Example sentences of "not be [adv] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | As usual , conventional wisdom may not be wholly right . |
| 2 | There was at one stage prospecting starting in a locality about ten miles distant from the main area and there was , I think ( my figures may not be exactly right but they 're near enough right ) 276 landowners in the locality and 274 of them signed a petition to the prospecting companies to stay off their land . |
| 3 | ‘ Why should it not be all right ? |
| 4 | It can not be all right . |
| 5 | ‘ Entropy demands that everything will not be all right , but sometimes we can rage against the dying of the light . ’ |
| 6 | Yet it would not be quite right to call Under Briggflatts ‘ controversial ’ , for that deadened word implies a self-serving wish to shock which is far from Davie 's considered anger . |
| 7 | People will tell you how something may not be quite right . |
| 8 | But that may not be quite right . |
| 9 | But we know it can not be quite right because it does n't incorporate the uncertainty principle of quantum mechanics . |
| 10 | I am very concerned about the implications of this judgement if the effect is to sanction death by starvation which can not be morally right . ’ |