Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shepherd was right . |
| 2 | ‘ The bit about the warehouse was right , ’ Plummer continued . |
| 3 | After last week 's acquittal , the head of South Yorkshire CID , Chief Superintendent Mick Burdis , said the force was right to go to court . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend the Member for Cambridgeshire , South-West was right about car security and what he said was reflected in the speech of my hon. Friend the Member for Meriden , who urged us to do more about car security . |
| 5 | Needless to say , his prediction was right , and Mrs Birkin 's garlic mussels , along with three generous portions of roast chicken and a delicious apple pie , were hungrily consumed . |
| 6 | That priest was right . |
| 7 | ‘ Perhaps the priest was right , and instinct is telling Eileen what to do . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ We would decide whether the bid was right for the club and for the player . |
| 9 | Speaking as one with experience of both Hummersknott and the sixth form , I believe the decision to reject Mr Henderson 's bid was right . |
| 10 | For the industrialists research was right down there at 50% with standards . |
| 11 | Jonadab was right : the harvest moon hung in the velvety blackness of the sky like a huge orb , casting such a radiance that the cart tracks in the road shone whitely , guiding their feet with no stumbling . |
| 12 | The rent was right , if nothing else was . |
| 13 | Ranulf was right , he thought . |
| 14 | Ranulf was right . |
| 15 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 16 | Even more crucially , if the nuclear industry was right about the lack of danger to health from its routine operations , then one piece of evidence stood out like an unexplained sore thumb . |
| 17 | So , the economic , philosophical and biological criticism of Marxism all point in the same direction : that though ‘ muddled Mr Owen ’ was , of course , wrong in supposing that sweet reasonableness and an appeal to the best in human nature would , following the organisation into general unions of workers in productive industry , enable them to take control of it ; and further , by thus reconstituting society as an industrial democracy , remove its evils and usher in an era of plenty and universal happiness , he was not wrong because a clear-sighted Mr Marx 's alternative was right . |
| 18 | Drifter flowed up the gallop in a smooth fast rhythm and Tremayne said he would have a good chance at Worcester if his blood was right . |
| 19 | Certainly he believed his action was right for the opinion polls . |
| 20 | Gurder was right . |
| 21 | Gurder was right , universal education was not a good idea . |
| 22 | As far as I am concerned , four-day cricket is worth a go , and the committee were right to endorse it as a means to aid the development of future England cricketers . |
| 23 | But because his work was right in the heart of the the battle zone there were times when he was forced to kill Serbian soldiers , to save his own life and those of his patients . |
| 24 | The coach was right , his mental attitude was right . |
| 25 | The hospitaller was right . |
| 26 | Gaitskell was convinced that this proposal was right , and gained the agreement of his cabinet colleagues and , eventually , of Citrine . |
| 27 | If Intelligence was right , that would be a fitting irony . |
| 28 | Nadine was right . |
| 29 | The coach was right , his mental attitude was right . |
| 30 | Horatia was right . |