Example sentences of "at the wrong " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is quite possible , he wrote , that it will lead nowhere , even when one has begun at the right time in the right spirit , or at least not at the wrong time , in the wrong spirit , with the wrong plans and having made the wrong preparations , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception . |
| 2 | If such a risk is accepted , sooner or later the cable will break at the wrong moment and an accident will occur . |
| 3 | Although broadcasters may feel that RDS is user-friendly the consumer-industry is only gradually responding to the growing dislike of over-complex and often confusing controls ; c.f. video recorders easily set to record the wrong programme on the wrong channel at the wrong time , and teletext units that remain under-used . |
| 4 | Sir : Am I alone in seeing the debate focused at the wrong end of the argument ? |
| 5 | In 1989 the British economy was again at the wrong end of league tables for having relatively high levels of inflation , interest rates , and a trade gap . |
| 6 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 7 | Lloyd 's needs to get a grip on more ‘ safe ’ business to offset its increasing tendency to be at the wrong end of big disasters such as Piper Alpha . |
| 8 | There is general dissatisfaction with direct debits being charged at the wrong time or from the wrong account and so-called ‘ phantom withdrawals ’ from ATMs . |
| 9 | Or , at least , they are misleading , directing attention at the wrong things . |
| 10 | Of course she sold her house at the wrong time . |
| 11 | Was silly old Eli sitting at the wrong gate ? |
| 12 | The week Donald White was shot , New York saw eight similar deaths : black students , good kids in the right place at the wrong moment . |
| 13 | Poor seed-beds , dry conditions and spraying at the wrong time or the wrong rate could all explain the appearance of the yield-sapping weed . |
| 14 | Those include poor seed-beds and treatments incorrectly applied , either at the wrong rate or timing , or under too dry conditions . |
| 15 | Fat Marlene with the wobbling chin , laughing Clyde who could smack you across the mouth without once losing his smile , and slow , amiable Harry who always asked the wrong questions at the wrong time and had by far the biggest prick of the many hundreds or thousands she had sucked and handled . |
| 16 | He gives a passable imitation of a man at the wrong end of a coconut shy . |
| 17 | If you do , the participants will play truant anyway — probably at the wrong times ! |
| 18 | But Brewer has an uncanny knack of getting injured at the wrong time and so hooker Sean Fitzpatrick will be in charge for the first time . |
| 19 | Soon all those who dare to smile or weep at the wrong moment will be sent to the poles … a cruel ruler will seize power , everyone who does not learn to keep silent will be put in prison and the extermination of mankind will begin . ’ |
| 20 | After the Palestinian militancy of Lebanon , it was like staring at the wrong side of a mirror : Palestine through the looking glass . |
| 21 | Not a few men lost teeth because they had met the big man at the wrong moment . |
| 22 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 23 | Gedge joked to music writers that he had accidentally played the original Orange Juice song at the wrong speed and thought it sounded great . |
| 24 | However diligently the football authorities in Scotland have tried to manage the psychologies and sensibilities of the national team , they have inevitably put the wrong people , in the wrong room at the wrong time . |
| 25 | The trials of the Birmingham Six and the Guildford Four , provide damning evidence of the state 's corrupt disregard for the rights of innocent people unfortunate to be caught in the wrong place at the wrong time with the wrong kind of Irish accent . |
| 26 | B. T. Some of the inspectors always appeared at the wrong time . |
| 27 | Being the wrong class , in the wrong place , at the wrong time — in a foreshadowing of later night-beat practices — meant trouble : ‘ not any suspectid personne nor persons after nyne of the clocke shall not walke , but rest an kepe they theyr hoostes houssies , uppon payne of imprisonment ’ . |
| 28 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 29 | ‘ I get stationery at the wrong time ’ |
| 30 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |