Example sentences of "have a right to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 2 | Everyone has a right to first-rate care and everyone has the right to complain if they 're not satisfied . |
| 3 | Everyone has a right to be buried in the churchyard of the parish in which they die — assuming that one exists , and that there is space left . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Article 25 ( 1 ) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , subscribed by the United Kingdom in December 1948 , runs as follows : ‘ Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family , including medical care. , |
| 6 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 7 | Every family needs , and has a right to , a place to live in : no one needs a second home , except perhaps MPs . |
| 8 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 9 | Alida has a right to some freedom , she herself is … |
| 10 | Surely , however , the public has a right to forward well intentioned concerns ? |
| 11 | ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris . |
| 12 | 3 Every resident has a right to be independent |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Everyone has a right to first-rate care and everyone has the right to complain if they 're not satisfied . |
| 15 | I 'm luckier than any man has a right to be . ’ |
| 16 | But you can argue that a woman has a right to the use that she makes of her own body . |
| 17 | As far as this representative model is concerned procedural entitlements are viewed in purely instrumental terms , according to the contribution they may be expected to make to the accuracy of the underlying substantive policy judgments , and since no one has a right to a particular policy outcome , no one has aright either to any particular form of decision-making process . |
| 18 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 19 | Her elder sister rebukes her : ‘ It 's only providing for its family ; it has a right to them . |
| 20 | Rollin writes : ‘ An animal has a right to the kind of life that its nature dictates … . |
| 21 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 22 | It too , in a sense , is a potential person but it would seem the act of a fanatic to insist that it has a right to life . |
| 23 | We consider that a child in care has a right to at least as good an education as any other child . |
| 24 | The fifth text is the central thesis of the Declaration on Religious Freedom : ‘ This Vatican Synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom . |
| 25 | Since he is well built , and inventive , he argues ( in a travesty of logic that echoes Iago 's at a similar point , the thinness of the pretext revealing the strength of the desire ) , he has a right to the land reserved for the son born ‘ by order of law ’ : Since Gloucester loves both sons equally , that means that both by birth and by nature ( to the Renaissance the terms were synonymous ) he can not discriminate good from bad . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He has a right to legal aid and legal representation . |
| 28 | Whilst you 've suggested everybody else has a right to their opinion and does n't make yours the solution ! |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It assumes that he has a right to be paid the fees , charges , and disbursements , but provides that he shall not bring an action to enforce that right until certain preliminary requirements have been satisfied . |