Example sentences of "right but " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its heart is in the right place , the detail is right but the texture is wrong . |
| 2 | ‘ I was stopped all right but it was n't as simple as poor McQuaid made out . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd do that all right but look at what he 's getting mixed up ‘ It may be just talk , ’ she ventured edgily . |
| 4 | It was decisive and at times attracted public support because she seemed to be taking action which the public overwhelmingly thought was right but never thought any government would have the nerve to carry out . |
| 5 | He made trouble all right but not like that . |
| 6 | Conservation was all right but when did it lapse into deterioration ? |
| 7 | They say using old material is all right but it must not burn . |
| 8 | Despite the apparent decisiveness of Adenauer 's foreign policy , therefore , some have argued that there lay a fundamental ambivalence at the bottom of it , symbolised by the choice of his home town , Bonn , as the new capital : it represented Western orientation all right but , at the same time , it was very obviously only a provisional arrangement . |
| 9 | It 's all right but he prefers Cabanaconda . |
| 10 | Your first prescription was right but a new remedy is now needed . |
| 11 | More specifically , Cornall noted ; ‘ cross-curricular themes may be all right but they can not adequately be taught through foundation subjects . |
| 12 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 13 | Sculptures and dolls and statues and bells and odd buildings , and sometimes Hosanna 's there and it 's nearly all right but these things are laughing at me , never with me . |
| 14 | I think he could cope all right but at the back of his mind will always be the fact that possibly he let the party down . |
| 15 | They look all right but taste bland and the filling turns to runny brown jam once warmed up . |
| 16 | ‘ She seems all right but we will have to wait because it has been very traumatic . ’ |
| 17 | Like first aid , it can not guarantee that you are going to be all right but it can certainly help you improve your chances . |
| 18 | ‘ You have disturbed a burial site all right but what is important is that you do n't disturb it further , ’ he advised . |
| 19 | Matthew , the eldest , is quite a bright chap and Emma , the next one age-wise , is all right but learning the recorder . |
| 20 | No , not all right but better , made sense of . |
| 21 | The words were all right but the lack of emphasis made Peter suspicious . |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps you 're right but there are not many who would shift the blame on to a brother 's shoulders . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , I used to tread the boards , I am an actor all right but there are n't many roles for a man who sustained an injury that left one leg shorter than the other . |
| 24 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 25 | The crab mousse was all right but heavier than the dish calls for . |
| 26 | ‘ Beast all right but stupid , not wicked . |
| 27 | At this stage , perhaps because she is unfamiliar with how the words look , she has substituted for the correct letters something which sounds all right but is inaccurate . |
| 28 | All the other equations are all right but will not necessarily provide the simplest starting point for solving a given problem . |
| 29 | The young ones were all right but the older ones were horrible . |
| 30 | ‘ Sometimes you think you 've done all right but often you say they do n't hold water or they wo n't stand up . |