Example sentences of "right [prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ignored pressure from the Central Authority to await common agreement on a matter they were surely right in considering as one best left to the judgement of each area according to local conditions . |
| 2 | The first question which has been considered on this appeal is whether the justices were right in thinking that they had power in an appropriate case to order that there should be no contact between the mother and child under section 34(2) of the Act of 1989 . |
| 3 | Well , Val I think you are quite right in thinking that you are not alone in feeling let down after purchasing the ‘ wrong ’ computer for your needs and I do agree that you were given poor advice by the store you purchased from . |
| 4 | ‘ And am I right in thinking that you want to import into the United States of America a person or persons who might be interdicted by the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service ? ’ |
| 5 | PP : Am I right in thinking that you recognise Exhibit A ? |
| 6 | Mr Blunt , am I right in thinking that you deal with Philippine affairs for the International Monetary Fund ? |
| 7 | Am I right in thinking that you would n't want to go on with these incursions ? |
| 8 | Would I be right in thinking that there really are people with ‘ green fingers ’ and should we be doing more to encourage our younger generation to take an active interest in the garden ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm glad you realise that the root of the problem lies with your husband not with you , and I 'm sure you 're right in thinking that he might need outside help . |
| 11 | Whether or not he was right in thinking that he had allowed his music to be led by and all but overwhelmed by Auden 's words Paul Bunyan marked the end of his close collaboration with Auden . |
| 12 | You are not quite right in assuming that you , the Koi-keeper should quarantine newly purchased fish . |
| 13 | Am I right in assuming that you have no use for it ? |
| 14 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 15 | The Open Spaces Soc-iety is overwhelmingly right in stressing that it is n't just feudal landlords who are the threat . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , Mills and Boon are perfectly right in declaring that there is no explicit formula for their texts , for there is no need for one . |
| 17 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 18 | The smallness of the demonstration , compared with the Dungannon march , showed the modest scale of the organisers , influence , although McCann is probably right in saying that they made a mistake in starting it in hostile territory . |
| 19 | At one time , I think I 'm right in saying that they had two hundred people . |
| 20 | I think I 'm right in saying that she drew a very short straw and is the first reading in the Lords of the bill to privatise the railways . |
| 21 | Aunt Sarah was right in saying that it would take five days to reach Liverpool , since the barge could go no faster than the horse which pulled it . |
| 22 | However , where , as in the present case , there is an injunction in force , it seems to me that Mr. Langley and Mr. Philipson are right in saying that it is open to the court to consider the issue of validity , since , if the notice were indeed invalid , it could not override the injunction or give grounds for a variation . |
| 23 | So what , what , what could it am I right in saying that it 's related to the , the work that you 're doing is related to the particular circumstances the particular problems that people living in flats have had ? |
| 24 | And since nineteen eighty two , am I right in saying that you 've worked at the law centre in ? |
| 25 | Am I right in saying that you see erm the problems of areas such as this as being extremely urgent something done now ? |
| 26 | Am I right in saying that you 've also been very you 've also changed with the times as well , and adjusted |
| 27 | And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ? |
| 28 | Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects . |
| 29 | You were right in saying that there was very bad press given to hormone replacement therapy in in the early days when they used very high doses of of er un er , of normal oestrogens and this caused an increase in the amount of end of uterus , uterine cancer and this I think has generally er mo mo mo ruined the course for for the older doctors because they still think that it 's associated with an increase in cancer and they have n't got up to date to realise that the more modern preparations are not causing this and that 's where I think th the problems li lie . |
| 30 | You 're you 're actually saying what would would I be right in saying that there would n't er they 'd have to without you if you were ill . |