Example sentences of "right [to-vb] [noun pl] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , however genuine the prospects of trade with the South Seas might have seemed , especially when enhanced by the right to sell slaves to the Spanish colonies granted at the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713 , it is clear that so hugely capitalised a new incorporation was also intending to contest with the " big two " — the Bank of England and the East India Company — for the profits which came from dealing in the national debt . |
| 2 | Under the Treaty of Rome its powers were defined as the supervision of both the Commission and the Council of Ministers , including the right to put questions to the Commission and to discuss the latter 's annual report , to discharge the annual budget , and to censure the Commission . |
| 3 | SIR Richard Attenborough , the chairman of Channel 4 , yesterday warned he would resign if the Government insisted on a right to veto appointments to the new body which will run the channel . |
| 4 | For all types of schools the headteacher has the right to append comments to the final report ( Craddock , 1979 ) . |
| 5 | A second would give patients a guaranteed right of access to the hospital of their choice , and general practitioners a right to refer patients to the consultant of their choice . |
| 6 | A mortgagee is not , in our judgment , to be deprived of a contractual or equitable right to add costs to the security merely by reason of an order for payment of costs made without reference to the mortgagee 's contractual or equitable rights and without any adjudication as to whether or not the mortgagee should be deprived of those costs . |
| 7 | All governors were to have the right to recommend patients to the infirmary in proportion to their subscriptions . |
| 8 | A new right may be a right to make alterations to the building or sub-let it or ( perhaps on payment of a penalty ) to terminate the lease . |
| 9 | Zemstva could raise taxes and had the right to make representations to the central government . |
| 10 | They say they paid premium prices to a firm with exclusive rights to sell holidays to the Olympics , but in return were given appalling accomodation . |