Example sentences of "right [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baudelaire argued for modernity , but he also strongly believed that a critic has the right to be partisan . |
| 2 | The critic , too , according to Baudelaire has a right to be independent , and to work without a system ‘ which is a kind of damnation which forces one to a perpetual recantation ’ . |
| 3 | But you do have a right to be there and to be heard . |
| 4 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
| 5 | Everyone has a right to be buried in the churchyard of the parish in which they die — assuming that one exists , and that there is space left . |
| 6 | As Senna raced towards the victory he needed in Spain on Sunday , James Hunt , a driver familiar with the pressures of a late challenge for the championship , was saying Senna had no right to be on the track at all . |
| 7 | People milled about the room , shaking hands , saying things like : ‘ Hello , I 'm Jane , and I have a right to be alive . ’ |
| 8 | John Strafford of Beaconsfield was given a standing ovation after declaring that the people of Northern Ireland had ‘ more than earned the right to be members of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 9 | It is a performance of real moral authority , lightly worn , and richly earns her the right to be the character who , like Paulina in The Winter 's Tale , stage-manages the resurrection of the heroine — here literally pregnant with the future . |
| 10 | By then he won the right to be an oddity . |
| 11 | But the sovereigns from Queen Victoria onwards turned consultations with the archbishop into a constitutional convention ; so that now the Archbishop of Canterbury had the principal say in the choice of bishops and had a right to be consulted on the choice of his own successor ; or , if he had not a constitutional right , at least he had every right to proffer advice to the prime minister whether the prime minister asked for it or not . |
| 12 | The right to the ‘ pursuit of happiness ’ and the right to an ‘ adequate standard of living ’ are dead opposites , as opposite as the right to pursue something and the right to be given something , as opposite as the demand for minimum compulsion in society and the demand for maximum compulsion . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | They claimed that she was not yet sixteen and so could not marry and hence had no right to be here . |
| 15 | As police , he went on , ‘ we sometimes quite wrongly assume the monopoly of good ideas on good community relations and good policing … the public have a right to be actively involved in determining how policing is developed ’ . |
| 16 | The right to be as fucked up as men . |
| 17 | When the light descends on the individual and the voice within speaks it has an equal right to be heard . |
| 18 | The private sector would remain separate and the public would have the right to be covered by it if they wished — having first paid their taxes to support the general service . |
| 19 | They 'd no right to be there . |
| 20 | At every moment she expected the girl behind the desk to call her back : ‘ Hey , you ! ’ and question her right to be here . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , this villa has no right to be here , ’ Nigel told them , ‘ but since it is we must save it for future generations to enjoy . ’ |
| 22 | They want to a market economy , and they want the right to be able to choose what they and their families consume . |
| 23 | In practice it made very little difference whether an actor , writer or director accused of being tainted with Communism claimed the right to be silent or not . |
| 24 | They could never again claim the right to be above the scrutiny of the media . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Under the secret rules of Cabinet procedure , the prime minister has the right to be consulted about all chairmanships and deputy chairmanships of public boards and commissions of inquiry . |
| 27 | In practice , the platform becomes a place for people who want to be seen , those who believe that their own importance is such that the presentation of the programme is secondary to their right to be seen beside the programme participants . |
| 28 | Music , Karajan argued , has every right to be played as accurately and beautifully as Possible . |
| 29 | Despite Mike Duffey 's testimonial and the success of ‘ The Locomotion ’ in Australia she had n't yet earned the right to be taken too seriously . |
| 30 | 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 . |