Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adv] the right [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in the middle of this continuum , an animal with an air bladder of exactly the right size neither sinks nor rises , but floats steadily in effortless equilibrium . |
| 2 | She raised her hand as a dubious Herr Nordern forced the car into almost the right gear and drove off with a curious jerking motion , then turned and went into the Centre with a look on her face which boded ill for anyone who crossed her path that day . |
| 3 | The beautiful opening on the Moscow River is delicate , grey , understated ; the introduction to Marfa 's conjuration has a murkiness that prepares for her entry with just the right atmosphere and weight . |
| 4 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 5 | AS so often in the past , a major sporting event is set to give Northern Ireland a morale boost at just the right time . |
| 6 | It certainly seems to specialise in hitting nails on heads at just the right moment . |
| 7 | Still it 's hard to believe the young warlord wo n't rattle around in his armoury for just the right mace . |
| 8 | ‘ Now this is packed in three-kilo boxes , filled properly with ice of just the right size . |
| 9 | the sky was a beautiful blue , the sun in just the right position for the rainbows to come out of the cleft in exactly the right position photographically . |
| 10 | Every held operation using tractors or horses inevitably causes some compaction and damage to soil structure ; it should therefore be the farmer 's aim to create the desired effect with the minimum of passes at exactly the right time . |
| 11 | He had been in and out of love , but never found quite the right girl at quite the right time to make him a wife . |
| 12 | A large group in the opposite corner had erupted into laughter at just the right moment , to mask the sound of her action , however , and even those who had seen and heard were simply hiding slightly shocked and curious smiles behind polite hands and pretending to go on with their talk . |
| 13 | Like the chimpanzees , the ability of bluetits to learn the complex series of manoeuvres required to release a peanut from a special trick-feeder is no more difficult than many of the activities it learns during the course of its life , seeking out insects and seeds from the most intricate of places , getting itself and its beak into just the right position to extract the desired morsel . |
| 14 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 15 | ( It is important when dealing with caterpillars to realise that many species rely for their survival entirely on one plant growing in the right place at exactly the right time . ) |
| 16 | It also times the transfer of its eggs extremely carefully so that most of them hatch in the hosts ' nests at exactly the right time . |
| 17 | The existence of a second decaying solution , which would occur on its own only if one had an initially large disturbance of just the right configuration , is irrelevant . ) |
| 18 | The Board of Trade meeting went off very well , with both Mr Murray and Mr Bushnell answering questions with exactly the right tact and diplomacy . |
| 19 | That 's something we at Sumitomo Bank keep in mind when we deal with our customers , combining our specialized expertise in international banking with original thinking to offer service with just the right character to fit their particular needs . |
| 20 | There are good men and women , with their hearts in roughly the right place , in the shadow cabinet . |
| 21 | ‘ We are going to Liverpool at just the right time and there 's no reason for them to expect any favours from us . ’ |
| 22 | For when he seeks a particular type of person to assist him in a particular way , he can be assured that the recruitment professional will not waste his time or energy in introducing unsuitable candidates for consideration , but that he will be given details of only the right sort of person for the required position . |
| 23 | It gave us a lift at just the right time . |
| 24 | A dynamic allocation of exactly the right amount of memory for the word can not be implemented because the structure needs to be contiguous in memory for the fast saving and reading in from a file ( as discussed in section 3.3.6 ) . |
| 25 | Rather important that one you know , a street lamp out for six weeks , though I know it 's difficult getting in touch with exactly the right department and whose responsibility it is . |
| 26 | If we decide to be less cynical , we could suggest that God triggered a supernova at exactly the right time to draw the Magi towards the place where His son was being born . |
| 27 | Sandra and Fashion Editor Caroline Baker had lots of fun making sure the pictures were perfect — and that Alex and her furry friend looked at the camera at just the right moment ! |
| 28 | When the examiner picks up your script to look for question 5 , for example , he ought to be able to open the book at roughly the right place and find question 5 . |
| 29 | He is delighted to have run into form at just the right moment , leaving him in his most confident frame of mind since the days leading up to his triumphant 1990 Open at St Andrews . |
| 30 | Strachan feels Leeds are running into form at just the right time for the most daunting task of manager Howard Wilkinson 's four-year reign . |