Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] right [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the swank had been right in that one respect when he jeered at Biff 's diligent efforts in the Scriptory … |
| 2 | ( The court also looked at the methodology and decided that the expert had been right about it anyway . ) |
| 3 | The campaign aimed at the general population had been right at a time when there was ignorance about AIDS , she said . |
| 4 | About twice a day , she 'd ask herself whether this move had been right for him . |
| 5 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that there was nothing in the policy of the Insolvency Act 1986 that indicated that Parliament intended to give the words ‘ carried on business ’ in section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) of that Act a meaning different from that which they had been held to bear in section 4(1) ( d ) of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 ; that a debtor did not cease to carry on business for the purposes of section 265(1) ( c ) ( ii ) until all the trading debts of the business had been paid ; and that , accordingly , the registrar had been right in holding that since the tax liability had not been discharged the debtor was still carrying on business and that he had jurisdiction to make the bankruptcy order ( post , pp. 122B–E , H — 123A ) . |
| 6 | His father had been right for once : she would make him the perfect match . |
| 7 | Gradually Louisa began to wonder whether her father had been right after all , whether she had been as unwise as he claimed to shut herself away in this sequestered place . |
| 8 | The Captain had been right about their having lost a guard as well as a feeder . |
| 9 | The other two grown-ups would see that Maman had been right in her judgement . |
| 10 | His hunch had been right after all . |
| 11 | It seemed that her brother had been right after all when he warned her that the Decoy Lodge was haunted . |