Example sentences of "[noun] has 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 | Alida has a right to some freedom , she herself is … |
| 13 | A cobbler has a right to retain mended shoes until they are paid for . |
| 14 | They may also have to devote energy searching for services to which the child has a right . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Every child has a right to the best education and every parent should be confident that their child gets the best start in life . |
| 19 | Spanish officials in Brussels insist that Spain has a right to increase emissions because its current rate is lower than most EC countries . |
| 20 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 21 | If planning permission is refused , or an enforcement notice served , the developer has a right of appeal to the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 22 | Regarding the involvement of others , besides teachers , we are unlikely to have a Swedish style debate in Parliament , despite the fact that the community has a right to it , and that curricular decision-making is a political act . |
| 23 | The unpaid seller has a right in the circumstances provided by section 41(1) to retain possession of the goods until he is paid or payment is tendered to him . |
| 24 | Most important is the implied condition that the seller has a right to sell the goods . |
| 25 | However , no sensible caddie has a right to start pulling out clubs until their boss says so . |
| 26 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 27 | ‘ Any man who is banker to the great John Stevenson has a right to be happy at this hour , ’ he said . |
| 28 | The interest of the members in the company is freely transferable between the members , but in case of any intended sale to an outsider , first the other members ( in proportion ) , secondly the company itself , and thirdly a person appointed by the members ' meeting has a right of pre-emption . |
| 29 | However , the effect of requiring unanimity means in practice that any one constituent body has a right of veto . |
| 30 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |