Example sentences of "[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 | Alida has a right to some freedom , she herself is … |
| 4 | The study investigated children in care whose social workers wanted to find homes with substitute families for them , taking as two basic assumptions that every child has a right to a family of his [ or her ] own , and that adoption and fostering are not completely separate categories but have a considerable area of overlap . |
| 5 | Shearer also sees the centre as ‘ working towards our own version of the Children 's Charter — every child has a right to be able to breathe properly . |
| 6 | Every child has a right to the best education and every parent should be confident that their child gets the best start in life . |
| 7 | Regarding the involvement of others , besides teachers , we are unlikely to have a Swedish style debate in Parliament , despite the fact that the community has a right to it , and that curricular decision-making is a political act . |
| 8 | A captive giraffe has a right to a cage in which it can stand straight up … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris . |
| 11 | But you can argue that a woman has a right to the use that she makes of her own body . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I 'm luckier than any man has a right to be . ’ |
| 14 | We consider that a child in care has a right to at least as good an education as any other child . |
| 15 | Surely , however , the public has a right to forward well intentioned concerns ? |
| 16 | If we reclassify companies as social enterprises such issues are then not only matters of legitimate public concern about which the public has a right to information , but also matters in which the state is entitled to intervene in order to safeguard the public interest and to ensure compliance with publicly acceptable ethical standards . |
| 17 | 3 Every resident has a right to be independent |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He must decide , for example , whether it actually follows from the assumed convention of legislation that Elmer has a right to his inheritance because of the statute of wills , or from the putative convention of precedent that Mrs. McLoughlin had a right to compensation because of past judicial decisions . |
| 21 | Rollin writes : ‘ An animal has a right to the kind of life that its nature dictates … . |