Example sentences of "the [noun sg] rights [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might be appropriate to give the European Parliament rights of confirmation for Commissioners , and it could be worth considering giving the Parliament rights of recall of Commissioners as well . |
| 2 | After making findings of fact which are broadly summarised in the second paragraph of this judgment the board determined , inter alia : ( 1 ) that the fees derived from the sub-licencing were sourced in the countries in which the sub-licensees were by their contracts entitled to exercise the particular rights and ( 2 ) that the 1981 agreement vested in the taxpayer rights over intangible property , which rights could only be exercised outside Hong Kong . |
| 3 | Even before the 1987 bill , local authorities had lost all influence over pay and conditions of teachers when the government took away the negotiating rights of the teachers ' unions and imposed a pay settlement . |
| 4 | In contrast , government Whigs can be found defending the prerogative rights of the Crown — notably vis-à-vis the Church in the Convocation controversy , but also on a number of other issues — and in so doing invoked a vision of England 's feudal past similar to that employed by Tories during the Exclusion Crisis . |
| 5 | General Francis said it so happened that he owned the fishing rights on a fairly respectable stretch of water . |
| 6 | The problems arise from a legal peculiarity where the towpath is owned by householders but the fishing rights by the NRA . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it is argued ( E. R. Dew , 56 Lqw Society 's Gazette 365 ) that the most likely ‘ other reason ’ for which an agreement might be void or unenforceable , apart from containing a provision against application to the court , would be precisely the want of consideration if the agreement be not under seal ; the legislature , it is urged on this view , would not have made inroads on the fundamental requirement of valuable consideration in a contract not under seal , by a provision purporting to deal with the maintenance rights of a wife . |
| 8 | Sir Emmanuel Hoyle owned the shooting rights in these parts . |
| 9 | Dr Proctor , already a wealthy man , has received an eight figure sum for the movie rights to his forthcoming autobiography What 's Cookin' , Doc ? , and director Kim Newman has already announced his intention to cast either Jeremy Irons or Steve Martin in the leading role . |
| 10 | Thus , while all three publishers will be publishing different novelisation titles based on the series , the publication rights for annuals and calendars ( which are more akin to merchandise than books ) went to BBC Enterprises . |
| 11 | The BBC subsequently bought the broadcasting rights to the play and commissioned David Whitaker to adapt it for Television . |
| 12 | He also provides clients with a list of local experts like solicitors and surveyors to prevent very localised property pitfalls — such as discovering that someone owns the mining rights under or beside your home , or that the Duchy of Cornwall has the title to the foreshore and your mooring , which can lop £100,000 off the house value . |
| 13 | A purchaser , ‘ not in good faith ’ ( i.e. one who is negligent or reckless in his belief about the ownership rights of the seller ) may nevertheless acquire full title after a lapse of twenty years . |
| 14 | An ambiguously worded provision , patently lacking adequate means of enforcement , may be too slender a ground on which to anticipate that the courts would sanction a derogation from the ownership rights of the shareholders , lying as they do at the foundation of the legal model of the company . |
| 15 | TVX , owned 40% each by Cellular and Automated Security Holdings Plc , here , holds the distribution rights for the TVX camera systems in North , Central and South America . |
| 16 | Coutts had been informed that a cheque for $6m was expected at any moment from MGM films in America — payment for the distribution rights of Electric Dreams . |
| 17 | My other question involves the distribution rights of shareware titles . |
| 18 | It was the responsibility of the Justices of the forest to see that the Forest rights of the Crown were not usurped , and for this purpose he made frequent use of sworn inquiries by the foresters and verderers and juries of knights and free men of the neighbourhood . |
| 19 | On 9 January 1227 Henry III declared himself to be of full age , and immediately began measures to reclaim the Forest rights of his crown . |
| 20 | But it was an English Household clerk who in 1244 persuaded his royal master that his financial difficulties would be solved by making rigorous inquiries into encroachments on the Forest rights of the Crown , and imposing heavy amercements on those who made them . |
| 21 | Passelewe rigorously investigated encroachments on the Forest rights of the Crown . |
| 22 | But Henry III had no intention of surrendering the Forest rights of the Crown : demands for reform made at the Councils of 1254 , 1256 and 1257 were fobbed off by royal promises which were never carried out . |
| 23 | Edward remained unwilling to surrender the Forest rights of his Crown . |
| 24 | When Edward III grasped the reins of government in November 1330 , he was as determined as any of his predecessors to vindicate the Forest rights of his Crown . |
| 25 | Cromwell obviously planned to bring the northern forests more closely under his control , and to ferret out encroachments upon the Forest rights of the Crown . |
| 26 | The Forest rights of the Crown should be sold to the landowners who owned the soil , or exchanged for an apportionment of land for enclosure and economic development . |
| 27 | Xerox bought the marketing rights to a product called Ventura earlier this year . |
| 28 | IBM Corp has sold the marketing rights for its CICS PD/MVS problem determination tool , for an undisclosed sum , back to Compuware Corp , the company that originally developed the system in 1989 . |
| 29 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 30 | The Articles will deal with the share rights of the various classes of share , the ratchet provisions and the terms upon which the preference shares become convertible . |