do not have the right drugs for a particular adjustment , research on orthodox lines will often find one .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 He believes that companies such as Philips , Polly Peck and Brent Walker suffered ‘ because they do not have the right information systems ’ .
11 Alejandro gets pissed off and shouts if you do n't do the right thing straight away .
12 They do n't do the right things .
13 He says : ‘ There is no place in the group for units that are subsidised or do n't make the right sort of return on capital employed . ’
14 Even though words are my trade , I do n't know the right words .
15 ‘ If you paid to get in tonight you do n't know the right people , ’ he snaps , in a litany of barbed missiles that sting hardened fans and industry leeches alike .
16 You can make hard work of an easy job if you do n't know the right way to go .
17 And being with Gittel was like — oh , I do n't know the right words-like the first day when the sun turns warm enough to start the ice melting off the eaves .
18 People said black dancers do n't have the right body , the right feet .
19 Or , having decided on a day 's menu , discovering that you do n't have the right ingredients to hand ?
20 ‘ The number of companies that do n't have the right picture is amazing , ’ Mr Desoutter says .
21 The back length of a rucksack is critical for comfort , especially when backpacking , and if you do n't have the right size you 'll soon know all about it .
22 The back length of a rucksack is critical for comfort when backpacking and if you do n't have the right size of a fixed back length sack you wo n't be able to share the load efficiently between hip belt and shoulder harness .
23 ‘ It should be every professional 's dream to play at Wembley but if players do n't have the right attitude in training you ca n't consider them .
24 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 .
25 And I know she knows , but I worry that maybe I have n't said the right words the right way .
26 ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right man yet . ’
27 ‘ Maybe you have n't met the right kind of lady , ’ Merrill murmured .
28 ‘ No , ’ I replied , ‘ have n't found the right one yet .
29 ‘ You just have n't found the right job for you . ’
30 Before , you might be able to say , if you have n't got the right results , you can get away with padding out your lab report and writing a lot of background , so that would bung your mark up a bit , but this year , you can do that and you still end up with a bad mark if you 've got bad results .
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