Example sentences of "find the right [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 Its taken the Williams team from Didcot in Oxfordshire three years and goodness knows how many millions to find the right formula
32 In practice the solution was to find the right placement for the children , rather than try to help the parents , child or care staff to adjust to each other .
33 They will have to find the right balance between rule by unwieldy committee and by a chosen few ( or fewer , as at Clifford Chance , which has a partners ' council but where power , in practice , largely rests with the managing partner ) .
34 The secret is to find the right balance in which the safety and high quality of the harvested crop is of paramount importance .
35 With ballads , it 's important to find the right balance between simplicity and activity .
36 He would try to find the right balance between the predictability necessary to protect the valuable institutions of legislation and precedent and the flexibility necessary for himself and other judges to improve the law through what they do in court .
37 I ca n't say I envy the director , having to find the right balance of youth and experience … ’
38 We 've tried to find the right combination of fluid proteins and … ’
39 Always practise on a sample of fabric first to find the right combination .
40 Working-class heroes have often flirted with delinquency in adolescence : it is hard to find the right channel for extraordinary energy .
41 Just as it is important to find the right pulse for a piece of music , so you must find the right rhythm by which to live your life .
42 He said : ‘ We have struggled all season to find the right guy but Lloyd Davies came up trumps when it really mattered . ’
43 But it was so difficult to find the right moment .
44 The implications for individual managers are that ‘ increasingly it will come to be seen as the individual 's responsibility to maintain , alter or boost his skills , to find the right market for his skills and to sell them to the appropriate buyer ’ .
45 However , I think we are more likely to find the right answer if we ask the right question .
46 You will also find that to generate the right question is usually more difficult than to find the right answer .
47 When I arrived at the shelter , I found the right man .
48 Of course , if she found the right man , and she loved him — Now why did she suddenly think of David Kent ?
49 Trevor wanted to get married , but never found the right girl .
50 Then , without thinking , she found the right corridor .
51 The engineer would have headphones on while Keith was blasting away ; he 'd move the mic around until we found the right place , then he 'd bolt it in the stand where the speaker 's sweet spot was , and there it would stay .
52 At last I found the right place on an island off the north coast .
53 It 's amazing what people would do , he said , if you found the right place to push .
54 They found the right house , and climbed the dark stairs to a miserable little room .
55 By the time the foal had tottered and swayed and nuzzled at Firelight in all the wrong places and eventually found the right spot to have a slurp of milk , Nails was surprised to see that it was beginning to go light .
56 In 1982 she found the right spot , in the harsh thornbush country of the Laikipiak Maasai , who live on the northern slopes of Mt Kenya .
57 For the first two and a half years of his life he was in and out of hospital until they found the right medication .
58 Glancing over , she saw he was deep in conversation , so she found the right amount and paid .
59 ‘ Well — I never found the right woman .
60 Since he was n't sure of the date , it took a little time , but there was no missing it when he found the right volume .
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