Example sentences of "he has a [adj] right " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 2 | Alright , so his friends call him ‘ Borrie ’ and he believes he has a God-given right to opine on any subject and be published , or to criticise any work and be broadcast . |
| 3 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 4 | By s.2(1) the accused is not dishonest if he : ( a ) believes he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property ; ( b ) believes that the victim would have consented to the appropriation of the property , if he had known of the circumstances ; ( c ) finds property , when the owner can not reasonably be found . |
| 5 | An accused is therefore not guilty of robbery if he believes that he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property . |
| 6 | 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 . |