Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] had the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | In formulating the original agreement with Fields , Branson had ensured a clause be written in stipulating that , under the Articles , Virgin as the majority shareholder had the right to appoint more than two ‘ A ’ directors , and thereby gain a majority of the board , if it was ‘ not satisfied with the financial position , or the management position of the company ’ . |
| 2 | Some Forest wardens had the right to hunt certain animals and to take certain birds of prey used in hawking . |
| 3 | The Local Education Authority had the right to take up another 25 per cent of the places ( the so-called ‘ reserved ’ places ) . |
| 4 | Mr Emig questioned whether the urine samples examined were those actually given ; whether certain people present at the doping test had the right to be there and why the transportation of the samples had taken so long — five days , including three days at Cologne airport . |
| 5 | But the bishops would not apologise for nor retract the letter , and Mr Tembo could not convince them that the Congress Party had the right to pass death sentences upon them . |
| 6 | This is not , of course , to say that an impecunious clerk or curate was of equal status with a great lay lord , duke or count , or that a simple peasant woman had the rights of a noble lady , for medieval society was a stratified , or hierarchical , one , in which power was conceived as coming downwards from God to His spiritual and temporal vice-gerents : popes , emperors , kings and bishops . |