Example sentences of "give [pron] the right [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have enforced questionable criteria , appealed to divine authority and given ourselves the right to make our own interpretation of it . |
| 2 | In these stories the young characters learn that their greater physical power does not give them the right to treat the little people as playthings or inferiors . |
| 3 | Fried rich , in Limited Government : A Comparison , p. 118 , states that such a response is ‘ motivated by the belief that such a constitution , if popularly approved , would give them the right to rule , over and above the mere power to do so ’ . |
| 4 | There is a danger that shrewd private landlords will go for short assured tenancies ( 4–5 years ) which would give them the right to get rid of tenants ( including those with dementia ) when the lease runs out . |
| 5 | ‘ Her Majesty is paying your bills now , not the State , but that does not give you the right to behave any way you like . ’ |
| 6 | That still does n't give you the right to treat me like a child , ’ Robyn persisted . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , even if they are , that does n't give you the right to poke your nose into my affairs ! ’ |
| 8 | Try reading it , try reading it some time because what it says to the people of is , if you do n't like the level of services being provided by your Council , if you feel your Council are not giving you value for money , then we 're gon na give you the right to complain about it and do something . |
| 9 | Your card does not give you the right to overdraw your account . |
| 10 | ‘ That does n't give you the right to dictate to me . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When you bullied me into this … charade , ’ she spat the words out , ‘ it did n't give you the right to boss me about . |
| 12 | Look , I appreciate the use of the bathroom , but that damn well does n't give you the right to stand there with that superior look on your face , lecturing me as if I were a child . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That does n't give you the right to make free with me whenever you choose . |
| 14 | Obviously you 're annoyed about that letter you received — but that does n't give you the right to vent your spleen on me . |
| 15 | Where tenure was for life only , and not by inheritance , where entry fines were not fixed by custom , it was possible for the lord , perfectly legally , to raise these to a level which a possible heir could not pay , not in the expectation of getting more money , but in the certainty that failure to pay would give him the right to evict . |
| 16 | Still , she thought as she closed the door of the trophy-room , it does n't give him the right to treat me like — She bit off the dreadful word that sprang to mind . |
| 17 | And because I was drunk and ca n't remember anything about my ordeal , does that give him the right to do what he did to me ? |
| 18 | Just because he was her boss , that did n't give him the right to organise her social life as well ! |
| 19 | Just because the guy can drop names we have all heard of and used to know Bruce McLaren does n't give him the right to bore us every week . |
| 20 | One night and morning did n't give her the right to confess her love when it might just be a burden to him . |
| 21 | The tenant having died , his daughter sought to rely on the provisions which would give her the right to succeed to the statutory tenancy . |
| 22 | What the right-wingers are saying is that we will have the trade unions ' money but we will not give 'em the right to vote . |
| 23 | The 1971 Act also effectively discriminated against black workers by the introduction of the concept of ‘ patrials ’ , which was intended to distinguish persons with close ties to Britain from those without and give them the right to reside in Britain . |
| 24 | I think in general by virtue of the fact that we go to great lengths to make sure that people fully understand exactly what they have got I mean we 're not in a in a situation where we want people to think that they 've got something they have n't , which is why we go to the lengths that we do erm to make sure that people are fully aware of what they 've got , and if they 're unhappy with what they 've got then obviously within the fourteen day period we give them the right to cancel . |
| 25 | The procedures give you the right to state your case before any decisions are taken . |
| 26 | But can the verification principle give him the right to do this , when those who take a different view from him feel entitled to claim that they are abiding by that principle ? |
| 27 | These give him the right to buy the metal at a fixed — and , as it happens , attractively low — price . |
| 28 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 29 | Consequently , there is no test I can perform , comparable to dissolving oxides in water , and so on , to give me the right to say something looks white . |
| 30 | Now I do n't think that 's right , fair or democratic and if we 've shied away from it for years handling this issue and now we 're in the position where this house has total responsibility for the thirty thousand citizens in total of Gibralt it 's not the electorate , the total population , thirty thousand and we continued to deny them vote yet they are citizens of the European union under our own legislation and accepted as such by the European parliament and it is wholly wrong Mr Deputy Speaker that the boundaries that we 're discussing in this bill were not drawn so that and it could easily have been done , that we could have incorporated the twenty odd thousand European union citizens of Gibraltar who do wish to be part of Spain and wo n't be for fifty years or more until it 's been a democracy that long , but to give them the right to vote . |