Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] a right to " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the absence of clear evidence of this nature , the court is likely to infer that the squatter neither had had nor had claimed any intention of asserting a right to the possession of the land … |
| 2 | This certainly means that Adam 's heirs can not be alone in having a right to private property , but in saying this , it does not explain how such a right arises in the first place . |
| 3 | The business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
| 4 | This business of compulsion is not something theoretical or peripheral ; it is of the essence of a right , because there is no point in declaring a right to what everyone is going to have anyhow . |
| 5 | Even so , the judges are hampered by the thought that they must not run counter to political trends , for example by implying a right to full compensation for the appropriation of property when a socialist legislature did not in terms provide for such compensation . |
| 6 | To add insult to injury members should be aware that the Banks are now attempting to re-write the settlement proposals of the dispute last year by claiming a right to earlier opening . |