Example sentences of "was right when he [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | 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 ? |