Example sentences of "have a right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I object to the attitude that we have a right to kill to dispose of . |
| 2 | You have a right to use public areas in the pursuance of your lawful hobby in the same way as everyone else has . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Projects thus affected should , for instance , know the ‘ evidence ’ against them and have a right to answer specific allegations . |
| 5 | The Germans are a peaceful people , but they have a right to live , and to live as Germans , and they are convinced of the fact that they have a mission for all the nations of the earth ; if one hinders them from fulfilling their mission then they have the right to use force . |
| 6 | Do n't poor children have a right to live and grow-up as anyone else ? |
| 7 | We have to , we want to live in our own country , and we have a right to live in our own country . |
| 8 | But , he added ‘ While these people have a right to live as they want , they are infringing on the rights of other people . |
| 9 | They have a right to take you with them . ’ |
| 10 | They have a right to honour their war dead . |
| 11 | His interest in the precedents is exhausted , for this purpose at least , once he is satisfied that according to his conception of law they establish only that mothers at the scene have a right to recover , and this is clear immediately and with no reflection about larger underlying principles whose nature is a matter of dispute . |
| 12 | The minority still have a right to object to the court but that opposition is usually known and dealt with before the bidder becomes committed to acquire any shares in the target . |
| 13 | The media have a right to publish defamatory remarks at the risk of paying heavy damages if they can not subsequently be justified . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | I have a right to say no . |
| 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 | Instead of realizing that they have a right to say , if God has no respect for persons , why should men be ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Patients are entitled to receive accurate information about their treatment and the risks we ask them to take ; they also have a right to withhold consent from such treatment if they feel unhappy about accepting these risks . |
| 20 | Milan denied , however , that they plan to cut his current salary , as they have a right to do under Italian rules when a player has been out of action for more than six months . |
| 21 | If the subordinate members of society can be persuaded to believe that those who dominate have a right to do so , and that those who have great material advantage have a right to it , then they are very unlikely to challenge or threaten the privileged . |
| 22 | It follows that the power that results when shareholders pool their resources in corporate form is legitimate , because in possessing and exercising it they are doing only what they have a right to do . |
| 23 | By section 12 , the senior police officer is empowered to impose conditions on the proposed march if he reasonably believes that it may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or alternatively that the purpose of persons organising the march is to intimidate others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 24 | The wording of section 12(1) ( b ) is , however , slightly unfortunate in requiring the intimidation of others ‘ with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do . ’ |
| 25 | The grounds upon which the powers to impose conditions may be exercised are very similar to those which are available in relation to processions ; section 14 provides that if the senior police officer believes that a public assembly may result in serious public disorder , serious damage to property or serious disruption to the life of the community , or that the purposes of the persons organising it is to intimidate others with a view to compelling them not to do an act they have a right to do , or to do an act they have a right not to do , he may impose conditions as to the place of the assembly , its maximum duration or the maximum number of persons who may constitute it as may appear to him necessary to prevent the disorder , damage , disruption or intimidation . |
| 26 | You have a right to wear saris , turbans or any clothing required by your race or religion . |
| 27 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | That means that I have a right to access to your house . |
| 30 | Erm as a private individual I have a right to inherit my father 's house when he dies . |