Example sentences of "[is] [adv] right [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable .
2 While Porter is obviously right to argue that there is no economic reason for completely separable SBUs to be combined , it does not follow that they would function any better by becoming completely independent .
3 Although Nelson is probably right to say that the DUP had lost its role ‘ as the articulator of poor Protestants ’ social grievances ' by the end of the 1970s , this would not cost it votes until there was an alternative .
4 But the Murray committee is probably right to say that a minimum five-year experiment with a four-day game programme is now due .
5 This appears to be an interpolation , and Krueger is probably right to suggest that the original had per damnationem legati .
6 Extrapolating from this , it is probably right to assume that these functions also
7 While Fisher is right to argue that some important principles can , nevertheless , be applied , he is also right to say that the consumerist philosophy and concepts of compulsory care which involve acting in the individual 's interests are basically incompatible .
8 He is also right to say that regulations improve the quality of service .
9 We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals .
10 Coun Alan Robinson properly questions the figures and is equally right to stress that he means no reflection on the present , splendid incumbent or any of those before her .
11 And this self , in the introductory chapter , is surely right to suggest that moral sense and a sense of the numinous do not come naturally — as some anthropological dismissals of religion might suggest — from some crude pre-scientific attempt to explain the universe .
12 Professor Peter Green is surely right to suggest that the cult of Pericles , and the idea of a decline following his death in 429 BC , reflect the persistence of a mistrust of democracy among many modern commentators on ancient Greece .
13 Editor , — David Griffith is quite right to emphasise that the new Community Care Act potentially will have negative as well as positive effects on the development of support for carers .
14 Well the honourable gentleman for Great Brimsea is quite right to say that these matters er had some consideration given to them during the passage of the the legislation er but it is also true to say that er er th in the Bingham report there was a broad acceptance that the present s system of supervision of banks should continue .
15 The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the schemes have been highly successful , but I take issue with him on his assertion that the matter should be taken out of the hands of the district council and placed in the hands of the Scottish Office .
16 The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right to say that the right to life and to not being molested or attacked is fundamental .
17 I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight .
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