Example sentences of "[adj] place at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Being in the right place at the right time is all important in fishing , and living on the doorstep of the river gave me the advantage . |
| 33 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | You have to be in the right place at the right time , you hear there 's a place going , then you grab it . ’ |
| 36 | In this arcade adventure the aim is to collect the correct objects and drop them in the right place at the right time . |
| 37 | His achievement was thus in a real sense an imaginative one , and so much was he the right man in the right place at the right time that his procedures and opinions were never seriously gainsaid . |
| 38 | ‘ I was just in the right place at the right time , I guess . |
| 39 | General announcements , group discussions or committees are difficult , the speechreader must look at the right place at the right time . |
| 40 | The parents had to be able to present a full defence , he said , and if the whole case had been heard in Inverness , it would have been almost impossible to fully safeguard their interests and get everybody in the right place at the right time . |
| 41 | but Mr Clinton was the right man in the right place at the right time . |
| 42 | It has been said that what made John F Kennedy great was that he was the right man in the right place at the right time . |
| 43 | It means grasping opportunities and being in the right place at the right time . |
| 44 | ‘ There are days like that and it is a matter of making sure you are in the right place at the right time . |
| 45 | ‘ There 's no pecking order , it 's who is in the right place at the right time and who is the strongest , ’ he says . |
| 46 | His first two were classic cases of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 47 | It was so very much the right place at the right time . |
| 48 | Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it . |
| 49 | For a change I was in the right place at the right time and got a job , with housing , at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC . |
| 50 | He could be in the right place at the right time when top jobs come up for grabs next summer . |
| 51 | Since fertilisation is external , with the male 's sperm being shed over the eggs as they are laid , amplexus ensures that the male is in the right place at the right time to fertilise the eggs . |
| 52 | It is sour grapes , they say , because the candidates no doubt sent in many copies of their CV without response ; fell by the wayside in competition with better candidates ; failed to convince the would-be employer that they were right for the job ; or were just plain unlucky and not in the right place at the right time . |
| 53 | Yet he proved to be the right man in the right place at the right time . |
| 54 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 55 | They included , roughly speaking , the earth 's London face being away from the sun for a time , the absence of any light source like that of the sun , in the right place at the right time , and conditions having to do with the behaviour of light . |
| 56 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 57 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 58 | Like policing , it is also a matter of flair , of the ability to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | So far I 've been very fortunate in that I 've been in the right place at the right time ; buying land and property in a subdued market then selling it on when demand is high . |