Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ Now I feel that I 'm able to fight for my full rights as a woman and as a human being … |
| 2 | The right to information about their legal rights and obligations and those of their landlord . |
| 3 | The Federal Bureau of Investigation said last week that up to 30 cult members inside the compound had expressed interest in leaving if they received assurances about their legal rights . |
| 4 | A further small difference is that we will be requiring intending voters and candidates to supply information about their electoral rights in their home member state . |
| 5 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 6 | A bizarre aspect of the case is that Mr Devaty 's ‘ crimes ’ include the apparently punishable offence of sending the authorities papers about their human rights abuses . |
| 7 | She had a well-earned international reputation and received many awards for her human rights work . |
| 8 | The latter would regard it as their natural right . ) |
| 9 | Polly Peck raised half of the £560million Del Monte Fresh Fruit purchase cost through its three-for-seven rights issue , but it has just paid £69million for control of Sansui . |
| 10 | Although individual students may seek to press the system to its limits , whether in securing credit for prior learning in the admissions process , or in pursuing a formal appeal against a felt injustice over assessment , or in taking advantage of such open learning arrangements as are available , the student body as a whole seems depressingly unconcerned about its academic rights . |
| 11 | But we will endeavour to represent our members and to push for their ordinary rights , their just rights more than just rights they , are earned rights and should be afforded to them . |
| 12 | With all his theological subtlety and insight into human behaviour he accepted the common views of the time in attributing to the saints in Heaven a concern for their worldly rights which , if they had not been part of an eternal order of the universe , would have disgraced a schoolboy . |
| 13 | Edward pushed forward the bounds of secular authority usually in reaction to some clerical move or in defence of the needs and customs of royal government ; but as much as by the king this boundary was advanced by his subjects , whether suing for their individual rights and interests through the king 's courts or acting as royal justices , and not a few of these aggressive subjects were in fact clergy themselves . |
| 14 | Just as the Central Swiss communities around the Vierwaldstattersee had to struggle for their independent rights against the Austrian Hapsburgs , their confederates to the west of Bern had to confront the might of the Burgundian realm . |
| 15 | The work of COPPES is but a small indication of the determination and resolve of the women prisoners to demand respect for their human rights , Despite their exceptionally disheartening conditions , they have Protested using all the means at their disposal and have carried out educational and political activities designed to support the work of the FDR-FMLN : |
| 16 | An article in Le Monde on March 22 , 1990 , pointed to the increasing concern among Third-World countries that they would become the target of criticism for their human rights records as the confrontation between East and West declined . |
| 17 | To resolve the question , Lord Carlisle was given a charter that covered the whole area and the Courteen family were given , by way of compensation for their neglected rights , the permission to trade with India which caused the East India Company so much trouble in the 1630s . |
| 18 | At least education has given people confidence to stand up for their own rights ’ . |
| 19 | Only by being more actively involved in identifying issues , organizing action , and thereby helping themselves by fighting for their own rights , can older people hope to improve matters . |
| 20 | For many the initial reason for entering a progressive health organization is to fight for their own rights and welfare . |
| 21 | Additionally , confidence can be useful for certain types of secrets for which other rights are inappropriate such as the recipe for Coca-Cola or a secret research technique or industrial process . |
| 22 | Aristocratic families in Europe defended the purity of their descent ( the basis of their legitimate right to rule ) , and now , by an heroic leap of imagination , racial purity comes to be attached to whole peoples for certain political purposes . |
| 23 | An overwhelming vote of no confidence in it it was passed at the annual Police Federation conference in 1989 , with one member being reported in the press as having described the Authority as ‘ hell-bent on depriving police officers of their civil rights ’ . |
| 24 | The working class wanted a drastic improvement in their wages and conditions ; a transformation in their relationship with management ; and firm entrenchment of their civil rights . |
| 25 | There is no reason why the privilege should be blatantly exploited to deprive the plaintiffs of their civil rights and remedies if the privilege is not necessary to protect Mr. Tully . |
| 26 | Moreover , it will be guilty of giving succour , however tacit , to a regime where people continue to be deprived of their democratic rights , to suffer and to be killed , purely on the grounds of the colour of their skin . |
| 27 | Dronfield responded with an open public meeting , where the residents mounted a strong defence of their parental rights systematically vilifying Outram into the bargain . |
| 28 | Will any of their existing rights be taken from them under the new arrangements ? |
| 29 | The shipwrights of Exeter , for example , bound themselves in 1766 not to work for masters who were seeking to employ them at " less wages than have been from time immemorially paid to journeymen shipwrights " , to " deprive " them of " several of their ancient rights and privileges " and to impose longer hours than had been " usual and customary " . |
| 30 | But the vast majority preferred to live with the moral problem and forgo the reputed advantages of freely hired labour rather than contemplate the abolition of their traditional rights over their peasants . |