Example sentences of "[noun pl] were [verb] the right " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , religious organizations were given the right to set up their own schools . |
| 2 | The new measures provided for ( i ) the lifting of the 150-mile exclusion zone around the Falkland Islands and its replacement on March 31 , 1990 , by mutually agreed security arrangements ( backed up by a direct radio " hotline " between the commander of the Falklands garrison and Argentina 's military high command ) giving each country advance warning of the military manoeuvres of the other , and allowing Argentinian warships and aircraft to come within 50 miles and 70 miles respectively of the Falklands without prior permission ; ( ii ) co-operation on air and sea rescue , safety procedures and air and maritime navigation ; ( iii ) an investment promotion and protection pact to encourage investment in the Falklands , and negotiations on possible Anglo-Argentinian investment promotion and protection agreements ; ( iv ) shared information on fishing in the South Atlantic , although a 150-mile conservation zone around the Falklands would be maintained , within which Argentinian vessels were denied the right to fish [ see p. 37001 ] ; ( v ) a working group on South Atlantic affairs and arrangements for further talks to improve contacts between the mainland and the Falklands ; ( vi ) visits by Argentinian relatives to Falkland war graves by arrangement with the International Red Cross ; ( vii ) co-operation on environmental protection ; and ( viii ) co-operation against drug trafficking . |
| 3 | In an agreement signed with Amazonian gold prospectors on Jan. 9 , 1990 , under the auspices of the National Security Council , miners were granted the right to continue prospecting in three areas totalling about 686 sq km , and at the same time the reduction of the size of the Yanomami Indian reservation to 19 separate " islands " of forest was confirmed . |
| 4 | Bishops and barons were to have the right to take one or two deer when passing through the royal forest . |
| 5 | Sentences for assisting " separatist terrorists " were to be doubled , while local officials were given the right to ban strikes and shop-closing protests . |
| 6 | In a further attempt to restrict the role of local authorities in housing , council house tenants were given the right to switch to an alternative landlord — either in the form of a housing association or an approved private sector landlord — in other words , they were allowed to opt out of local authority control . |
| 7 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 8 | All governors were to have the right to recommend patients to the infirmary in proportion to their subscriptions . |
| 9 | In spite of its violent assaults on the female image , Surrealism 's emphatic anti-academicism and dedication to an art of the interior struck a sympathetic chord in a repressive era when women were demanding the right to work and vote . |
| 10 | The funding councils were given the right to advise the Secretary of State . |