Example sentences of "in the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Red was in the right age-group and free . |
| 2 | As with many aspects of human performance , it is perhaps inappropriate to talk of ’ rights ’ and ’ wrongs ’ as in the right choice ( i.e. correct ) and the wrong choice ( i.e. an error ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I said to the grave digger , in conversation with him , ‘ Look , are you in the right plot ? ’ and his answer was the priest told him to dig the grave opposite Patrick 's but when he came along he 'd seen there was already a burial there , who was the sister Annie , but had seen this vacant plot next door , so he had dug the vacant one . |
| 4 | Projectionists had to be very careful to orientate the disc and to put the pickup in the right groove for the sound to be in synchronism . |
| 5 | You see , it 's not up to the participants to come in the right mood . |
| 6 | I 'd even go a step further than the physical necessities of being able to see and hear properly and say that the audience must be in the right mood , too , to receive the message . |
| 7 | The free wine really did put everyone in the right mood for the rest of the evening when you could sit back and be entertained or dance to the disco music outside on the terrace . |
| 8 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 9 | ‘ Because I 'm not in the right mood for studying . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'm not in the right mood I get very guarded and do n't want to talk to people . |
| 11 | Kate was n't in the right mood for him . |
| 12 | And just to put them in the right mood , they have now been invited to take part in an international competition at Market Drayton next weekend ( June 19–20 ) involving the United States junior team , Eire and Great Britain juniors . |
| 13 | But I did n't lose my rag , I was in the right mood to deal with it . |
| 14 | You can only do it when you 're in the right mood . |
| 15 | When the attacking leg is at full extension , the shoulders , the muscles in the right leg and the entire right side of the lower back and buttocks are completely tensed , and an incoming opponent , met by this sudden kick , shooting upwards from the ground , is immediately stopped dead in his tracks . |
| 16 | Watchpoint : If you are in the right category , but your weight has been creeping up over the years , then it would be wise to reassess your eating habits . |
| 17 | Ex-soldiers such as Mike would travel from one army to the other , hoping to be in the right army at the right time . |
| 18 | I had to run to the end of the course with a hoop on my head then put the ring on a pole , then on the way back I had to arrange the bean bags in the right colour hoops , then get in an old potato bag and jump to the middle of the course then I had to skip to the end . |
| 19 | Then all Paul had to do was put a tick under the right person 's name in the right colour for their shift . |
| 20 | Kitted up some five minutes later with a pair a good size too small and with a hole in the right toe , McLeish led his troops into action . |
| 21 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 22 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 23 | However , in order to make sure that the memory is in the right state , it is necessary to use a certain amount of energy ( to move the bead or to power the computer , for example ) . |
| 24 | " Get your peg in the right hole , missus , before you chip off the corners — and possibly even lay bare your embarrassment " . |
| 25 | He stood in it , his clothes and skin steaming , dripping water into the urine-scented callbox , called her number , listened to it ring , called again , saying the numbers to himself like a chant , making sure his finger was in the right hole on the dial each time . |
| 26 | To the north and west , in the right angle the roads made , lay a tree-dotted plain called the Banks of Knamber . |
| 27 | Advances in electronic and micro processors enabling fuel to be delivered in the right quantity and at the optimum time in the combustion process now allow an efficiency to be achieved that Dr Rudolf Diesel could never have dreamed of in 1892 . |
| 28 | Oh , you might be careful to plumb that machine in correctly , to use only the right powder in the right quantity , never to overload it and to have it serviced regularly . |
| 29 | They put up a prize at the awards ceremony they 're prepared to do all the art work for nothing or at cost price for the awards ceremony they laid on this evening for us now if three people turn up at their evening they gon na say as we putting our money in the right organisation |
| 30 | While falling way short of Amnesty International 's request for investigations into all ‘ disappearances ’ , this initiative is welcomed as a modest first step in the right direction . |