Example sentences of "[noun] had a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , the question whether , apart from the undertaking , the association had a right to make representations was not in issue in that case . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The document stated that land was the property of the people living on it , and that every citizen had a right to a plot . |
| 7 | The Generalísimo was thoroughly imbued with the idea that Spain had a right to territory in North Africa . |
| 8 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 9 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 10 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 11 | The husband had a right to dispose of them for his own benefit while he lived , and his wife had no power of disposition during that time , though , if she survived him , and they had not been disposed of , they would be hers again . |
| 12 | This document proclaimed to the people of Wales that members of a society with mental handicap had a right to the same services as everyone else , had the right to be treated as individuals , and might need special assistance to make this possible . |
| 13 | A claimant had a right of settlement in only one parish , originally in his or her father 's place of birth . |
| 14 | But the Prime Minister replied that each person had a right of appeal against tribunal decisions and that a report by the British Refugee Council had indicated how excellent the system was . |
| 15 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 16 | Martin apologized because he had shouted at Alice in front of them all — he had been no angrier , Nick considered , than any father had a right to be — but after that , he seemed disinclined to discuss her . |
| 17 | All would be revealed , Mr Gorbachev said on national television , for the Soviet people had a right to know . |
| 18 | He accepted that people had a right to prefer buildings ‘ such as custom and habit associate with the name of ‘ church ’ ’ . |
| 19 | People had a right to decide how to spend their money rather than the government . |
| 20 | But that was not to say that people had a right to it , that they were entitled to it . |
| 21 | They claimed the Scottish people had a right to know what it was about . |
| 22 | They claimed the Scottish people had a right to know what it was about . |
| 23 | He must decide , for example , whether it actually follows from the assumed convention of legislation that Elmer has a right to his inheritance because of the statute of wills , or from the putative convention of precedent that Mrs. McLoughlin had a right to compensation because of past judicial decisions . |
| 24 | Dressed in a charcoal-grey suit and white shirt , he looked more handsome than any man had a right to look , and she felt her resolve slip for a moment . |
| 25 | About 1815 , Clarkson made the assumption explicit that Great Britain had a right to see her colonies managed on principles , and a morality not contrary to her own . |
| 26 | By the law of Parliament , bishops had a right to sit . |
| 27 | Society had a right to expect the best from those with responsibility for its defence . |
| 28 | Their parents had travelled thousands of miles , from all parts of the globe , to make a new home in quiet England , safe among the ashes of empire , only to have their children greeted by Mr Malik , a man more exotic than any schoolboy had a right to expect a teacher to be . |
| 29 | That next step is as to whether natural justice makes any requirement that Winchester had a right to be heard before the decision on 30 October was made . |
| 30 | The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising . |