Example sentences of "we have [art] right " in BNC.

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1 Science has given us the technology , but do we have the right to use it ?
2 We 've no right to wish our problems on each other .
3 We 've a right to govern our own country , and we 've a right not to be told by other countries that we should be split into two , that we 're two different nations because they decided to split us down the middle .
4 Of course we had no right to expect the life of the household , let alone the street , to be hushed because of us , but in the absence of quiet it took me hours to drift off .
5 We had no right to involve Frank in any battle of wills between Mazzin and his colleagues , so we had to avoid a confrontation .
6 We did n't think we had a right to judge .
7 People clung to our arms as we walked out and an Officer emptied Pernod over Gibeau 's tunic , telling him that it was Christmas and that we had a right to enjoy ourselves .
8 parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature
9 We had a right to know whose bastard we were fostering . ’
10 I also remind the Minister that the then Prime Minister , the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) , told me in a letter that we had every right to help organise a campaign for former employees of British Shipbuilders , who had a right to 13 weeks unemployment or supplementary benefit .
11 Topic , we had the right to choose topic , and then one girl
12 As patients we have every right to decide what happens to us .
13 Suppose we honestly believe that some treatment is unlikely to bring us a benefit that makes worthwhile the pain or distress involved , we have every right to refuse it .
14 However , I hope that the hon. Gentleman will recognise that earlier today I announced record inward investment figures for Wales , and we have every right to be proud of those figures .
15 We have a right to know .
16 We have a right to know what is going on , so I went to find out . ’
17 You would agree that we have a right to seek this information ? ’
18 And we have a right to ask you , as the creator of the tool , not only whether the way you are forging it is acceptable to the dignity of man , but whether the results can be safely presented to the world . ’
19 Fundamentally , all that we have a right to expect from our theory is a battleground of replicators , jostling , jockeying , fighting for a future in the genetic hereafter .
20 We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation .
21 We have a right to be happy . ’
22 If five hundred or five thousand copies of a book have been printed , we have a right to insist , among so many , on a high standard in the one we purchase .
23 We have a right and a duty as a community to do all that is lawfully in our power to prevent its being disfigured or destroyed ’ .
24 We have a right to our opinions as well , you know . ’
25 If again we talk about the locality where thinking takes place we have a right to say that this locality is the paper on which we write or the mouth which speaks .
26 When we are spending about 6% of our gross national product on health services we have a right to expect improvements in the public health from them , both directly and through the influence of health service staff on health policy .
27 And I think that 's something which we have a right to raise with them .
28 I want to turn this right round because a couple of people have mentioned guilt and er I I suspect that one of the reasons that women are a bit worried about talking about depression or or campaigning for changes in policy , or more funding , or or whatever , is that for a long time women have been thought of as the weaker sex , more emotional , more nervous , by a , a a male establishment , I 'm talking about past centuries , is n't there a case for saying there 's actually we have a right to be depressed , I mean , obviously it 's normal , ninety three of you get depressed from time to time , the majority of you do n't think you clinically depressive if it is , if it 's normal to be depressed should n't the services to cope with depression , if we need outside help , be there and there 's no shame in it ?
29 THE CONSTITUTIONAL CRISIS OF 1909 In all seriousness , my Lords , we have a right to ask where this kind of thing is going to stop .
30 Subsequently we have reason to believe that he is keeping additional narcotics on the premises and we have a right to search your home without a warrant . ’
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