Example sentences of "[adv] correct [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your conduct has confirmed that I was utterly correct to abbreviate your filthy title to NewSS — as you represent , by your conduct , the new form of fascism . |
| 2 | It is in virtue of such rules that we can make sense of the idea that we are objectively correct to call the new sensation a pain . |
| 3 | Accordingly in my judgment it is not correct to describe the document as a will at that stage nor can it be said in my judgment that by his signature Mr. Winterbone intended to give effect to the document as any kind of effective document . |
| 4 | So — strictly speaking — it is not correct to say that it ‘ happened ’ in the seventeenth century and to leave it at that . |
| 5 | It is not correct to say that the Government Select Committee on Health has recommended a continuation of the current system of voluntary agreements on tobacco advertising as opposed to an EC ban . |
| 6 | In the first place , it was not correct to regard the quota system as secondary legislation , which , as such , could not derogate from the E.E.C . |
| 7 | ‘ It is no longer correct to say ‘ the height of fashion ’ ’ … rather ‘ she was dressed in the full breadth of fashion ’ ’ . ' |
| 8 | The 1,400 delegates approved a resolution on Dec. 11 , declaring that it was no longer correct to blame the global hunger problem on a chronic shortage of food . |
| 9 | For example , some sociologists have argued that it is no longer correct to regard Western industrial society , particularly the USA , as being stratified in terms of a class system . |
| 10 | It would be more correct to say that something which was used as the target has changed , for the " target " is a subjective designation and does not change until management decides to change it . |
| 11 | But it , was , it 's more correct to say carried on , but that 's another meaning okay ? |
| 12 | I , I think to be er , I think it is more correct to say that there was an outline planning application for an additional dwelling on that site , er in addition to the bungalow that is there , and I I think that is the situation , and all subsequent planning applications have been refused . |
| 13 | It is more correct to refer to this as a cistern , since a ‘ tank ’ is , strictly , closed on all sides and under pressure whilst a cistern is open at the top . |
| 14 | It would be more correct to raise the matter in debate . |
| 15 | But , unless some of the coins had mortar still adhering to them , it would be more correct to assume that they were lost either during the demolition or in the occupation which followed . |
| 16 | Thus , many manic-depressives , even in their ‘ up ’ phases , describe feelings of depression and it is probably more correct to think of their psychotic state as a whole as a rather peculiar co-existence of irritable moods . |
| 17 | ‘ In so far as the patient was being phased off this treatment , ’ he had begun , pointing with the back of his pen to certain entries on Commander Barnwell 's chart , ‘ it would be technically correct to say that there has been a minor error . ’ |
| 18 | The mind prefers the security of absolutes : " It is always correct to do this " ; " This should never be done . " |
| 19 | Certainly it is not always correct to assume that older people are ‘ safe ’ in the hands of medical professionals . |
| 20 | It is perhaps not strictly correct to call it an ‘ old ’ contradiction for , in the pre-NHS days when solo practice was the norm and many GPs also did hospital work , the tension between medical care as technical work and as supportive counselling was relatively unimportant . |
| 21 | If the answer to the question is not known , it is both scientifically worthwhile and ethically correct to investigate the issue , provided that the question is not a trivial one . |
| 22 | For the reasons I have given , I am of the opinion that he was also correct to hold that it was a matter within his discretion to decide whether or not to require the local authority to give an undertaking in damages . |
| 23 | Wright is also correct to distinguish between a general interpretation of ‘ salvation by grace ’ — the teaching of the reformers — and its fundamentalist variant , which he terms ‘ salvation by grace through faith ’ . |
| 24 | In terms of that aspect of the Fleet Street Casuals case which relates sufficient interest to the facts and merits of the applicant 's case , it is probably correct to say that ratepayers challenging decisions of local authorities , competitors challenging decisions affecting their business activities , and neighbours challenging planning decisions would be held to have a sufficient interest unless other facts of the case provided very strong grounds for denying the existence of such an interest . |
| 25 | We think it is roughly correct to say that the orthodox account sees the different factors interacting as in Figure 1.1 . |
| 26 | So er , in so far as human nature can be equated with the id , it seems to me , perfectly correct to say that Frob erm , Frob I was going to say , Freud , Freud was a Hobbesian thinker . |
| 27 | And in this respect , it is partially correct to think of language as rooted in particular social forms and reflecting the social conditions of various different occupations . |
| 28 | In truth , it is not quite correct to refer to talk of the Institute 's ‘ deafening silence ’ on this matter , as , in its evidence to the Cadbury Committee , the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group was actually supportive of the Caparo position ! |
| 29 | The difference between the male and the female experience of lab work is partly a difference between male and female upbringing ; writers like Kelly ( 1981a ) have been quite correct to point out that women are disadvantaged in science because of their lack of experience with scientific toys , machines and so on in childhood . |
| 30 | Er so do n't , do n't do , quite correct to say beware of putting too much er of your money in one area , and er even with building societies it 's risky . |