Example sentences of "a [noun] have a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even a mistress has a right to understand her grief . ’ |
| 2 | A constable has a right to search for a weapon if he has reasonable grounds for believing that the suspect might present a danger to himself or others , for example because he was acting violently or was drunk or suicidal . |
| 3 | All that a child has a right to claim from his father is nourishment and education and the things nature furnishes for the support of life but he has no right to demand rule or dominion from him . |
| 4 | A cobbler has a right to retain mended shoes until they are paid for . |
| 5 | A claimant had a right of settlement in only one parish , originally in his or her father 's place of birth . |
| 6 | A person has a right of use and enjoyment of his or her property . |
| 7 | It is provided , however , that if a person has a right to place animals on unfenced land , he is not to be regarded as in breach of a duty of care by reason only of his placing them there , so long as the land is in an area where fencing is not customary or is common land or a town or village green . |
| 8 | By section 50B(1) , a lawful user ( being a person having a right under a licence or otherwise to use the program , s.50A(2) ) may decompile the program if necessary to obtain the information necessary to achieve the interoperability of any independently created program with the decompiled program or other program . |
| 9 | Moreover , under section 11 and section 37 , a person aggrieved by a demand has a right of appeal against it and proceedings can not be brought until any appeal has been finally determined . |
| 10 | They sat down at a low table in the corner , under a poster for the Campus Crèche and facing posters for the Pregnancy Advisory Service — ‘ A woman has a right to decide about her own body . |
| 11 | But you can argue that a woman has a right to the use that she makes of her own body . |
| 12 | After all , as he had said — and now every word of our conversation came back to me as clearly as if played back on a tape — a woman has a right to decide , on the basis of her own capacity to cope with the situation , whether she is justified in going on with it . |
| 13 | It 's very important you 're taught that , er such feelings as respect , love , emotions all come into this and a woman has a right to say no , if she does n't |
| 14 | A man has a right to take credit for past success and to attribute it to the real cause . |
| 15 | Mr. Newman has argued that the earlier decisions involved the application of prior restraints and exercise of the discretion of the court , whereas the issue of a writ in libel is the first step in an action which a party has a right to take and consequently is outside the principles enunciated in those cases . |
| 16 | Whereas an objector has a right of appeal to the Transport Tribunal against an unfavourable decision of a licensing authority , the local resident has no such right of appeal . |
| 17 | Rollin writes : ‘ An animal has a right to the kind of life that its nature dictates … . |