Example sentences of "the right [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There in the channel of rock they parted , Thomas going to the left , Harry to the right towards Wales . |
| 2 | The second case in which a requirement may be made to provide a specimen in accordance with section 7(4) is where the driver , having provided two specimens of breath one of which contains no more than 50 microgrammes of alcohol in 100 millilitres of breath , claims the right under section 8(2) to have that specimen replaced by a specimen of blood or urine provided in accordance with section 7(4) . |
| 3 | 3 Support The right of support and protection for the benefit of the Premises as is now enjoyed from all other parts of the Centre It is suggested that this right strengthens the landlord 's covenant for quiet enjoyment , and the only question is as to whether to extend it to include 'shelter " , but this is probably unnecessary . |
| 4 | ( The recessed verandah to the right of centre , with its sliding picture windows , was added at a later date . ) |
| 5 | As for the future of schools themselves , one effect of a report requiring a massive expenditure of public funds was to turn political attention ( by those to the right of centre ) away from threatening plans for universal social security towards the milder , and less expensive , alternative of educational reform . |
| 6 | On this occasion the N1 cam was to the right of centre and I 'd knitted the right side of the neck correctly , with no problem . |
| 7 | He thought he could remember roughly where it was : on the side of Big Allen facing him , the northern face , almost at the foot and a little to the right of centre . |
| 8 | I would defend to the hilt the right of scientists to experiment on animals in the pursuit of pure knowledge ’ ( 21 ) . |
| 9 | Medieval law was indeed profoundly conservative , and most medieval vassals took it for granted that the right of resistance was a law which could not be abrogated . |
| 10 | None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance . |
| 11 | Thus the principles of popular sovereignty , consent and the right of resistance , with all their potentially radical implications , were absorbed by Locke into a theory which had property and property rights at its core . |
| 12 | It is true that the establishment Whigs found it increasingly necessary to downplay the original contract and the right of resistance , and came to argue that resistance was only allowable in exceptionable circumstances , such as those of 1688 . |
| 13 | Finally a word about the right of resistance . |
| 14 | And that is at least one of the problems with Locke 's theory of the right of resistance to arbitrary government . |
| 15 | In a joint statement they said Mr Bush ‘ holds it in his power to deny the right of choice to the poorest , most vulnerable American women ’ . |
| 16 | The appeal court dealt a blow to the government 's education reforms by backing the right of teachers to boycott the national curriculum tests . |
| 17 | In addition , in 1174 Henry abolished the right of wreck in England , Poitou and Gascony . |
| 18 | Yet when Henry abolished the right of wreck throughout his dominions he made an exception of Brittany . |
| 19 | Merchants could buy safe-conducts and licences exempting them from the right of wreck from the Duke of Brittany . |
| 20 | This attitude was sustained until August 1939 by the converse attitudes of many on the Right of Conservatism , who clearly sympathized with Hitler and saw him as a bastion against Bolshevism both in Germany and in Spain . |
| 21 | They included : ‘ to enlarge the Right of Asylum and help political refugees to find work . ’ |
| 22 | Tighter immigration controls , visa restrictions , a shrinking of the right of asylum , can not do more than reduce the rate of immigration . |
| 23 | The Commission would have increased powers , including for the first time the power to propose legislation in the highly-sensitive area of home affairs on such issues as the right of asylum , immigration and residency rights ( hitherto discussed at an intergovernmental level in the " Trevi group " ) . |
| 24 | Chancellor Kohl said that Germany would remain a " nation of friendship for foreigners " but stressed that the right of asylum should not be abused , a point which he again emphasized on Oct. 13 when he described those who attacked foreigners as " fools and criminals " bringing shame on Germany . |
| 25 | In Germany the parliamentary faction of the largest of the ruling parties , the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , on Feb. 12 voted to make its approval of the treaty dependent on the passage of an amendment to the country 's Basic Law ( constitution ) to restrict the right of asylum . |
| 26 | Such cautionary tales lost nothing in the telling , and they served to elevate the power of the shrines of the saints , and also to protect and strengthen the right of asylum claimed for churches in Roman Law and in the Church canons . |
| 27 | ( The pope may have been influenced by the fact that three years earlier the Spanish government had limited the right of asylum in Madrid , where it had also been quite unjustifiably extended , to the houses of foreign ambassadors . ) |
| 28 | The right of viewers to reply to the violation of human rights and privacy is guaranteed . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's Court of Appeal ruling overturned a High Court judge 's decision last month in favour of Hi-Tech Xtravision , of Camberley , Surrey , which makes and sells rival decoders and which challenged the right of BBC Enterprises to grant an exclusive decoder distributorship to Northampton-based Space Communications ( Sat Tel ) Ltd . |
| 30 | The effect has been to deny the right of employers to a proper say in the educational process because their interest has been confined to recruitment after the event rather than as participants in provision . |