Example sentences of "a right to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 5 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 6 | As police , he went on , ‘ we sometimes quite wrongly assume the monopoly of good ideas on good community relations and good policing … the public have a right to be actively involved in determining how policing is developed ’ . |
| 7 | Mr Kinnock had already stated that secondary picketing would again become ‘ a right to be enjoyed ’ . |
| 8 | You have a right to be nervous . |
| 9 | Here is another sense in which the child is not ‘ object ’ but ‘ person ’ , with a right to be heard , without an accompanying and inappropriate responsibility to decide . |
| 10 | In addition , mentally handicapped people have a right to expect people to understand them and accept them within the society of which they are a part ; a right to be born and a right to live . |
| 11 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 12 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 13 | He was loud and self-confident , but he had a right to be : he had a knack for picking winners . |
| 14 | I have a right to be annoyed , but let's keep the lid on . |
| 15 | We have a right to be happy . ’ |
| 16 | 3 Every resident has a right to be independent |
| 17 | And this is one of the reasons for a fundamental element in the Benedictine tradition : the independence of each abbey from every other : an independence only mitigated in early days by the right of the bishop to visit — where the monastery had not asserted a right to be exempt from the bishop — and , from the thirteenth century on , by the formation of congregations of houses to establish some kind of common action , control and system of visitation . |
| 18 | It is a fact of life and a right to be defended . |
| 19 | I 'm luckier than any man has a right to be . ’ |
| 20 | a right to be informed and consulted about any management proposal likely to have serious consequences for the interests of employees . |
| 21 | I should prefer the headland without it but it 's beginning to look as if it had a right to be there . ’ |
| 22 | They have a right to be themselves . ’ |
| 23 | If someone stupidly backs into my car because they were chatting away to their passenger , I have a right to be cross . |
| 24 | Of course it 's only a rummage-search , but as far as we 've gone , there 's nothing in that boat at all that has n't a right to be there . ’ |
| 25 | It was not a right to be enjoyed as a source of revenue or worldly glory : it was to be guarded as a gift from the past , representing an eternal principle of order . |
| 26 | This is a good argument as it stands but one can well imagine that it would have been pressed in terms of these hopefuls having a right to be paid if they succeeded . |
| 27 | Thirdly , human imbeciles will usually have relations or medical custodians deeply concerned for their welfare whose wishes have a right to be heard . |
| 28 | Most landowners do realise that people have a right to be there and the best PR for them is to ensure the rights of way are clear and enjoyable — landowners need public support . |
| 29 | ‘ They should make it clear that corporal punishment is outmoded and that children have a right to be brought up in their own religion . |
| 30 | I 've learnt I 'm a person in my own right , not just someone 's wife or mother and I have a right to be here and a right to pursue a career or studies . |