Example sentences of "right [to-vb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a country surrenders its right to issue its own coinage , and does so irrevocably , it loses its sovereignty and thus the basis of its existence as a separate nation state . |
| 2 | It is characterized by concerns over the threats they perceive to their right to conduct their own activities ( as they see all three-threats , rights and interests ) . |
| 3 | Moreover , the complacent acceptance of socialization as a justification for adult authority denies adolescents the right to mount their own critiques , just as reformers never allowed the possibility of a reasoned and intelligent adolescent point of view . |
| 4 | He had no right to treat her this way . |
| 5 | 2 ) the Campaign for freedom of Information is trying to promote a bill which would give patients the right to see their own medical records . |
| 6 | ‘ And you have no right to promise him any money ! ’ |
| 7 | The Abbey was founded by David I in 1178 and he granted to the Canons the right to establish their own Burgh of Canongate between the Abbey and the royal burgh of Edinburgh . |
| 8 | By Article V of the Convention , the sultan promised to negotiate with the Serbs on their demands for freedom of worship ; the right to establish their own schools and printing presses ; the return of areas won during the first revolt and forcibly returned to Turkish rule in 1813 ; the right of Serbian merchants to trade freely throughout the Ottoman empire ; a prohibition on any new Turkish settlement outside the major towns ; and an increase in the powers of Serbian government . |
| 9 | and interested parents have a right to know what this initiative actually means . |
| 10 | These had not only control of promotions in them , with powers of life and death over their men , but even the right to impose their own systems of drill and tactics . |
| 11 | The revised draft committed its participants to a ‘ sovereign federal democratic state ’ based upon a voluntary union of republics with equal rights , each of which would have the right to choose its own forms of property and government . |
| 12 | For two and a half years she has received no medical attention and has thus been denied one of the most basic conditions laid down by the United Nations for the detention of prisoners awaiting trial — namely , the right to choose her own doctor . |
| 13 | Also , as it so happens , in August 1941 Winston Churchill had a meeting with President Roosevelt on board a British battleship , off the coast of Newfoundland , and that was followed by a further meeting at Christmas in Washington , when they agreed to send aid to Russia in the form of armaments , etc. , also they drew up the Atlantic Charter under which it was proclaimed that all peoples , in all parts of the world , would have the right to choose their own form of government . |
| 14 | Individuals should also have the right to choose their own time of retirement . |
| 15 | Indeed , so firmly did they reject the view that adults should be given the right to choose their own cinema entertainment — ‘ whatever turns you on ’ , as the saying went — that their Report marked the beginning of a historic swing of the pendulum away from what can now be seen as the libertarian heyday of British media law . |
| 16 | One of the privileges which British residents did enjoy , under the provisions of an old treaty , was the right to choose their own judge , the Conservador dos Ingleses , who was , in fact , usually the Corregedor ( Chief Judge ) of the island . |
| 17 | And when these poor fools won their vote what would it really mean to them but the right to choose their own oppressors ? |
| 18 | We 've had a debate on Local Management of Schools opposed by the Labour Party where we have seen that the right to choose their own children 's quality of education and where school governing bodies can direct their cash where they want has been extremely popular . |
| 19 | Edward for his part had to accommodate himself to political and financial realities , and was prepared to compromise with the commons in return for taxes , though he would not give way on the fundamental issue of the right to choose his own councillors . |
| 20 | In particular he demanded the right to choose his own ministers , who were to be responsible to him alone , and to exercise an effective supervision over the workings of the machinery of government . |
| 21 | The monarch remained the chief executive in the state : he alone continued to determine all matters of policy ( foreign and domestic ) ; he had the right to choose his own ministers ; he retained the right to veto legislation ; and he was left with the power to determine the summoning , proroguing and dissolution of Parliament . |
| 22 | But it 's still my right to choose my own form of sexual self-determination . |
| 23 | These included : ( i ) the right to set their own prices ( except where the enterprise had a monopoly , in which case prices would continue to be regulated by the state ) ; ( ii ) freedom to set wages and issue stocks and bonds ; and ( iii ) the right of employee councils in state enterprises to reject state plans . |
| 24 | If you choose to have your nose pierced that is your concern but , to be fair , the pub also has a right to set its own rules . |
| 25 | It is no , it is no coincidence that in a question asked today to the Labour Party , we will find that we a year ago when the Tory 's proposals were still being implemented , over eleven hundred people were granted in the right to buy their own Council house . |
| 26 | ‘ Surely , ’ said Miss Williamsburgh , ‘ the poor lady has the right to organise her own rescue at her leisure ? |
| 27 | Universities have the right to award their own degrees ; polytechnic and college degrees have to be validated ( that is , approved and underwritten ) , usually by the Council for National Academic Awards ( CNAA ) but occasionally by a university . |
| 28 | The procedure is that : LCH gives notice of its decision to consolidate to the relevant exchange , the selling member and the buying member ; the seller is charged with the conduct of LCH 's case against the buyer ; and the buyer is charged with LCH 's case against the seller ; copies of all pleadings being supplied to LCH and LCH retaining the right to submit its own arguments to the arbitrators . |
| 29 | Again , since it is assumed by this act of faith that all individuals are equal in the sight of God , man or both , then dissent must be tolerated and each has the right to put his own point of view . |
| 30 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |