Example sentences of "[modal v] be right " in BNC.
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| 1 | What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob . |
| 2 | Whatever you do should be right for you and for memories of your pet . |
| 3 | And it did n't seem fair to us that might should be right . ’ |
| 4 | By whatever means possible , will the right hon. Gentleman get in touch with Ministers to ensure that , if it is right for the Government to gain publicity over Christmas for looking after a few hundred homeless , it should be right to do something about them now so that they are not turned out on the streets ? |
| 5 | Dawn 's wedding should be right . |
| 6 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 7 | The atmosphere must be right in the arena and the whole event must be properly produced and co-ordinated . |
| 8 | I bet you thought she was beautiful , ’ He was now giving his whole attention to Charles , who said , ‘ If you say so , Henry , then it must be right . |
| 9 | As long as no individual is forced to work and no shop is forced to open , it must be right to change the law so people can do their shopping when they wish . |
| 10 | The motivation must be right if we are to be effective in the Lord 's service . |
| 11 | The legendary Enzo Ferrari rates him the best driver ever , and coming from the man with Ferrari 's wealth of experience and knowledge , he must be right . |
| 12 | In my judgment , therefore , where the law is uncertain , it must be right for the court to approach the issue before it with a predilection to ensure that our law should not involve a breach of article 10 . |
| 13 | ‘ I guess that must be right . |
| 14 | There must be enough of the right food , the temperature and habitat must be right , there must not be too many other animals that would parasitize it , or kill it for food . |
| 15 | Thérèse tried to remember that the priest represented Christ and must be right . |
| 16 | But I think you must be right , Edgar . |
| 17 | Master Buckingham must be right . |
| 18 | ‘ You do that , you pay a bill and you get a piece of paper in a language you do n't understand but it must be right because the lawyers have produced it and you have signed it . ’ |
| 19 | Legislation that will take further the right of the public to know just how their council matches up with others must be right . |
| 20 | He must be right . |
| 21 | If the Labour party , the churches , the Hampstead white wine whingers and the bleeding hearts all oppose the Bill , it must be right . |
| 22 | It is easy to debate in this House and reveal inherent contradictions between one side and the other and to make simplistic points about how one side must be right and the other wrong . |
| 23 | How different that is from the Labour party 's position — it wants to lead according to the principle which states that where others go must be right . |
| 24 | The Building Employers Confederation wanted no exemptions , because it must be right that every employer should contribute investment to his employees . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) must be right to say that pay should increasingly be linked to performance . |
| 26 | In supporting the Bill at its Second Reading in the House of Commons , the Minister of State at the Home Office , Mr Alexander Lyon , explained the Bill 's overall purpose thus : ‘ If a man has committed an indiscretion that brings him before the courts and results in his being convicted and penalised , it must be right that after he has served the penalty and lived it down by a substantial period of good conduct thereafter , it should be without meaning for most people of good will . ’ |
| 27 | So Terence must be right ! |
| 28 | Many people suffer from the same disease of thinking they must be right all the time , and they must push their rightness onto other people . |
| 29 | I therefore worked on the premise that if , if a fifth of our work comes from then it must be right to have approximately a fifth of our staff based in |
| 30 | Now would you , I think it must be right that you were at the at five fifteen in the morning conducted by Sergeant . |