Example sentences of "[vb -s] a right to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It too , in a sense , is a potential person but it would seem the act of a fanatic to insist that it has a right to life . |
| 2 | He may defend himself against attack , for example , cos he has a right to life and he may also defend his neighbours against attack . |
| 3 | Since everyone has a right to treatment whether they have been contributors or not , it is difficult to justify . |
| 4 | ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris . |
| 5 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 6 | If he does , he loses his right to reject the goods but still has a right to damages , section 11(4) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No convention decides either that Mrs. McLoughlin has a right to compensation for her emotional injury or that Mr. O'Brian has a right not to be made to pay it . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This expectation has rather been confirmed than otherwise by the superimposition in the last two years of an element of graduation in the contribution , the additional yield of which for many years to come will mainly help to finance the standard pension but which creates a right to additions to it which will gradually build up over the next forty years on an actuarial basis . |