Example sentences of "[adj] right [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is likely that innocent partners have the implied right to be indemnified by the tortfeasor in respect of any liability which attaches to them under this section , though this would be subject to any express agreement to the contrary . |
| 2 | This was held not to create a public right to be enjoyed by all Her Majesty 's citizens . |
| 3 | He accused the Supreme Council of allowing citizens ' political and social rights to be flouted , and of using " slogans of democracy as a cover for a policy aimed at restoring a bourgeois system " . |
| 4 | The nice beer-bellied English gentleman with the Union Jack T-shirt and shorts , a can of lager in one hand and a cigarette in the other , has just as much right to be there as you do . |
| 5 | The wildlife that we so carelessly destroy has as much right to be on the planet as us and should be respected — we still have much to learn about them . |
| 6 | They had as much right to be there as I , and I was in no position to judge what benefits they were deriving from their experiences , beyond a developed attraction towards pyromania . |
| 7 | Homosexuals have as much right to be understood , to be treated with compassionate love as the rest of us . |
| 8 | ‘ For heaven 's sake , ’ cried Babs , ‘ you 've as much right to be here as we have . ’ |
| 9 | You hardly had room enough to do your job , but you dare n't tell 'em to get out o' the way ; or else they 'd say they 'd as much right to be there as you had ! |
| 10 | He had as much right to be out walking as I had . ’ |
| 11 | After all , it is hardly a shocking suggestion any more to propose that dialects and slangs have as much right to be " English " as the official or received version ( again , Derrida comes to mind here . ) |
| 12 | ‘ You have as much right to be here as anyone . |
| 13 | I 'm sure you have as much right to be here as anyone . ’ |
| 14 | We 've as much right to be here as they have . |
| 15 | Thus could a parent make a fairly reasonable answer which would acknowledge that the child is not silly , and has a perfect right to be treated in an adult way when he asks a serious question . |
| 16 | I have no real right to be here . |
| 17 | Some , for example , would argue that if the well -established indigenous white population are taught in their mother tongue , English , those originating from the New Commonwealth deserve a similar right to be taught in their mother tongue — Urdu , Punjabi , Bengali and so on . |
| 18 | We 'll be discussing it this afternoon and Labour members told us and no doubt they 'll tell us again that the users of the centre have a democratic right to be consulted about how it was run Do n't tenant farmers have the right to be consulted ? |
| 19 | STRICTLY speaking , Greg Norman has little right to be in the Masters , which begins at Augusta National today . |
| 20 | Even here , however , status still reared its head , for Louis XIV clearly thought it derogated from his dignity as a ruler by divine right to be referred to in the final treaty in the same terms as William III , the mere constitutional king of a parliamentary state . |
| 21 | A person buying or leasing land had no previous right to be there at all , let alone to trade there , and when he takes possession of that land subject to a negative restrictive covenant he gives up no right or freedom which he previously had . |
| 22 | They challenged the Home Secretary 's 1983 policies which effectively abolished parole for certain categories of prisoners , but did win the right , with the assistance of the European Commission for Human Rights to be legally represented at prison disciplinary hearings . |
| 23 | The boards have extensive rights to be informed and consulted about their schools ' educational , disciplinary and financial policies and achievements , and to participate in the appointment of senior staff . |
| 24 | In a constitutional democracy , there are individuals whose status or office gives them the automatic right to be heard . |
| 25 | The Royal Commission on Justice has recommended changes to include curtailing a defendant 's automatic right to be tried by jury and setting up a new appeals procedure . |
| 26 | The 1980s legislation also gave parents the legal right to be informed about , and be involved in , certain aspects of school life . |
| 27 | And you have a good right to be … because … ’ |
| 28 | When the light descends on the individual and the voice within speaks it has an equal right to be heard . |
| 29 | A democratic society was one in which the mass of the people played an active rather than a passive role , and in which the old traditions of deference and subordination had been replaced by a sense of equality among the people — the feeling that one man , or even one person , is as good as another , or at least has an equal right to be respected and listened to . |
| 30 | So the chapter on scepticism which occurs in part I has an equal right to be in part II . |