Example sentences of "about the right [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes well I 've often said Northampton 's about the right distance . |
| 2 | Practise makes perfect , so use them when you 're wanking or try them out on a vibrator , dildo or anything that 's about the right shape . |
| 3 | They 've got a body of about the right description and they 've gone to see Miss Morgan 's parents . |
| 4 | Pragmatism claims to risk error at least about the right issue . |
| 5 | Ask any passer-by for information about the right Stop . |
| 6 | We can also fail to be angry about the right things , neglecting issues , say , of Justice and truth in our world . |
| 7 | Or perhaps , not about the right things at the time or perhaps concentrating on . |
| 8 | So that 's worth bearing in mind , and how you handle it , I mean maybe the press officer makes an arrangement to facilitate the the actual contact , but the press officer , a good press officer is not a person who stops the press getting into an organization , a good press officer is somebody who facilitates the press getting into the organization in the right way and talking to the right people preferably about the right things , but if not the right things the wrong things to the right with the right people , if you understand what I 'm saying . |
| 9 | But now his intellectual horizons had shrunk to debates about motorways or endless conversations about the right school for one 's child , it was as if he did n't want to remember the Henry who had once promised a little more than that . |
| 10 | But we know that people disagree to some extent about the right principles of behaviour , so we distinguish that requirement from the different ( and weaker ) requirement that they act in important matters with integrity , that is , according to convictions that inform and shape their lives as a whole , rather than capriciously or whimsically . |
| 11 | We make no presumption about the right size of authority that will emerge in an area , but we expect that in most areas a system based on unitary authorities would be the most popular and effective . |
| 12 | Planning theory about the right size for towns is not good . |
| 13 | I still think the P A G is probably about the right size body is n't it ? |
| 14 | That 's about the right size . |
| 15 | when you feel clear about the right plan , check out any legal or practical implications and make sure your family and friends know what your wishes are . |
| 16 | If you are not sure about the right way to connect something in a mains power supply circuit , do not resort to trial and error . |
| 17 | This bald statement conceals much dispute about the exact relation between a cause and its effect , about the right way to define ‘ cause ’ , and about the nature of causality , both as a concept and in the world . |
| 18 | Mr Lang stated : ‘ I 'm not going to start answering specific questions about specific aspects of how one of the individual solutions we may chose will apply until we have reached a conclusion about the right way forward then we can address this issue and debate it fully , but as things stand at present I see no reason to have to change that law . ’ |
| 19 | In a sense such questions are about the right level at which to study memory . |
| 20 | there was general consensus among Scottish drivers that current speed limits are set at about the right level . |
| 21 | Hambledon District Council believes that insufficient regard has been payed erm to these issues erm in the structure plan alteration , in paragraph thirty three the P P G sets down a list of criteria erm to which local authorities er should refer erm , I 'll erm refer specifically to er to three of them and I and and comeback to them as I go through erm erm what I want to say , erm the first one I draw that I would draw the panel 's attention to is erm that the alternative of the expansion of existing towns or villages should represent a less satisfactory method at providing the land for housing that is needed , and it 's a rhetorical question really here , erm and w we would ask that erm if there has n't been a comparative appraisal erm of the two options , and how could there be , there 's no erm district or areas been identified , how can we be certain that one option is better than another under the terms of that er criterion , erm the oth second point we would draw the panel 's attention is that the proposal is a clear expression of local preference supported by the local planning authorities , and again I would emphasize there that Hambledon District Council objects , and the third one is the option of a new settlement in preference to the alternative would result in positive environmental improvements , and I 'll return to that erm briefly in relation to er to Hambledon , P P G twelve erm paragraph six one four that 's been referred to it , includes a check list of issues against which areas in for new development in general er need to be er considered , with particular reference for reducing the need for travel , erm amongst these issues that the P P G asked the Councils to take into account erm are that development should make full and effective use of land within existing urban areas , that developments er should consider development patterns that are closely related to public transport net networks , and in relation to housing , and that housing is located in such a way as to minimize car use for journeys to work , school , and other local facilities , P P G thirteen , and I would expect erm I would agree with what Mr Donson has said here , is that it it 's draft and obviously one has to put the appropriate weight on it , but erm this reinforces and expands upon erm established government policy , reducing the need for travel , erm I do n't think it 's necessary for me to go into er the quotes in detail , I think that those have been er been touched on , erm , however , I would say erm that Hambledon District Council believes that the advice in draft P P G thirteen is much less supportive of new settlements , it suggests that greater weight must be given to the environmental implications of the additional traffic generated by new settlements erm this is , erm we believe , particularly important in view of the fact that a new settlement for York is unlikely to be self contained , and by its nature many of the residents will still look to York for essential services , social links , and employment , turning to the residual requirement , erm we have a concern over this , erm clearly a new settlement is intended to mop up any residual requirement which the er policy sets at fourteen hundred dwellings , we 've heard evidence from York today that er the city can accommodate erm more erm houses than was originally envisaged , which brings the residual requirement to erm about the minimum size specified by the County Council as being erm about the right level erm to make a s a new settlement self supporting , however , we would point out that there is still the possibility of erm further peripheral development around York , the greenbelt local plan and Southern Ryedale local plan er have not yet been statutory adopted , the inspector has n't reported on those , we do n't know what he 's going to say about sites er which were at issue , or on the need for flexibility between the inner erm boundary of the greenbelt and the city , irrespective of course of what the inspector says , erm being not yet statutory adopted the County and Ryedale will still have the opportunity to consider , reconsider there policies there , but putting that aside for the present , erm even if it is established that er the requirement for nine thousand seven hundred houses erm ca n't a occupied by er can be accommodated by er peripheral development , erm this does n't it does n't necessarily follow that the answer has to be a new settlement , we heard yesterday in erm great detail that erm environmental considerations have justified a reduction in the rate of development in other districts , erm in the county , I would point out that a relatively modest reduction erm in the inward migration to Ryedale , Selby , and York , could mop up the residual requirement , if one looks at erm the reasons for the greenbelt it is perhaps surprising that given the importance attached to maintaining its historic form and character that this is not an issue erm that 's been considered . |
| 22 | Ideologies of this sort both prevent procrastination through excessive thought and analysis and reduce uncertainty about the right steps to take , thus increasing commitment and motivation . |
| 23 | Then discussion began : if it had been a man , and if he had died , the peace should be 10,000 dinars ; but Nuri was a boy , he had only been stabbed , so 2000 was about the right amount . |
| 24 | Thus , by overwhelming margins voters , in 1980 , believed that ‘ too little , or about the right amount ’ of public money was being spent on various problems : halting crime ( 94 per cent ) ; drug addiction ( 92 per cent ) ; health ( 92 per cent ) ; education ( 89 per cent ) . |
| 25 | That that 's about the right amount . |
| 26 | Well this is the what I keep reading about the right left divide . |
| 27 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 28 | Oh no , not at all , I had received help from the librarian before , but I did n't know any more for that … about the right techniques and so on . |
| 29 | And I think first of all , make sure you 've got it right , make sure you are doing things for the right reasons , and you are concerned about the right issues , but then , shout about it from the rooftops . |
| 30 | Even in the plan , though , I now realize , he wrote , there was a certain vagueness about the right hand side of both panels . |