Example sentences of "of [noun] [be] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the students of Lincoln were right in thinking that he was not a good administrator , this church had less administration than any church in the land . |
| 2 | They 've won every game since losing at Swindon , who of course are right behind them in the table . |
| 3 | Jack The Lad , of course was right in the shit for smoking on school premises . |
| 4 | Who is to say what manner of intimacy is right and what is wrong ? |
| 5 | Precisely either Professor and his party believe in the that certain courses of action are right , that they espouse certain policies or they become hopeless opportunists . |
| 6 | In any event both sets of protagonists were right . |
| 7 | The offensive and defensive aims of the war were skilfully linked in the argument deployed in 1352 that the security of England was threatened by the French king 's denial of Edward 's right . |
| 8 | Everything the Labour party said about the unfairness of rates was right and everything that the Conservative party said about the unfairness of rates is right . |
| 9 | Everything the Labour party said about the unfairness of rates was right and everything that the Conservative party said about the unfairness of rates is right . |
| 10 | The feet of Stewpid are right behind me now , pounding louder than my heart beats . |
| 11 | It was a firm belief of the poet that his way of life was right for him , and that his poems should arise naturally from it ; as he himself said : ‘ I speak of what I know . ’ |
| 12 | The Secretary of State is right . |
| 13 | The Secretary of State was right . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State was right about the public relations campaigns being run by the counties and districts . |
| 15 | Instead of the question , ‘ Which form of explanation is right ? ’ , concessive holists ask when holist and individualist explanations are appropriate . |
| 16 | Recovering from the energy expended , Stephane appreciated my translated comparison with the guidebook description of Curbar 's Right Eliminate . |
| 17 | In Shenley , Hertfordshire , and Epsom , Surrey , plans are afoot to build residential houses , even though the plots of land are right smack inside the greenbelt . |
| 18 | Moreover , there are other qualifications of A 's right to retake goods . |
| 19 | " Possibly — though if the medical evidence about the time of death is right it 's hard to see how he could have got to where he was in the time . |
| 20 | Both points of view are right if they are right for the person concerned . |
| 21 | Since there is no doubt that an appeal is now properly before the Board it was suggested that the question whether the Court of Appeal was right to decline jurisdiction has become academic , and subject to one qualification their Lordships agree . |
| 22 | In these circumstances their Lordships consider that the Court of Appeal was right to decline jurisdiction . |
| 23 | The four elements of the offence of theft as defined in the Theft Act were thus clearly established and , in my view , the Court of Appeal was right to dismiss the appeal . |