Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] a right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever date one ascribes to the letter , Remigius conceived of Childeric 's power in terms of Roman provincial rule , and he also thought that the clergy had a right to advise , even though the ruler might be barbarian and pagan . |
| 2 | Other principles accepted by the declaration were : i ) that the polluter should pay for the cost of the clean-up ; ii ) that environmental damage should be guarded against even if there were no apparent scientific reasons for doing so — the " precautionary principle " ; iii ) that women have " a vital role in environmental management and development " ; and iv ) that , while nations have a right to exploit their own resources , they must not damage the environments of other states . |
| 3 | Drinkers have a right to know whether the beer they are drinking is a genuine barley malt product or whether it is stuffed full of such tasty ingredients as corn syrup , propylene glycol alginate , amyloglucosidase , papain enzymes and potassium metabisulphite . |
| 4 | Should parents have a right to determine how schools were run ? |
| 5 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 6 | So decisions as to venue for trial constitute another important set of pre-trial decisions for which responsibility rests largely with magistrates ( though defendants have a right to elect for trial in the Crown Court , even if the magistrates would be prepared to accept jurisdiction ) . |
| 7 | erm not only that , but erm whereas in the past it 's tended to be at the prerogative of the education people , as it were , the teachers and the heads and the educational psychologists , to make the initial moves in categorization or making a statement , now the parents have a right to ask for an assessment , so perhaps in your case to your question it would have been yes , you could have in fact have erm initiated the moves . |
| 8 | I certainly assure the right hon. Gentleman that there is no sense in which the Government want positively to discriminate in favour of one type of schooling over others , because parents have a right to choose . |
| 9 | Parents have a right to appeal to the Secretary of State when the LEA has decided , following the assessment , that it is not required to determine the special educational provision that should be made . |
| 10 | and interested parents have a right to know what this initiative actually means . |
| 11 | More generally the evidence of the study of middle-class kinship by Firth , Hubert and Forge indicates that most people acknowledge that parents have a right to make demands upon their adult children , and that most children will do their best to meet those demands ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , pp. 406–7 ) . |
| 12 | David Beskine of the RA said ‘ This is not private land but open moorland over which the public has for many years had a right to roam . |
| 13 | The equal opportunities/human rights lobby believes that people with special needs have a right to participate fully at all levels of education on a par with their peers who do not have special needs . |
| 14 | We can not ask him , because he is not here , but it is an important question , to which his constituents have a right to know his answer . |
| 15 | In addition , the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice in ‘ Francovich ’ has established that individuals have a right to claim damages from member states who fail to properly implement Community law . |
| 16 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 17 | Suppose farmers have a right to stop the sparks . |
| 18 | Firms have a right to charge what the market will bear — as long as it is a competitive market . |
| 19 | Yet taxpayers have a right to know how their money is spent , in farming as in any other public activity . |
| 20 | All viewers have a right to inspect audience surveys , especially regarding the methodology and techniques used . |
| 21 | Viewers have a right to expect serious events , serious issues , serious journalism to be tackled at length in primetime — and that is what the BBC is committed to doing . |
| 22 | Do prisoners have a right to complain about bad conditions or is their predicament a symptom of a wider social problem ? |
| 23 | Do mothers have a right to select the sex of their babies ? |
| 24 | By the law of Parliament , bishops had a right to sit . |
| 25 | Do n't poor children have a right to live and grow-up as anyone else ? |
| 26 | Our children have a right to know why we have Christmas and Easter , crosses on war memorials and a coronation service ; why the centre of every English village is a parish church ; and why English literature resonates with Biblical imagery . |
| 27 | Parents of children have a right to request a reassessment of their children ; the LEA must comply unless to do so would be ‘ unreasonable ’ ( in the case of children who are not statemented ) or ‘ inappropriate ’ and there has been no assessment in the previous six months ( in the case of statemented children ) . |
| 28 | However , the panel ruled that the protestors have a right to speak to and harass the women who come to the clinics to obtain abortions . |
| 29 | The women deserve a right to have a proper training , not a watered down version . |
| 30 | The colonies had at first been left to look after themselves because the king had no money to spare for defending them nor any forces he could send across the Atlantic , but after 1650 it was accepted that the colonies had a right to expect to be protected against European attack , though not against Indian or other local problems . |