Example sentences of "it is right for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Bentham is represented as having held a significantly different view from that just described , according to which an action which it is right for me to do at any moment is either one which produces a greater surplus of pleasure over pain than any alternative action then open to me ( in which case it is the one right action ) or produces as great a surplus as any alternative ( in which case it is a right action ) , while all actions not thus right are wrong . |
| 2 | But Yanek said , " I have thought about it , Grandfather , and I think it is right for me to go . " |
| 3 | I think it is right for me to receive the report and then to examine it . |
| 4 | What can be said for them is that if the High Priest is acting in the fullest awareness at present attainable by his people , it is right for him to perform the sacrifice , just as it would be right for a Western onlooker to try to dissuade him ; he is not like a Nazi who has voluntarily shut himself off from the knowledge of biology and history and the personal sensitivity attained by the culture of the Weimar Republic . |
| 5 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 6 | Although I accept that it is right for us to do that , a counterbalance should be a more effective way of scrutinising affirmative and negative orders . |
| 7 | It is because of those reforms that it is right for us to be sceptical about some of the claims that the right hon. Gentleman has made today . |