Example sentences of "rights [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | These amount to the rights of others over the owner 's land . |
| 2 | Although the United Kingdom has no written constitution , it is a constitutional convention of the highest importance that the legislature and the judicature are separate and independent of one another , subject to certain ultimate rights of Parliament over the judicature which are immaterial for present purposes . |
| 3 | While a broad historical trend was noted towards the limitation of the once near-absolute rights of parents over children by state agencies , with the declared objective of protecting the child 's interests and welfare , it seemed that in recent policies a number of different themes could be identified , involving potentially conflicting values and assumptions about children , parents , the state and the rights and roles of different parties in the child care situation . |
| 4 | The obtaining of access and maintenance of rights of way over Pennine moorlands , particularly in the Peak District , was fundamental to their activities . |
| 5 | The usual legal connotations of ownership are therefore irrelevant , but the possession of information , or the ability to control it , may nevertheless be of great significance ; in an entirely trivial sense the paper or computer tape on which information is recorded can be owned , and while this does not confer rights of ownership over the information itself , this distinction may seem empty if what really matters is control of access to and use of information . |
| 6 | It is not , however , necessary that the defendant should assert rights of ownership over the goods : taking for the purposes of acquiring a lien or of temporary use have been held to be conversion . |
| 7 | Although he could see no more than the man 's black outline , he sensed it was a rival he was moving towards , one who saw himself as having rights in the moor , even rights of possession over it . |
| 8 | These rights of control over one 's own possessions are valued rights — we would not want our shirt to be stolen , torn , or dyed by someone else — but this all-embracing idea of ‘ property rights ’ conceals a crucial difference between different forms of property . |
| 9 | Similarly , ultimate rights of control over the company are legally vested in the shareholders , giving them , at least in theory , the ability to shape the company 's purposes for their own ends . |
| 10 | The weakness of shareholder control results , in short , from the ‘ logic of collective action ’ : while the shareholders as a group would benefit if their rights of control over management were exercised , it is rational for the members individually to remain passive . |
| 11 | This is reproduced below in full because the work on the INSET project relied on the contract as a guarantee of teacher 's rights of control over their material . |
| 12 | Descended from the Carolingian counts and vicomtes , they possessed and exercised very ancient rights of jurisdiction over their lordships . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it is good practice to grant the tenant express rights of access over the common parts of the building . |
| 14 | Before capitalism , the worker had rights of use over some land , and had enough tools to grow some food and have some produce left to barter for other goods . |