Example sentences of "has a [adj] right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether or not he does it , every person has a duty to God not to ‘ harm another in his life , … liberty , … or goods ’ , and so has a parallel right to defend himself against such attack . |
| 2 | Any party to proceedings therefore has a general right to see social work records in so far as they relate to him but not otherwise ( see Chapter 3 , 5 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | An accused is therefore not guilty of robbery if he believes that he has a legal right to deprive the victim of the property . |
| 5 | " Judges must decide such novel cases as best they can , but by hypothesis no party has any right to win flowing from past collective decisions — no party has a legal right to win — because the only rights of that character are those established by conventions . |
| 6 | No club has a divine right to win the League year in , year out as the Glens and Blues have done down through the years . |
| 7 | No-one has a divine right to play for England . ’ |
| 8 | Who has a better right to enquire as to the welfare of Richard of York than the lady Anne his wife ? ’ |
| 9 | This conclusion was based on the premises that ( 1 ) it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of a provision of Community law ; ( 2 ) article 30 was such a provision ; ( 3 ) if Wickes is right that section 47 of the Act of 1950 is incompatible with article 30 , it has a current right to open its stores for Sunday trading , and it is the duty of the national court to protect that right ; ( 4 ) in the absence of an undertaking in damages , Wickes will have been restrained from opening on Sundays , without any right to compensation ; ( 5 ) there is no need for this purpose to assess the strength of Wickes ' challenge to section 47 on the basis of article 30 , it being enough that the challenge is not without foundation : see [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 985 , 993 , per Dillon L.J. , and pp. 999–1000 , per Mann L.J . |
| 10 | He is speaking for a Government which has been in power so long that it believes it has a God-given right to govern and denies anyone the right to criticise . |
| 11 | ‘ Nobody has a God-given right to play for England but they all know that . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I come from a learners ' perspective , a needs ' perspective , and I do n't believe that anybody has a God-given right to make those programmes with all these resources without thinking about it that way . |
| 14 | It may be helpful to recall that the " beneficial owner " covenants imply : ( i ) Full power to conveythe vendor has a good right to convey the whole property and interest agreed to be conveyed . |
| 15 | This was abolished in 1972 and consequently the prosecution must now convince a more representative sample of the population that a publisher ought to be punished : a sample , moreover , which has a constitutional right to acquit irrespective of the letter of the law . |
| 16 | No one owns English , and no one has a natural right to tell other English speakers how to use it . |
| 17 | These are tenancies that are for a fixed period of one to five years , after which the landlord has a guaranteed right to repossess the property . |