Example sentences of "[not/n't] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | A record balance of payments deficit is not the right background for enforced increases in industrial costs . |
| 2 | The worst of being in a job which the world regarded as not the right place for him was that the world would not leave him alone . |
| 3 | I could look at all these things and say that 's just not the right way to do it . |
| 4 | When the day is fine the roof does n't need mending ; when it 's raining it 's not the right weather do to it ! ’ |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher argues that sanctions are not the right course and only consensus will work . |
| 6 | Now I think it was not the right way . ’ |
| 7 | He was longing to ask Emily more about Vic , but having put her on the spot , he felt that this was not the right moment . |
| 8 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 9 | Symphony because I felt it was not the right tempo . |
| 10 | Election Comment : Not the right man for the job |
| 11 | In any case would not the right course require me to give his advice prima facie rather than pre-emptive force ? |
| 12 | ‘ No , it 's what you think , you must think , now in this moment — of magic — that 's not the right word — of spiritual power — it 's like a lightning flash — we will be all right , we two , for ever — is n't it ? |
| 13 | Stirling appears to have told someone in R.A.F. Ops. about it , but of course not the right man . |
| 14 | All this will build up muscle , but not the right muscle for the work he is going to be asked to do . |
| 15 | Some of the lucky ones took to their parachutes and spent the rest of the war in Germany — perhaps ‘ lucky ’ is not the right word , but at least they were alive . |
| 16 | But above all , engineers are only slowly acknowledging that many Western solutions , principally water-borne sewerage systems , are not the right answer for many parts of the Third World . |
| 17 | George had pointed someone out to me in the dayniter , but he was not the right person : grey haired , but too ill-looking , too old . |
| 18 | What is definitely not the right way to build up a stock of components is to buy sets of components for projects , and to never quite get around to building them . |
| 19 | This need not mean that he is no good at his job — simply that he is not the right person to help you . |
| 20 | It 's not the right song for the show , but we had so little time and a decision had to be made . |
| 21 | Bishop George West thought that we should stay , but Pop knew that he , at least , must return , and finally he and I decided that we should all return , mainly because a separation when you three were still so young — and needing parents and not grandparents to care for you — seemed not the right course . |
| 22 | It 's almost a confession — though that is perhaps not the right word — of the depth of feeling . |
| 23 | This is hardly the best of reasons for planting , and not the right attitude . |
| 24 | I learned everything from this first spectacle : I saw how the white ( French ) , superior , plutocratic , civilized world founded its power on the repression of populations who had suddenly become ‘ invisible ’ , like proletarians , immigrant workers , minorities who are not the right ‘ colour ’ . |
| 25 | The second is that it is not the right allocation of available resources to use them for this patient . |
| 26 | ‘ Blame ’ is not the right word . |
| 27 | For example , a photocopier which would only be bought by office managers and which would need fairly detailed copy to do it justice would be a waste of money to advertise on TV because the number of office managers in your audience is so tiny , and TV is not the right place to put a lot of product detail because time is so limited . |
| 28 | It 's not the right term to use not really . |
| 29 | I have never heard anybody saying that it was er not the right thing to do . |
| 30 | Branson did not warm to Fields 's initial concept of a 100-per-cent business-class service between London and New York ; that , he felt , was ‘ not the right image from Virgin 's point of view ’ . |