Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] right to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 2 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 3 | There are indeed good candidates from Africa , but none has a continental right to the inside track . |
| 4 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 5 | One ground for such a belief is that one has a legal right to some act or omission by another legal or natural person , although to define claims in terms of rights becomes circular : |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We have strength in depth and nobody has a God-given right to any position . ’ |
| 8 | The Bank of England now has a statutory right to information about a bank at any time . |
| 9 | ‘ Any defendant has a fundamental right to a fair trial . |
| 10 | When the light descends on the individual and the voice within speaks it has an equal right to be heard . |
| 11 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 12 | So the chapter on scepticism which occurs in part I has an equal right to be in part II . |
| 13 | Firstly , although every Australian has an equal right to be treated in a public hospital , the income that can be derived from treating a privately insured patient is greater than that for treating a public patient in the same facilities . |
| 14 | She should understand that every country in the world has an incontrovertible right to a ‘ fortress mentality ’ and every country has been historically allowed the right to keep its borders intact and protect its people from invasion by hostile forces . |
| 15 | While laws against personal assault probably fall into this category , it is clear that no one has an individual right to a particular defence policy . |
| 16 | In Morris ( Herbert ) Ltd v Saxelby [ 1916 ] 1 AC 688 , Lord Atkinson said " … no person has an abstract right to be protected against competition per se in his trade or business " . |
| 17 | First , the Act creates a statutory right to compensation for a fall in the value of property arising from the use of highways , aerodromes and other public works which have immunity from actions for ‘ nuisance ’ . |