Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I have a right to pursue the person who drops litter , using its return as an excuse for expressing my anger ? |
| 2 | I claim a right to live on my land , and accord you the privilege to live on yours . |
| 3 | I think I would be a very different person now if orange juice and milk and dinners at school had n't told me , in a covert way , that I had a right to exist , was worth something . |
| 4 | I had a right to know , a right ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ He 's my boy — I 've a right to know what 's become of him ! ’ |
| 6 | I think I 've a right to know why . ’ |
| 7 | That means that I have a right to access to your house . |
| 8 | You know , you 're sort of turning the abortion argument on it 's head , that er in an abortion you can say it 's my body , I have a right to decide , and this baby that dies is never going to be there to question that decision , but in this type of situation the baby 's going to be there and okay , you 'll get so many who will just accept their situation and wo n't question it , but you 're always going to get some , or even one who will say I want to know my origins , I want to why I was conceived this way , why I was born this way , why , I have two mothers , that maybe a surrogate mother and a natural mother ? |
| 9 | Erm as a private individual I have a right to inherit my father 's house when he dies . |
| 10 | I have a right to say no . |
| 11 | The spirit of the age is , ‘ I have needs and I have a right to have my needs met ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I have a right to protect my wife and family , ’ he said in a blustering way . |
| 13 | I have a right to know what goes on behind my back . ’ |
| 14 | But paradoxically the public right-to-know argument , which may be a pure power argument for involvement in decision making or an argument just to know what has been decided ( and why ) , may conflict fundamentally with the individual right to know argument which may say , ‘ I have a right to know information and decisions about me and to prevent anyone else from knowing ’ — the confidentiality argument ( or one of them ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Surely I have a right to know that at least ? ’ |
| 16 | She has a right to do what she chooses with her time , and interference often makes matters worse . |
| 17 | A man must divorce his wife if he can not get on with her ; she has a right to petition for divorce if he refuses to have sex with her . |
| 18 | ‘ She has a right to know , before anybody else tells her . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ She is Ma 's daughter , after all , Carrie , and she has a right to know , ’ Julia said . |
| 20 | The country of Boaz becomes her country , she is no longer a foreigner here now she has a right to stay because of Boaz And we are citizens of a new country , of a new kingdom . |
| 21 | Roughly , unilateralism provides that the plaintiff must win if he or she has a right to win established in the explicit extension of some legal convention , but that otherwise the defendant must win . |
| 22 | He even suggests that a threat to deprive a woman of something she has a right to expect should not necessarily be sufficient . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've a right to expect better of the Church than that , ’ said Mrs Yaxlee self-righteously . |
| 24 | But in that case if you 're going to have that , then you 've a right to have two lines in the house |
| 25 | She felt she was intruding ; but he was , after all , her brother and she had a right to intrude on him . |
| 26 | A campaign begun in 1971 to repeal the ban dating from 1935 culminated in the famous appeal of Mrs McGee to the Supreme Court to declare she had a right to use contraceptives . |
| 27 | She had a right to ask him . |
| 28 | As for Sparta , perhaps her first vote was merely a warning shot , and her second was for peace ; she was publicizing her own resolve to abide scrupulously by the terms of the Thirty Years Peace : Samos was ‘ possessed ’ by Athens in 446 and so she had a right to keep it . |
| 29 | What I did n't realise was that she then felt she had a right to run my life . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ She had been so brave and she had a right to know , to set her life in order just like anyone facing death . ’ |