Example sentences of "have a [adj] right [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a government exercises some ‘ power without right , ’ it seems to be necessarily implied that the people have a corresponding right to resist . |
| 2 | Most Scots believe they have a moral right to walk in wild places provided they are causing no harm and behave appropriately . |
| 3 | But why , and the people of this district have a legitimate right to ask , why did it take three people to represent in Czechoslovakia ? |
| 4 | The UN Declaration of Human Rights states : ‘ Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children . ’ |
| 5 | Should you find , on receipt of your policy , that it fails to meet your requirements in any way , you have a legal right to cancel it within 14 days without payment . |
| 6 | The Act provided no definition of a ‘ public place ’ , but it refers to any place to which the public have access , irrespective of whether or not they have a legal right to go there , even when there are particular and restricted rules of entry . |
| 7 | As a copyright owner you have a legal right to prevent unauthorised copying of your work and as a practising artist you need to be aware of what you can and can not do with regard to using ‘ second-source ’ material as ideas for your own work . |
| 8 | → When you buy goods or equipment you have a legal right to expect them to comply with any description applied : leather not plastic , solid wood and not veneer , or in this case a ‘ 67 and not a 1974 model . |
| 9 | They have a perfect right to object to it . |
| 10 | It is difficult to relax with them , and even with each other , under such circumstances , perhaps especially in those ‘ social ’ events where we have a perfect right to do so , events which we ourselves have organized . |
| 11 | Hermione Lee is admirably judicious about all this , pointing out both that we have a perfect right to say things about a writer that we would not have said in their lifetime , and that ‘ to account for Cather 's fiction by reading it as an encoding of covert , even guilty sexuality is , I think , both patronising and narrow . ’ |
| 12 | We have a perfect right to use such areas in the responsible pursuit of our hobby , yet this right is often denied to us , usually by manipulative application of bye- laws . |
| 13 | ‘ And anyway , I 'm not criticising you ; you have a perfect right to have as many women here as you want to . ’ |
| 14 | The idealism which inspired this Act of Parliament was eloquently expressed in the House of Commons by Alfred Morris , MP for Manchester , Wythenshawe who had originally introduced this measure as a Private Member 's Bill : If we could bequeath one precious gift to posterity , I would choose a society in which there is genuine compassion for the chronically sick and disabled ; where understanding is unostentatious and sincere ; where needs come before means ; where if years can not be added to their lives , at least life can be added to their years ; … where the disabled have a fundamental right to participate in industry and society according to ability ; where socially preventable distress is unknown ; and where none has cause to be ill at ease because of disability . |
| 15 | The ‘ higher law ’ may also be formulated as a temporal limit — should the present generation have the power to bind , or even dispose of , future generations , or do these future generations have a fundamental right to live and structure their own lives ? |
| 16 | Arguing along these lines , Hessen asserts that ‘ men have a natural right to form a corporation by contract for their own benefit , welfare , and mutual self-interest ’ . |
| 17 | It informs them that others in society are more important and have a natural right to fill certain positions . |
| 18 | I will observe , Chairman , that there are reasonable and honourable and relatively well meaning people who truly believe that they have a natural right to hunt down foxes with dogs indeed to call the dogs hounds and believe that nobody has the right to interfere with their pleasures er , i in press they would no doubt speak of the right of free born Englishmen to do what they like but I 'd like them to consider Chairman , views of what it is right and proper for human beings to do have changed , as readers of John 's diaries will recall , barely three hundred years ago , he saw a woman being burned to death er in London for murdering her husband and people watched and no doubt thought that it was the right of free born Englishmen to enjoy the spectacle . |
| 19 | Therefore , a system was introduced which enabled regiments to appoint honorary colonels of their own choosing so that they could speak on their behalf and as a last resort have a direct right to apply to the sovereign in order to make representations on behalf of their unit . |
| 20 | The belief here is that people have a basic right to control their own destinies and that , if they are allowed to participate in the analysis and design of the system that they will be using , then the implementation , acceptance and operation of the systems are more likely to be successful . |
| 21 | ( 1 ) The defendants have a contractual right to retain out of the mortgage funds in hand their costs , charges and expenses , including the receivers ' remuneration , on an indemnity basis . |
| 22 | If you have a contractual right to commission or a bonus , you are entitled to be compensated for what you have lost as a result of a wrongful dismissal . |
| 23 | It includes invitees and licensees and those who have a contractual right to enter , where there is no express contractual duty of care ( s. 5(1) ) . |
| 24 | The legislation ensures that people have a statutory right to pay the community charge in manageable instalments . |
| 25 | This means that all people over pension age who are not in full-rime work have a statutory right to have their income brought up to a guaranteed weekly level . |