Example sentences of "a [adv] not to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Individuals have a right not to be touched if they do not wish to be touched , since the body is private . |
| 2 | As indicated earlier , employees have a right not to be unfairly dismissed by their employer . |
| 3 | Clause 21 gives strengthened dismissal rights to pregnant women by substituting a new s 60 in the EP(C)A 1978 under which , regardless of their length of service , all women employees have a right not to be dismissed on grounds of pregnancy or childbirth . |
| 4 | Children and young people have a right not to be mistreated , and are entitled to expect that adults will intervene to help them if they are being abused or neglected . |
| 5 | And children facing troubles have a right not to be subjected to the ‘ system abuse ’ that may arise because of clumsy or inadequate professional intervention which — however well intentioned — can make them feel even more vulnerable , manipulated or ‘ kept in the dark ’ . |
| 6 | On the other hand , there were those feminists represented by Josephine Butler who believed that prostitution was evil because it destroyed human dignity but who also believed the prostitute had a right not to be harassed , and if she was an adult she even had a right to choose to become a prostitute . |
| 7 | Reductivist theory ( at least in its utilitarian form ) has always found it difficult to encompass the notion of rights , even when it comes to providing entirely innocent people with a right not to be punished . |
| 8 | We 've a right to govern our own country , and we 've a right not to be told by other countries that we should be split into two , that we 're two different nations because they decided to split us down the middle . |
| 9 | 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 . |