Example sentences of "[be] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | This comparison has fazed her , as she only knows about Lee Krasner as the widow of Jackson Pollock ; so the library visit is intended to check out reproductions of Lee Krasner 's work , to see if she has to concede that her friend may be right . |
| 2 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 3 | ‘ Would I be right in saying that we have n't provided you with what you were looking for when you came here ? ’ |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Norris may well be right that Derrida deserves such attention , but he is not often likely to receive it in the conditions of actual pedagogy , or in the random public exchanges of higher cultural life , which put a premium on the simplifying and the reductive . |
| 6 | Again , Pound 's admirers will protest ; and they will be right , insofar as Yeats 's account of the Cantos is n't so definitive as Olson takes it to be . |
| 7 | In this case the cynics might be right to say that pigs will fly . |
| 8 | Can this be right ? |
| 9 | He may well be right . |
| 10 | ‘ The last time I played there , for Nantes , there was very little atmosphere , and on Wednesday the Scots fans will be right behind us . |
| 11 | Emma : You may be right . |
| 12 | A man says : ‘ Hold on , I 've just got in , be right with you … |
| 13 | They were unanimous that she would not be right for him . |
| 14 | The thought that it might be right to be a monk kept coming back . |
| 15 | Garbett said that he thought it would be right to go to London , for the sake of the Church ; that he longed for him to come to York , for the sake of himself , he wanted Ramsey as his successor . |
| 16 | For example , it can not be right that the Government should retain as offices private houses and blocks of flats while homeless families are dossed down in imperfectly converted workhouses , or forced to ‘ squat ’ in Nissen huts . |
| 17 | There is a general passivity , a loss of good conscience — ‘ they must have been doing something very wrong there ’ ; ‘ we must have been wrong ’ ; ‘ I suppose these new ideas must be right ’ ; ‘ I suppose we have got to get used to them ’ , etcetera , etcetera . |
| 18 | The BBC believe that no one does sport as well as they do — and they may be right . |
| 19 | ‘ Ca n't be right , ’ said Staff ; ‘ the Elbe is miles wide . ’ |
| 20 | So the Twelve gathered all the disciples together and said , ‘ It would not be right for us to neglect the ministry of the word of God in order to wait on tables . |
| 21 | How can that be right ? ’ |
| 22 | Wonder if this might be right moment to make arrangements for my own . |
| 23 | The legal fall-out of the £190million scandal and the criminal cases which have resulted from it mean that , on grounds of fairness alone , it would not be right to pre-judge the trials due to start next year . |
| 24 | Can that be right ? |
| 25 | ‘ It can not be right that a tenant in Middlesbrough , where housing is cheap , pays more than a tenant in Camden , where costs are very much higher , where well-paid jobs are much easier to come by , and there is such a concentration of commercial facilities . ’ |
| 26 | What was good enough to contain Al Capone , he could then assure the Prime Minister , should be right for the English yob . |
| 27 | Mr Clarke , speaking on ITN 's News At Ten last night , tried to limit the damage from the disclosure , saying : ‘ All ministers , including David Trippier , agree with me that it can not be right that National Health Service pay can be determined by industrial action of this kind taken by militant trade unions . |
| 28 | ‘ The Government does not believe that it would be right for this case to be treated as a precedent . ’ |
| 29 | He may well be right that what he calls ‘ the Holbornisation ’ of the area will suck the life out of Spitalfields after all . |
| 30 | Margaret Thatcher might possibly be right . |