Example sentences of "the right [prep] [noun] over " in BNC.

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1 The second most important power which came with the ownership of the Golden Share was the right of veto over the hiring and firing of the editor .
2 The Estonian parliament , influenced by these concerns , adopted a constitutional amendment on 16 November providing for the right of veto over all legislation that was intended to apply to the USSR as a whole .
3 The Assembly on Jan. 21 voted against acceptance of Havel 's constitutional reform , which would have guaranteed the two republics ( the Czech Lands and Slovakia ) the right of veto over any new constitution .
4 The most important right is the right of lien over guests ' property .
5 Where an innkeeper exercises the right of lien over the property of a guest , the innkeeper owes to the guest whose property the innkeeper is retaining a duty to take reasonable care of the property in question .
6 So far as Canterbury was concerned , the right of primacy over the whole of the British Isles was the greatest of all such gifts .
7 He stated that the British were not persuaded by the move for major changes in the institutional balance within the Community and ruled out the proposals for giving the European Parliament the right of co-decision over the Council of Ministers on legislative matters .
8 These amount to the rights of others over the owner 's land .
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