Example sentences of "rights to " in BNC.
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| 1 | How far will terrestrial broadcasters compete for the rights to SPORTS coverage ? |
| 2 | Residents of these homes should have the same rights to choice of general practitioner and to NHS care as any other person . |
| 3 | Both Virgin and Thorn EMI are thought to be vying for the lucrative Jobete in Detroit , which controls the publishing rights to a catalogue of 15,000 Motown titles . |
| 4 | The emigration has been encouraged by a series of British Nationality Acts stripping even the 3.25 million people holding Hong Kong ‘ British ’ passports of any rights to residence in Britain . |
| 5 | Firms win TV rights to Commons committees |
| 6 | It claims to be the athletics network , having bought exclusive rights to the sport in Britain for £10.5m in 1985 . |
| 7 | BSB itself went into partnership with the BBC to negotiate jointly with the Football Association for exclusive rights to England football and FA Cup matches , and Sky first got into bed with BBC to win exclusive British rights to the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno world heavyweight title fight . |
| 8 | BSB itself went into partnership with the BBC to negotiate jointly with the Football Association for exclusive rights to England football and FA Cup matches , and Sky first got into bed with BBC to win exclusive British rights to the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno world heavyweight title fight . |
| 9 | Indeed West German satellite companies are so stong that one bought exclusive German rights to Wimbledon this year , just as a similar Swedish company did there , each denying the traditional terrestrial stations access . |
| 10 | Money seems little object , and one German satellite station has spent $25 million buying the rights to ATP 's new tennis tour for the next five years . |
| 11 | An American studio had approached Willy for the rights to the play , but ‘ they envisaged a Brat Pack movie , packaging first and script later , ’ and he turned them down . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's a question of pragmatism , because we found to obtain rights to certain tracks would have cost more than the budget for the entire picture . |
| 13 | Unions are demonstrating a growing sophistication and success in their use of the law , while the courts are increasingly aware of the difference between an employer who is frivolously testing his rights to its limits and an enterprise with genuine reason for seeking an interim injunction . |
| 14 | Nor would rank and file trade unionists give up their rights to be ballotted on strike action and the appointment of officials , Mr Hammond said . |
| 15 | The overlord Greg Dyke , having paid a minimum of £11m a year for exclusive rights to the League ( at the current rate of inflation , the four-year , index-linked bill could soar over £50m ) , hit his audience target of eight million when Manchester United beat Liverpool thrillingly on New Year 's Day . |
| 16 | I do not recognise in your description of an employer ‘ frivolously testing his rights to its limits ’ the port employers or British Rail , which both this summer deliberately set out to overturn a majority strike ballot by manipulating the legal process . |
| 17 | Norman Fowler , Secretary of State for Employment , is planning to couple announcements about further trade union legislation in the next session of Parliament with an attack on Labour 's plans for restoring rights to trade unions , including the right to carry out a form of secondary , ‘ sympathy' action . |
| 18 | ICI disposal : Imperial Chemical Industries has sold its US over-the-counter drugs business in a $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson-Merck Consumer Pharmaceuticals , which also gives it the rights to Merck 's Elavil anti-depressant drug . |
| 19 | IMPERIAL Chemical Industries seems to have struck a surprisingly good $450m ( £285m ) deal with Johnson & Johnson and Merck in swapping its US over-the counter pharmaceutical business for the rights to an established anti-depressant drug and a substantial , if as yet unquantified , cash sum . |
| 20 | If they made a profit margin of 15 per cent to 20 per cent then the the value of the deal , which includes the rights to Merck 's Elavil anti-depressant , is equivalent to 18 times pre-tax profits . |
| 21 | By acquiring the rights to Merck 's Elival , ICI will gain expertise in marketing drugs for the central nervous system to support its own products in that area which are currently being developed . |
| 22 | Like Hardy , Lewis started impressively , knocking Garber to the floor with two thundering rights to the chin inside a minute . |
| 23 | Jackson already owns the rights to most of The Beatles ' songs and would , if successful , suddenly have shares in former label-mates Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross . |
| 24 | A comparatively tranquil province until 1968 , the liberal attempt to reform the inbred Protestant ascendancy and extend civil rights to the exploited Catholic minority led to a revival of the unbridgeable schisms and endemic violence in Ulster . |
| 25 | The rights to the writer 's compositions will remain with the publishing company for between ten and fifteen years after the expiry of the deal . |
| 26 | Also , if the publisher enters into liquidation , the writer must have the right to terminate the agreement and get back all rights to his or her songs . |
| 27 | A lot of money was spent on the acquisition in 1920 of the rights to a series of novels by H. G. Wells , Edgar Wallace , Marie Corelli and Conan Doyle , but little care was expended on ensuring that these books were transmuted into workable scripts . |
| 28 | Just how weak were Rank 's budgetary controls can be seen from their dealings with Gabriel Pascal , the Hungarian producer whose brief career was built on his having persuaded George Bernard Shaw to trust him with the film rights to his plays . |
| 29 | In 1955 the company picked up the film rights to a popular sci-fi TV series . |
| 30 | DDR citizens have a right to a passport but only conditional rights to a visa for departure . |