Example sentences of "[be] put right " in BNC.

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1 This , however , could soon be put right as investors begin to focus on changes which have taken place in the past few years .
2 The publication of A Force for Change was crucial because it represented an important internal victory for the reformers , and established glasnost as the principle by which the Met was to be put right .
3 ‘ This is a technology , ’ says the UK Genetics Forum , ‘ which should be looked at from the point of view that if something goes wrong , it ca n't be put right .
4 ‘ Bear in mind there are people who suffer lifelong injury which can never be put right .
5 After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’
6 If occasionally something is not quite right in your hotel , ask at the hotel reception , politely and firmly , for it to be put right .
7 Friendly , helpful service will be with you within 24 hours — and things will be put right a quickly and efficiently as possible .
8 But that could be put right , now , with the traditional builders sand .
9 I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right .
10 Any breach of these undertakings that can not be put right will lead to a deferred inheritance tax charge based on the current market value of the item concerned .
11 The past with all its mistakes , tragedies and consequences , can not be wiped out , nor can it be put right .
12 Some cases might be summed up as ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can they be put right ? ’
13 It is thus both a ‘ What have they been doing wrong and how can it be put right ? ’ and a ‘ Which way should they go now ? ’ case .
14 No , there was nothing wrong with their uniforms that could n't be put right , as far as Vi was concerned .
15 In rewriting , the spellings can be put right , and the finished piece of work is more likely to be accurate .
16 " I see that you have n't been properly introduced , " he said , " and that must be put right at once .
17 In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " .
18 Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it .
19 The last point could be put right , wasting more space , by adding a potential link field to every record .
20 I will give them again and , if I am wrong , I shall have to be put right next week .
21 Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ?
22 That is the first area that must be put right .
23 However , if the breach concerned some trifling defect , perhaps a mere technicality , which could be put right very quickly and easily , the term would be classed as a warranty .
24 the sense of order ; 2. the phenomenon of play ; 3. the experience of hope ; 4. the concept of damnation — a sense of cosmic injustice to be put right ; 5. the fact of humour .
25 If there is a defect in the title , it is as well that it be dealt with and agreed from early on in the transaction , and if the defect can not be put right , it may be necessary to make arrangements for a defective title indemnity policy .
26 I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right .
27 To the chair reasons for my concern here and reason for my asking her whether she will now agree to a full investigation of this service at to be conducted by councillors and for the council to be satisfied that the service can be put right .
28 I 'm hoping that this might lead to an improvement but I still please ask you all to keep me in touch with where things are going wrong so that they can be put right .
29 If he thought he could do that he needed to be put right .
30 Simply people who believe that a wrong was committed , which should be put right .
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