Example sentences of "not [art] right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 2 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 3 | Election Comment : Not the right man for the job |
| 4 | Stirling appears to have told someone in R.A.F. Ops. about it , but of course not the right man . |
| 5 | its not the right day for pull overs any way |
| 6 | I could look at all these things and say that 's just not the right way to do it . |
| 7 | Now I think it was not the right way . ’ |
| 8 | What is definitely not the right way to build up a stock of components is to buy sets of components for projects , and to never quite get around to building them . |
| 9 | Maybe the correct answer is not the right way to describe it , but natural selection should at least lead us to a set of physical laws that work fairly well . |
| 10 | I am still opposed to it and er I just think that it 's not the right way to reconcile contradicting policies that we 've had . |
| 11 | It 's not the right way to go about things |
| 12 | Mrs Thatcher argues that sanctions are not the right course and only consensus will work . |
| 13 | In any case would not the right course require me to give his advice prima facie rather than pre-emptive force ? |
| 14 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 15 | But , it 's not the right kind . |
| 16 | It was the right result at Twerton Park too … not the right scoreline … |
| 17 | It 's not the right colour . |
| 18 | it would n't , it would n't look right , I mean we have got apricot white on the walls in the back room now , but I said , he , I think he feels as though , a definite pink is not the right colour for a room , do you know what I mean ? |
| 19 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 20 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 21 | Jennie was not the right person to whom to do this . |
| 22 | I had suggested that Longman 's should send it to The Criterion , but obviously I was not the right person to review it . |
| 23 | An officer who deals with adults every day is not the right person to deal with teenagers . |
| 24 | It 's not the sort of thing you should be doi , well , it could be the sort of thing , but he 's not the right person to do it , is he ? |
| 25 | and this man came up to me father and he says , that is not the right grave , you 've been told . |
| 26 | not the right size . |
| 27 | they 're not the right size , because the , the |
| 28 | ‘ No , it 's what you think , you must think , now in this moment — of magic — that 's not the right word — of spiritual power — it 's like a lightning flash — we will be all right , we two , for ever — is n't it ? |
| 29 | Some of the lucky ones took to their parachutes and spent the rest of the war in Germany — perhaps ‘ lucky ’ is not the right word , but at least they were alive . |
| 30 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |