Example sentences of "[noun] have a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even a mistress has a right to understand her grief . ’ |
| 2 | 6.5 Each Party shall be entitled at the completion of the Project to require delivery up of all copies of any information originating from it except information which the recipient in each case has a right to retain or use for the purposes of clause [ Exploitation of Results ] . |
| 3 | It does not stipulate that the defendant has a right to win a lawsuit whenever and just because the plaintiff does not : it insists that neither side may have a right to win . |
| 4 | Society of New York Hospital , held that ‘ every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body . ’ |
| 5 | The nub of informed consent , they say , is that every human of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body , and they trace the history of informed consent citing the Nuremberg Code ( 1949 ) and the Declaration of Helsinki ( 1964 , amended 1983 ) , which in the aftermath of war atrocities , attempted to ensure the principle of informed consent . |
| 6 | We will ensure that every employee has a right to participate in decision-making in their enterprise . |
| 7 | Some people think that if a lender refuses a credit application , the applicant has a right to know why ( not just the right to ask whether a credit reference bureau has been used , and if so what is on their file with that bureau ) . |
| 8 | Each professor has a right to money and manpower resources depending only on his level of seniority and not on his track record in research . |
| 9 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 10 | ‘ The starting point of our domestic law is that every citizen has a right to do what he likes , unless restrained by the common law , including the law of contract , or by statute . |
| 11 | ‘ It follows therefore that every citizen has a right to criticise an inefficient or corrupt government without fear of civil as well as criminal prosecution . |
| 12 | The , the point of the change in our constitution was actually to er move strictly away from all parish organizations having a right to representative here , and just a small number have elected . |
| 13 | There is a recognised case for the utilities to have a right of compulsory acquiring the use of land . |
| 14 | However , the question whether , apart from the undertaking , the association had a right to make representations was not in issue in that case . |
| 15 | T. J. Clark for the defendant argued that the adequacy of consideration is not to be investigated ; that the defendant had a right to complain and that promising to forgo that right constituted good consideration . |
| 16 | Whatever date one ascribes to the letter , Remigius conceived of Childeric 's power in terms of Roman provincial rule , and he also thought that the clergy had a right to advise , even though the ruler might be barbarian and pagan . |
| 17 | The PNC meeting in Algiers in September , while welcoming the latest efforts for a peace conference , had reiterated that the PLO had a right to form its own delegation from " inside and outside the homeland , including Jerusalem " [ see also p. 38453 ] . |
| 18 | Yet his subjects had a right of resistance , of rebellion against him , if he failed to rule them justly and to give them due protection . |
| 19 | The document stated that land was the property of the people living on it , and that every citizen had a right to a plot . |
| 20 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 21 | I 'm not arguing about that at all , but the people of Wheatley have a right to the same protection that everybody else has under the planning axe . |
| 22 | Drinkers have a right to know whether the beer they are drinking is a genuine barley malt product or whether it is stuffed full of such tasty ingredients as corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , amyloglucosidase , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 23 | Alida has a right to some freedom , she herself is … |
| 24 | A cobbler has a right to retain mended shoes until they are paid for . |
| 25 | They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right . |
| 26 | The study investigated children in care whose social workers wanted to find homes with substitute families for them , taking as two basic assumptions that every child has a right to a family of his [ or her ] own , and that adoption and fostering are not completely separate categories but have a considerable area of overlap . |
| 27 | Shearer also sees the centre as ‘ working towards our own version of the Children 's Charter — every child has a right to be able to breathe properly . |
| 28 | All that a child has a right to claim from his father is nourishment and education and the things nature furnishes for the support of life but he has no right to demand rule or dominion from him . |
| 29 | Every child has a right to the best education and every parent should be confident that their child gets the best start in life . |
| 30 | Spanish officials in Brussels insist that Spain has a right to increase emissions because its current rate is lower than most EC countries . |