Example sentences of "it be right that " in BNC.

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31 I think it is right that everyone should be given the freedom to choose whether or not they want to work in a smoking or non-smoking office and separate areas created to cater for both factions .
32 It is right that they should be given a place of honour in the history of ancient art .
33 It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years .
34 Press hostility to this idea was scarcely free of self-interest , but there were bigger issues at stake and it is right that they prevailed .
35 Because of this she never had any time for her own parents : my mother could n't think it was right that they 'd parted with two of their children . ’
36 In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God .
37 Coleridge rationalized the departure in his poem ‘ Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement ’ , asking whether it was right that he should live in beauty and solitude while his ‘ unnumber 'd brethren toil 'd and bled ’ in the greater world .
38 I told Kidsons that I did n't think it was right that I should seek re-election , which was coming up on 30 April , and left it at that . ’
39 If he needed to be questioned again it was right that it should be at home and with his parents present .
40 I thought that it was right that I should talk to you , try and build a better picture of Michael . ’
41 It was right that she should make it suffer for what it had done .
42 So you won , Ragu , and in retrospect I think it was right that you did .
43 However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years .
44 It was right that the poor Jewish scholar should marry the daughter of the richest local merchant , because it was unthinkable that a community which respected learning should reward its luminaries with nothing more tangible than praise .
45 But Mr Michael Fallon , the Conservative candidate , said it was right that a quarter of the receipts should go on housing while threequarters went towards repayment of debt .
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