Example sentences of "right when [pron] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the programmers and the educational technologists are undoubtedly right when they insist that current trends and changes in education require more systematic thinking , whether or not we always adopt on every occasion their particular model for it . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend the Member for Newcastle upon Tyne , North ( Mr. Henderson ) and the hon. Member for Southwark and Bermondsey ( Mr. Hughes ) were dead right when they said that the Bill is a lost opportunity . |
| 3 | I would hate to find myself part of any anti-Diana conspiracy , but it did cross my mind that some of her critics were right when they claimed that she deliberately sought to dominate family photographs . |
| 4 | ‘ But you were right when you insisted that I must give myself the opportunity to learn my true feelings , although … ’ |
| 5 | Having said this , I consider that the Commission is right when it argues that to require all owners and operators of British fishing vessels to have their residence in the United Kingdom goes beyond what is permitted under article 52 of the E.E.C . |
| 6 | John Dower , the father of the National Parks , got it right when he said that we look to the farming communities for the continuance not only of the landscape but of the drama itself , rural life and work . |
| 7 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 8 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |
| 9 | I begin to think , though , that Robert Sheldrake was right when he said that the farm work — and in their case they 'll probably get plenty — would be their bread and butter , and the small animals their jam . |
| 10 | Nature may be beautiful but there is little doubt that Darwin was right when he observed that only the fittest survive . |
| 11 | He is probably also right when he says that he is only seen as a Spanish artist because his interest lies in Spanish art , instead of in French art ‘ like everyone else' : in other words , within the accepted categories there is no room for a Mexican who is interested in Spanish art . ' |
| 12 | He is right when he says that that should be stopped . |
| 13 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 14 | If Darwin was right when he argued that there is no fundamental discontinuity between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties , and we accept , as surely we must , the general validity of the Darwinian theory of evolution and the connectedness of species , then where does morality come in ? |
| 15 | If the president of one of our major trades unions is right when he asserts that no company now pays mainstream corporation tax ( that it only pays tax on the dividends paid to its shareholders ) , it would cost the nation nothing to do away with mainstream corporation tax , but think what a boon that could be . |
| 16 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 17 | Is it that Einstein was right when he suggested that quantum mechanics was simply a mathematically-convenient calculational device , which masks a deeper theory based on locality in space time ? |
| 18 | So perhaps Hahnemann was quite right when he suggested that inherited factors from past infections or infections suffered by ancestors caused imbalances which lay at the heart of the chronic diseases . |
| 19 | Mandelson is probably right when he argues that the sudden salience of electoral reform hurt . |
| 20 | He was full of inconsequential but amusing chatter and Louise had been right when she said that he knew everybody . |
| 21 | Bertha is quite right when she says that somebody must minister to the rich . ’ |
| 22 | She points out that we know little of the differential impact of changing material circumstances on different kinds of tending , and is surely right when she argues that it would be ‘ useful and interesting to discover how long term unemployment alters conjugal roles as far as caring is concerned ’ . |
| 23 | Jocelyn Harris is almost certainly right when she suggests that Leapor is , in fact , responding to John Locke who writes ‘ Of Adam 's Title to Sovereignty by the Subjection of Eve ’ : |