Example sentences of "right to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent MORI poll , commissioned by a group of unions , 89 per cent of those canvassed thought employees should have the right to be represented by a union . |
| 2 | We have a right to be represented in a women 's magazine that 's fighting for equal representation . |
| 3 | More than 100 porters who help carry the luggage of VIP passengers at Heathrow airport were sacked after going on strike demanding the right to be represented by a union . |
| 4 | Music , Karajan argued , has every right to be played as accurately and beautifully as Possible . |
| 5 | At the Annual General Meeting of the Lord Lieutenants ' Association — surely Britain 's most exclusive trade union — there is much discussion of such knotty questions as whether the pushy chairman of the local district council has , as he insists he has , the right to be presented to the Queen before the laid-back leader of the county council . |
| 6 | I have become convinced that our whole approach is hopelessly unscientific , in fact wrong , and particularly that my own reconstruction is so fundamentally flawed that we really do n't have the right to be displaying it anywhere except in a Disneyland type of amusement park . ’ |
| 7 | And do we not all have the same right to be saved ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The other irritant was the discovery by hundreds of English-speaking Quebeckers , who had courageously chosen to send their children to schools where the teaching is in French , that they had thereby deprived their grandchildren of the right to be taught in English if they wished . |
| 10 | It is a fact of life and a right to be defended . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | as almost all classes in Muslim society have been oppressed by the colonialists , all classes have the right to be called ‘ proletarians ’ … |
| 13 | As Bishop Thomas Brinton of Rochester said when preaching at the time of the Black Prince 's death in the summer of 1376 , it was part of a knight 's duty to help his king in time of war ; failure to do so meant loss of the right to be called a knight , which was both a sign of honour and a mark of responsibility which had to be lived up to . |
| 14 | One thing that the Opposition are certain about is that those who earn more than £20,000 have every right to be called upon to pay the extra 9 per cent . |
| 15 | If they had , they could view relief as a right to be called upon when necessary . |
| 16 | Homosexuals have as much right to be understood , to be treated with compassionate love as the rest of us . |
| 17 | She stood still , feeling scared , and then , when Hepzibah appeared at the top of the stairs , ashamed too , as if she had no right to be listening . |
| 18 | All viewers residing in areas which are cabled have a right to be connected free of charge to a service which provides them with a minimum of public channels , a local channel , an educational channel and a community channel with a studio which is available to citizens and associations . |
| 19 | This was to stake a large claim to moral originality , and it is a work that has earned the right to be revered and detested . |
| 20 | Because it was destroying her , these violent swings from high to low , the arousing of needs that had no right to be fulfilled . |
| 21 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Municipal Corporations Act 1835 specifically excluded all women from the local borough franchise , but single women continued to enjoy the vote and even the right to be elected in many parishes and important local bodies , such as the Poor Law Guardians , associated with them ( Hollis 1987 ) . |
| 24 | The question before the Court was whether the members had a discretion to take into account that the flags of convenience policies of these two countries negated an important interest in maritime safety , or whether the eight States with the largest registered tonnage of shipping had a treaty right to be elected . |
| 25 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 26 | The champions of England and Scotland , the ‘ auld enemy ’ , were fighting for the right to be acknowledged as champions of Britain . |
| 27 | These were that interrogation rooms in police holding centres should be monitored by silent , closed-circuit television and that a prisoner should be given the right to be visited by a solicitor every forty-eight hours until either released or charged . |
| 28 | The right to be visited by a solicitor after each forty-eight hours is also less satisfactory than might seem even if there were no question of the probable presence of a policeman . |
| 29 | It is the consideration for a separate supply which is taxable — unless the right to be exercised by the tenant is the making of an exempt supply , in which case the reimbursement will be exempt . |
| 30 | ‘ all babies have the right to be fed and cared for , except where there is an incurable deformity and where the baby would suffer pain and distress if feeding were attempted . ’ |