Example sentences of "we have a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We did n't think we had a right to judge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | ‘ We had a right to know whose bastard we were fostering . ’ |
| 6 | We have a right to know . |
| 7 | We have a right to know what is going on , so I went to find out . ’ |
| 8 | You would agree that we have a right to seek this information ? ’ |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 12 | We have a right to be happy . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | We have a right to our opinions as well , you know . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And I think that 's something which we have a right to raise with them . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | We shall have to consider that decision if and when the time comes , and we have a right in this House to do so . |
| 23 | We have a right to say that , if such a major project is to go ahead , we should not — as the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) said earlier — settle for whatever is on the table , but should ensure that it is the right project and that the correct amount of money and no more should be spent on it . |
| 24 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 25 | We 've heard the voice of the Party professionals , we 've heard the voice of the Labour leadership , now let's all speak on behalf of the ordinary trade unionists and say with all the force that is necessary on behalf of those millions , men and women , young and old , we support the Party , we pay for the Party , we have a right to democracy in the Party because never forget it is our Party too , I move . |
| 26 | Can I just say that if you leave the transportation of the animals aside and the training of the animals aside , I do n't think we have a right to use animals in this way . |
| 27 | But when you come to something that says one or more closures of elderly persons ' homes in the east of the county , I do n't think it 's quite fair for people saying we have a right to be told on that , but that it 's insufficiently explicit for them to , to respond to consultation , and to bring their particularly cases forward . |
| 28 | They are made by human beings and if they are not doing what we want then we have a right and a responsibility to change them . |
| 29 | I object to the attitude that we have a right to kill to dispose of . |
| 30 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |