Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] have a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if people have a right to their possessions , what makes them theirs ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 6 | The question of whether society has a right to take a life for a life is one guaranteed to raise heated debate . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The Magistrates ' Court is an inferior court and solicitors as well as barristers have a right of audience . |