Example sentences of "be the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the right side of the Consul-General 's brain . |
| 2 | Edward Shevardnadze , who resigned as Soviet foreign minister last December , might have been the right sort of UN leader . |
| 3 | While ‘ one more heave ’ might have been the right response to Labour 's 1987 defeat , ‘ it is a wholly inadequate response to our 1992 defeat , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I wondered if this had been the right place to come at all . |
| 5 | The band could probably have signed to IRS but Hallin does not think it would have been the right move . |
| 6 | I mean , that may have been the right impression , and I do n't want to force you to say more than you want to , or really anything , but I 'd like to know if you still want to write to me , possibly just about books , or if you wanted to — |
| 7 | With a lot of misgivings , I eventually withdrew — and within weeks , as new opportunities opened up , it was clear this had been the right decision for me . |
| 8 | What 's been missing up until now , though , has been the right producer — early REM cohort Mitch Easter 's enlisted here — the cash to afford a string section for those weeping , sweeping passages and , crucially , confidence on the part of Moose themselves . |
| 9 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 10 | When Niki said the Paris decision had been the right one , one knows two things about Niki that explain his position : first that any Ferrari driver has to speak through both sides of his mouth , and second , that even were that not so , there is nothing Niki likes as much as winding someone else up . |
| 11 | They were quietly seething , June 1988 may not have been the right time for demonstrations , but parts of the student body and some sectors of the urban population appeared to be contemplating some form of action to let the government know of their intentions . |
| 12 | And Allied Signal Corp chairman Lawrence Bossidy has initiated the UK ‘ manufacturing versus services ’ debate in the US , suggesting that for those that believe that IBM Corp should be making more , cheaper rather than shuttering factories all over the place , he might have been the right man for the job : US industry ‘ can not slash its way to prosperity , ’ he told the new Design & Manufacturing Institute of the Stevens Institute of Technology — adding that while design innovation is a US strength , ‘ we need to extend US technological excellence from the design laboratory to the manufacturing floor — American business needs to find ways to improve the speed with which we convert innovative design into high-quality , marketable product ; many of our factory floors are populated by high-school graduates or dropouts , with a few engineers serving as supervisors safely ensconced behind glass walls , ’ Bossidy said , where Japanese shop floors are staffed much more by graduate engineers who work directly with well-trained workers , to solve problems and improve manufacturing efficiency . |
| 13 | If the first of the two roads had been the right one to take , that would be an end of the matter . |
| 14 | It had been the right advice — Colonel Windsor knew it was — and Tubby had promised to take it . |
| 15 | Gorbachev had no doubt that the socialist choice in October 1917 had been the right one ; nor could Marx be blamed for subsequent developments he had obviously been unable to foresee . |
| 16 | Surely somewhere in the world there would have been the right facies preserved to provide the immediate ancestors of Peregrinella or Iguanodon ? |
| 17 | It had been a difficult decision , but she was sure it had been the right one . |
| 18 | Now that has clearly been the right choice given that I think Motif has clearly achieved the ascendant over open look . |
| 19 | Leading that charge has been the right hon. Member for Henley ( Mr. Heseltine ) — that elegant nonentity whose only claim to fame was that he helped rid the nation of the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) . |
| 20 | It had been the right thing to say . |
| 21 | My first assessment had been the right one . |
| 22 | The decision , made six months ago , to uproot herself from England and move to the Algarve might not have been easy , but it had been the right one . |
| 23 | It 's been the right weather for ducks at the Henley Royal Regatta … but despite the rain and the lack of Olympic rowers , there 's been plenty of top rowing … the regatta continues until Sunday . |
| 24 | I do n't know if that would 've been the right thing to do there . |
| 25 | In the end it must have been the right one because I was the best of all and I you know until five minutes before everything finished I just could n't make up my mind |
| 26 | There is a sort of joy in persuading the English you are the right person for them by dancing like a stoned Russian . |
| 27 | What are the right fats ? |
| 28 | Propagating streptocarpus : ensure leaf sections are the right way up |
| 29 | If you are the right weight already you could very probably still be healthier if you reduced your intake of saturated fats . |
| 30 | Woosnam 's chances look more remote , though he is undoubtedly happier now that Phil Ritson , a South African coach , spotted a technical fault in his swing and has put him back on what he feels are the right lines . |