Example sentences of "about right " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Confucius and his teaching about right relationships — parent-child , teacher-pupil , ruler-subject , man and his neighbour , I saw the presentation of the cultured Chinese ideal of learning , virtue and duty . |
| 2 | Yeah sounds about right . |
| 3 | Ten crew is about right to race the boat , though more weight in a breeze — if allowed by the rules — is an advantage |
| 4 | Instructions about Right Beleeving , a collection of sermons , was uncontroversial . |
| 5 | It does n't sound about right . |
| 6 | Thirty three and a third ohms , does that sound about right ? |
| 7 | The volume seems about right but the shape is quite wrong . |
| 8 | Er the project resources sheet erm again th th the erm it 's identify erm the quantities do seem about right . |
| 9 | On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex visuo-spatial processes . |
| 10 | On the basis of these split-brain studies , the most general statement that has been made about right hemisphere specialisation is that they are non-linguistic functions that seem to involve complex viso-spatial processes . |
| 11 | The time was about right but conditions were quite different : instead of misty rain the evening was clear , the air was balmy with that silky feel , and the waters of the harbour gleamed in the darkness . |
| 12 | Yeah ten years , about right . |
| 13 | Just so that i 'm clear on this ; we are talking about right wing fascist rag THE ‘ Daily Telegraph ’ are we ? |
| 14 | Er and that er in my view anyway demonstrated that we 'd got it about right in terms of our assessment of the effects of the Southern Bypass . |
| 15 | We think they are about right , they would provide for an appropriate level of development . |
| 16 | e.g. okay and whenever you describe this style you wan na think about right , take ugly blocks of concrete , okay ugly blocks of concrete , right , what is it and why do you think it looks like that ? |
| 17 | I mixed it up when I wrote it down If you find something in the text books looks about right and similar to that , use the text book version , I might have written it down wrong . |
| 18 | Yes I think er that that , yes that , that sounds about right from the point of view of what you 'd get back . |
| 19 | Well , with the two lines going yeah would have been about right then but see , John I do n't suppose he realised Ann was gon na fetch all the people out of here there and everywhere and start that up . |
| 20 | You , you find a house to rent that seems right for your about the price , perhaps a bit high but about right for your level of income . |
| 21 | About right for |
| 22 | Kathleen , is that a bi , about right for a cube . |
| 23 | that 's it yeah , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm , I 'm vaguely recalling it now because it was six months ago since I saw Mick 's but er , yeah that sounds about right |
| 24 | Yeah , probably about right , twenty two years ago . |
| 25 | I 'm not sure , but that sounds about right . |
| 26 | yeah , er , probably be about right |
| 27 | That 's the thing , apparent apparently I could n't even walk straight , and yet there 's me fucking climbing up the outside of a building , which to me sounds about right . |
| 28 | About right |
| 29 | Five that 'll be about right |
| 30 | But , yeah , that 's about a hundred miles you see , that would be about right , yeah . |