Example sentences of "be [verb] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well be proven right . |
| 2 | Now it 's perfectly now the cost er the benefits from sort of marketing right to buy is really very , very dubious erm the government has shown time and again that what it takes then gives with one hand , it takes away with another and the costs are obvious , we are fragmenting our housing stock , we are putting it , we are likely to end up with more and more with a higher proportion of poor properties and erm there 's also the risk that if we do really have to be promoting right to buy we 're going to have people who are probably not sure whether they can afford to buy their house or are n't sure whether they even want to buy their house . |
| 3 | The impact of this resolutely conservative and often authoritarian political ideology can be felt right across the field of social and economic policy where an idealized and homogenized vision of ‘ The Black Community ’ is the object of a discourse that urges it to take care of its own problems and assume the major burden of managing its own public affairs . |
| 4 | So just with that trick there are a lot of words now that you 'll be getting right yeah . |
| 5 | Glasser 's prose is sometimes declamatory and sententious in an old-fashioned sort of way , and sometimes awkward ( ‘ Hidden in the near future , he was to be proved right ’ ) . |
| 6 | Widnes ............ 30 Canberra Raiders .. 18 FOR 20 minutes at Old Trafford last night , it looked as if Graham Lowe might be proved right . |
| 7 | One day , if only by the laws of probability , the rumours will be proved right . |
| 8 | In truth , the full non-payment picture will not emerge for several months yet — but those who argue that Scotland is now experiencing the calm before the political storm could well be proved right . |
| 9 | She was to be proved right , as we had been taught a Spartan routine for our babies at ‘ Alderbourne Arches ’ the pre-natal training unit . |
| 10 | They want to be proved right . |
| 11 | He told one correspondent that Eliot owed his best poetry to Pound — he was convinced that there would eventually be a vogue in favour of Pound which would take the form of a reaction against Eliot ( in that he was to be proved right ) . |
| 12 | I sat back expecting to be proved right and watched as people joined in the discussion and debate . |
| 13 | The history of previous attempts to reduce the prison population by introducing alternative punishments suggest that NAPO is likely to be proved right . |
| 14 | Sometimes I think he wants me to have an affair just so he can be proved right . ’ |
| 15 | And my , how wonderful it was to be proved right once again ! ’ |
| 16 | I know that we will be proved right and that trust status will be good for my constituents and for those of my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon . |
| 17 | Bobby Simpson 's judgement was to be proved right … |
| 18 | This , however , could soon be put right as investors begin to focus on changes which have taken place in the past few years . |
| 19 | The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right . |
| 21 | ‘ Bear in mind there are people who suffer lifelong injury which can never be put right . |
| 22 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 23 | If occasionally something is not quite right in your hotel , ask at the hotel reception , politely and firmly , for it to be put right . |
| 24 | Friendly , helpful service will be with you within 24 hours — and things will be put right a quickly and efficiently as possible . |
| 25 | But that could be put right , now , with the traditional builders sand . |
| 26 | I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right . |
| 27 | Any breach of these undertakings that can not be put right will lead to a deferred inheritance tax charge based on the current market value of the item concerned . |
| 28 | The past with all its mistakes , tragedies and consequences , can not be wiped out , nor can it be put right . |
| 29 | Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’ |
| 30 | It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case . |