Example sentences of "be right when he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 2 | If the president of one of our major trades unions is right when he asserts that no company now pays mainstream corporation tax ( that it only pays tax on the dividends paid to its shareholders ) , it would cost the nation nothing to do away with mainstream corporation tax , but think what a boon that could be . |
| 3 | He is right when he says that that should be stopped . |
| 4 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 5 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 6 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 7 | I begin to think , though , that Robert Sheldrake was right when he said that the farm work — and in their case they 'll probably get plenty — would be their bread and butter , and the small animals their jam . |
| 8 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 9 | If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties , and we accept , as surely we must , the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species , then where does morality come in ? |
| 10 | Is it that Einstein was right when he suggested that quantum mechanics was simply a mathematically-convenient calculational device , which masks a deeper theory based on locality in space time ? |