Example sentences of "[vb -s] a right " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result of the ‘ legal ’ relationships involved between LEA , governing body and headteacher , the head reserves a right of veto over management-board decisions . |
| 2 | Section 19 provides that , if the seller reserves a right of disposal of the goods until certain conditions are fulfilled , property does not pass until those conditions are fulfilled . |
| 3 | But when all this is fully recognised yet the law , in some circumstances , reserves a right to say that a contract is in restraint of trade and that to be enforceable it must pass a test of reasonableness . |
| 4 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 5 | Everyone has a right to first-rate care and everyone has the right to complain if they 're not satisfied . |
| 6 | Everyone has a right to be buried in the churchyard of the parish in which they die — assuming that one exists , and that there is space left . |
| 7 | NICO , PATTI SMITH , The Stooges , Jonathan Richman , La Monte Young , John Cage , Nick Drake , Eno , Squeeze , Happy Mondays — John Cale 's CV is studded with the most intriguing of collaborations ; he has traversed more ground and confused more expectations than the average musician has a right to . |
| 8 | Article 25 ( 1 ) of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights , subscribed by the United Kingdom in December 1948 , runs as follows : ‘ Everyone has a right to a standard of living adequate for the health and wellbeing of himself and of his family , including medical care. , |
| 9 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 10 | Every family needs , and has a right to , a place to live in : no one needs a second home , except perhaps MPs . |
| 11 | The land someone cultivates is necessarily his : this is simply a special case of the fact that each man unquestionably has a right to his own life and labour , and so has the right to the products of that labour . |
| 12 | Under this Act a child born alive , but suffering from a physical or mental defect as a result of something which happened before its birth , has a right of action for damages if the defendant would also have been liable in tort for what occurred to the parent if sued in time . |
| 13 | A man must divorce his wife if he can not get on with her ; she has a right to petition for divorce if he refuses to have sex with her . |
| 14 | Alida has a right to some freedom , she herself is … |
| 15 | It turns out that the public has a right to know only what those who control the media think is good for them . |
| 16 | Surely , however , the public has a right to forward well intentioned concerns ? |
| 17 | The one who has a right to dispose of it is the one who has created it . |
| 18 | We will ensure that every employee has a right to participate in decision-making in their enterprise . |
| 19 | Rather , the data user , the school or educational authority , has a right to disclose to any registered disclosee though not to anyone else . |
| 20 | Any council member has a right to inspect any document held by or under control of the authority and relevant to any business to be transacted in council , committee or sub-committee . |
| 21 | The view of the British Medical Association is that as every patient has a right to refuse medical treatment , it is reasonable for parents to decide for babies . |
| 22 | One is tempted to say that consent is valid if one has a right that the normative consequences will not occur without one 's consent . |
| 23 | ‘ THIS CITY DOES NOT BELONG TO A PEOPLE , but to peoples … the human race has a right to Paris . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Particularly note if anyone else has a right over your land in respect of paths , drives , drains , mains services , mining for minerals , use of streams or beds of streams etc , and note whether your external drains and mains services cross anyone else 's land . |
| 26 | However , no sensible caddie has a right to start pulling out clubs until their boss says so . |
| 27 | Society of New York Hospital , held that ‘ every human being of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what shall be done with his own body . ’ |
| 28 | The nub of informed consent , they say , is that every human of adult years and sound mind has a right to determine what will be done with his body , and they trace the history of informed consent citing the Nuremberg Code ( 1949 ) and the Declaration of Helsinki ( 1964 , amended 1983 ) , which in the aftermath of war atrocities , attempted to ensure the principle of informed consent . |
| 29 | Whatever one may argue for the value of research findings which ensue from this technique ( and certainly the publication of Down and Out must have come as a revelation to many people in present-day Britain ) the question must be squarely faced as to whether the social researcher has a right to deceive and manipulate people for research purposes . |
| 30 | In fact , however , any participant in a meeting or discussion has a right to offer a summary to test that their understanding accords with everyone else 's . |