Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] a right to " in BNC.

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1 Each professor has a right to money and manpower resources depending only on his level of seniority and not on his track record in research .
2 NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to .
3 ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris .
4 The fifth text is the central thesis of the Declaration on Religious Freedom : ‘ This Vatican Synod declares that the human person has a right to religious freedom .
5 I 'm luckier than any man has a right to be . ’
6 in fact that would be catered for by other provisions because erm under the directive on choice , any individual has a right to er say that they would like to go to a particular home .
7 A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up …
8 If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’
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