Example sentences of "right to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One argument to which the Government has no right to resort is that statistics do not matter . |
| 2 | Although the now frequently-used concept of ‘ the right to resistance ’ was referred to in the older religion-based natural law theories , it is mainly the more recent , secularised version of natural law with its emphasis on human rights that seems to provide a theoretical underpinning for some of the assertions about the illegality of nuclear war and the justifiability of nuclear protest . |
| 3 | Any of the above is a high price to pay to exercise our right to unforgiveness . |
| 4 | Youth right to honesty |
| 5 | The politicians , promoters and sweeping sentiment converged to conspire against his constitutional right to work : stated barred him from fighting . |
| 6 | The principle of the ‘ right to work ’ was extended to ‘ the right to work for all adults irrespective of age ’ ; but it applied only where the labour of older workers was needed in addition to the full employment of younger men with families ( Roberts 1954 ; Green 1963 ) . |
| 7 | The NUM 's leaders were branded as subversive and the ‘ right to work ’ held as absolute . |
| 8 | The other is the right to treatment as an equal , or , as Dworkin puts it ‘ the right to equal concern and respect in the political decision about how these goods and opportunities are to be distributed ’ ( Dworkin , 1978 , p. 273 ) . |
| 9 | Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify . |
| 10 | He 's in no doubts of his right to treatment |
| 11 | The Catholic Church had enormous secular ( as well as spiritual ) power , since it possessed the right to income from vast expanses of land . |
| 12 | As a Social Security Minister , the Prime Minister devastatingly took away from young people the right to income support . |
| 13 | Redeemable preference shares carry a preferential right to income and to repayment of capital on a winding up , but usually their participation in dividends and capital is capped at a pre-determined amount . |
| 14 | In d'Abreu ( Arthur ) v IRC [ 1978 ] STC 538 , it was held that where a parent released and assigned a right to income , which she had under a trust , for the benefit of her children , there was a sufficient disposition to come within s663 . |
| 15 | Again , working with very wet paint onto dry paper , I apply successive washes of burnt umber and Prussian blue , burnt sienna and yellow ochre with a little more care , pulling diagonally downwards from top right to bottom left . |
| 16 | Again , working with very wet paint onto dry paper , I apply successive washes of burnt umber and Prussian blue , burnt sienna and yellow ochre with a little more care , pulling diagonally downwards from top right to bottom left . |
| 17 | The defendants contend that their contractual right to indemnity costs entitles them to recover or retain all costs actually incurred save only those that are incurred otherwise than bona fide or are incurred for an improper motive . |
| 18 | Lily said , ‘ No , we can get Miss Bradshaw 's signature any time we want it ’ , and Vernon shouted that they had a perfect right to loiter on a public pavement . |
| 19 | The land of a descent group is said to belong to the group as a whole and an outsider to the group does not have a right to cultivation inside the group territory when a member of the gens does so already . |
| 20 | Earlier , at a joint press conference on Dec. 13 , Li had said that both India and China regarded human rights as primarily " the right to development " . |
| 21 | A farmer has every right to rant and rave about such clowns . |
| 22 | Head south and turn left at the point where you see a track on the right to North Appleford . |
| 23 | ‘ We would expect a Labour government to sweep away all those laws which conflict with the right to union recognition , which conflict with the social charter , and which conflict with the conventions of the International Labour Organisation , such as banning unions at GCHQ , Cheltenham , and banning collective pay bargaining for teachers . ’ |
| 24 | Employees will have new rights to be consulted and informed about decisions which affect them , as well as the right to union membership and representation . |
| 25 | We are poor guardians if we do not ensure its unalterable right to childhood , to mystery , to dreams , to tenderness and to love ; if we do not realise that by ceasing to provide authority we may also cease to care ; if we do not conscientiously maintain the spiritual foundations without which the young can not build anew ; if we do not teach that there is a third way , neither reactionary nor libertarian , which still waits to be explored . |
| 26 | pointed out ) , ‘ The right to discovery is a right to see someone else 's documents . |
| 27 | At any rate , the scope of Dworkin 's rights theory as currently formulated is plainly too narrow to generate the kind of economic rights that might be consistent with an equal right to self-development . |
| 28 | This truncated approach is unsatisfactory , and so the discussion that follows will explore the grounds on which ownership of corporate property might be thought morally to entitle shareholders to exercise power , and , more realistically , to delegate that right to management . |
| 29 | As a result , a volunteer remains entitled to his statutory right to redundancy pay . |
| 30 | No right to redundancy and no right to accrued holiday pay . |