Example sentences of "[pers pn] have a [adj] right to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've a perfect right to my feelings . |
| 2 | And you have a good right to be … because … ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 5 | For this purpose , shares should be regarded as non-equity if they have a restricted right to dividends or capital , or are redeemable . |
| 6 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 7 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 8 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 9 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 10 | The court held that the facts did not constitute robbery because the accused was not dishonest , because he thought he had a legal right to the money ( see the discussion of s.2(1) ( a ) above ) . |