Example sentences of "[prep] its [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This definition was summed up in the formula libertas ecclesiae , by which was understood the independence of the Church from all lay interference in ecclesiastical appointments , in the exercise of the Church 's spiritual functions , in the administration of its temporal rights and properties , and in the immunity of clerical persons from secular jurisdiction . |
| 4 | Nearly 95 per cent of its one-for-four rights issue was taken up , with Panmure Gordon placing the remainder at 140p . |
| 5 | Wessex Water has received acceptances for 93 per cent of its one-for-six rights issue at 480p per new share . |
| 6 | The real Scotland of today knows exactly where it stands : on its own in defence of its national rights and determined that Scottish votes will count in future . |
| 7 | However , it must be remembered that despite these minimal gains , labour lost all of its institutional rights , the right to organise , freedom of movement , the right of collective bargaining , and freedom of vocational choice . |
| 8 | But this did not prevent the Dominicans from setting out that war could be justified as a means of restoring order in situations of political or social disharmony , for instance between territories ( here we see the beginnings of the idea of the territorial unit and the defence of its justifiable rights ) or between sovereign rulers and their vassals ( if the vassal chose to rebel against his lord and thus fell into a state of disobedience ) . |
| 9 | After referring to the possibility of delay when the Convention was used , and the impact of Article 23 reservations , the court held that the interest of the German Federal Republic in the integrity of its judicial rights was ‘ less compelling in this instance than , for example , where a non-party witness is sought for deposition or where the scope of discovery sought involves more intrusive methods ’ . |
| 10 | The Sri Lankan government has moved to try to counter the criticisms of its human rights record . |
| 11 | To help and advise Amnesty International in the development , testing and promotion of its human rights education materials and methods at all levels of the education system . |
| 12 | The ban was denounced by Greece , and the European Communities ( EC ) issued a statement on Feb. 17 reminding Albania of its human rights commitments under the CSCE treaty . |
| 13 | CHINA yesterday freed three dissidents — including a student , Wang Dan , who topped the most-wanted list after a 1989 crackdown on democracy protests — in a move to check Western criticism of its human rights record . |
| 14 | Throat infection is more common among females who practice oral sex than among men , because the female 's mouth is in direct contact with the infected part ( the tip of the penis ) whereas the male is in contact with an area not infected of its own right ( the clitoris and vulva ) . |
| 15 | Last week Germany got rid of its constitutional right to political asylum , the most liberal in Europe . |
| 16 | ‘ A child should be respected as an individual with its own rights , ’ she stressed . |
| 17 | The ECJ insisted upon its sole right to interpret EC law ( as set out in the Treaty of Rome — see p. 15951 ) and said that there was a danger that the EEA court could pre-empt ECJ rulings . |
| 18 | Although Blindcraft is the responsibility of the director of social work , and receives financial support from the Region , it has its own budget and is seen as a business in its own rights . |
| 19 | The personality with which Braque invests his jug is something that the jug possesses in its own right . |
| 20 | And it is a trip in its own right , on the teller 's part . |
| 21 | A hedge can be a dense , glossy barrier , an informal background to herbaceous plants or , with flowers and bright fruits , a colourful feature in its own right . |
| 22 | Half-points will also be upgraded to full points for techniques which catch the opponent as he attacks ; for deflecting the opponent and scoring on his undefended back ; for techniques which immediately follow a sweep or throw ; for an onslaught of continuous and effective attacks , each component of which scored in its own right . |
| 23 | All consciousness does in its own right is to tell us that it is something internal which fulfils a certain role . |
| 24 | Although the majority of scientists tend to be a little coy about metaphysical matters in their professional publications , they are often less so outside when writing elsewhere , being prone to describe the framework of presuppositions about perception within which they conduct their investigations as if it were a discovery in its own right and that ‘ discovery ’ an explanation of perception . |
| 25 | It seems that Carnedd Uchaf has crept into the list , but is this not subsidiary summit of Foel Gras rather than a 3000'er in its own right ? |
| 26 | The contemporary historicism , fuelled by Marx and Foucault , presents history as a force in its own right , ceaselessly dramatizing clashes of class and power . |
| 27 | War in Henry V is a test of kingship rather than a subject in its own right . |
| 28 | The texts themselves are inspirational , but Beyer 's lettering style for this commission , which treated each letter as a piece of incised sculpture in its own right , greatly adds to their declamatory power . |
| 29 | By 1959 , the 1.7-square mile site had become a small industrial town in its own right and production peaked at 470,000 cars , trucks and tractors . |
| 30 | But routine policing in a divided society also constitutes an important substantive topic in its own right , for it provides an additional dimension to the analysis of routine policing , as well as expanding and clarifying our understanding of what divided societies are like . |