Example sentences of "be [prep] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My houses have to be about the right thing , ’ he told Endill . |
| 2 | This takes us into the nebulous area of psychological assessment , but it is also the case that the supply of information must be of the right type and in the right form to enable human beings to respond and act correctly , especially the air traffic controllers and the flight crew . |
| 3 | The cheese will generally be of the right consistency in 12 hours if the cream is thoroughly good and the weather not too warm . " |
| 4 | At some later time they could , by chance , all be in the right half or back in the left half , but it is overwhelmingly more probable that there will be roughly equal numbers in the two halves . |
| 5 | You can do all your homework and be in the right swim during a feeding spell and then still miss the fish if you , for example , put all your baits under the far bank and the pack is moving up and down the centre of the drain or close to the near bank which in my experience is quite common . |
| 6 | Ex-soldiers such as Mike would travel from one army to the other , hoping to be in the right army at the right time . |
| 7 | The genealogical framework was the narrative , and it was essentially unconnected with any particular time : it was a sequence which had to be in the right order , and it explained how living people and the loyalties which linked them , came to be . |
| 8 | Yet actually , the scheme would still work within their framework if , say , the manager received one tenth of unc — the incentives would still be in the right direction . |
| 9 | If you try to do the sums and ask could you do all those changes simply by sort of species going one way and the other relative to these changes erm in their origins and then those species which happen to be in the right direction being selection by some kind of species selection , I think the answer is you just ca n't make the sums add up right . |
| 10 | But the new model should still be in the right price range for the Only Fools And Horses hero . |
| 11 | If we build on and enhance that experience we will be in the right position to face the new decade with confidence and vision . |
| 12 | The idea was that I should be in the right state of mind for the concert I was about to conduct . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The knack in dowsing is to be in the right frame of mind , not caring too much what answer you get , but at the same time having a clear idea of what you are looking for , otherwise you are opening yourself up to a very wide ‘ waveband ’ and things will get very confused . |
| 15 | So Saunders will be back in training with Liverpool today with Souness having to decide if the Welsh ace will be in the right frame of mind to face Chelsea tomorrow . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't sound to me to be in the right condition to spend time with Fishbane . ’ |
| 17 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 18 | We expect Jesus to be in the right place at the right time , therefore his choosing of male apostles was quite deliberate , which must have theological significance and definite implications for the ministry today . |
| 19 | However for pathogens to establish themselves in the human body they must be in the right place , in sufficient numbers and be sufficiently . |
| 20 | You have to be in the right place at the right time , you hear there 's a place going , then you grab it . ’ |
| 21 | He could be in the right place at the right time when top jobs come up for grabs next summer . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm not being modest about it , but I was lucky to be in the right place at the vital moment ’ , he says . |
| 23 | In some ways , the coaching world is like a jigsaw , in as much that when a piece of the puzzle which one felt was the perfect fit is found not to be in the right place after all , then it goes somewhere else and another piece has to be found to fill the gap . |
| 24 | Like policing , it is also a matter of flair , of the ability to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 26 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 27 | So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act . |
| 28 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 29 | If we do not provide sufficient places , the necessary skill will not be in the right place at the right time . |
| 30 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |