How To Use By rights In A Sentence
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By rights you should report him to management - he obviously makes a habit of this.
The Sun
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By rights I ought to be a conchie, but that would just about kill the Old
Greener Than You Think
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By rights you should report him to management - he obviously makes a habit of this.
The Sun
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By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
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By rights we should be wearing caps and shorts with a catapult in the back pocket.
Times, Sunday Times
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The creation was completely illegal - a development in a forbidden area which by rights should be demolished.
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You realize that by rights you should not come into this room, don't you? This is only for people who work here.
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By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
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By rights, the lower half of the TV screen should then have been filled by a caption reading: ‘CHEERS!’
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By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
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By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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By rights you should report him to management - he obviously makes a habit of this.
The Sun
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By rights and logically he ought to fall into rank with the rest of the gods; but there is a crossgrained element in his nature which keeps him out.
Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India
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“By rights,” Woolf wrote, Lottie — the parlormaid — “should have a whole chapter to herself.”
Imperfect Union
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I must have slept badly and was shrouded in a mist of tiredness that, by rights, should have been long gone.
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You realize that by rights you should not come into this room, don't you? This is only for people who work here.
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Men of science come up with a brilliant, epoch-making idea that should, by rights, change the course of human history.
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By rights, the tent should have been half full; instead it was rammed, proof that despite the sniping from the music press, Travis had mobilised an army and returned to their home patch in triumph.
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By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
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By rights half the money should be mine.
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You realize that by rights you should not come into this room, don't you? This is only for people who work here.
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I find my self somewhat underwhelmed. I often feel that I'm missing the point with the Bourbon biscuit and by rights should like it a lot more than I do.
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Third, and chief reason, that try how you might, you could scarcely help supposing, on looking at his face, that your eyes were not far from a well-finished mind, instead of the well-finished skin et praeterea nihil, which is by rights the Mark of the Row.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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By rights, it should be obvious cannon fodder for a dispirited Opposition.
A SONG AT TWILIGHT
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conclusiveness" of the conclusive reasons implied by rights assertions in recognition of the fact that, as we have seen, some rights have priority to others, and that few if any rights outweigh absolutely all non-right considerations in all circumstances.
Rights
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With a bit of overclocking on the memory you should, by rights, be able to gain an average frame rate above thirty frames per second.
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By rights the Social Democrats ought to be the favourites in the election. But nothing looks less certain.
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So by rights we should be in the midst of spring, with lambs leaping, the smell of dew hanging in the air and the sight of rowers happily plodding home from the Cherwell.
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By rights, half the reward should be mine.
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By rights we should have gone up in a cloud of starfire and glory.
Minnesota Menage
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The widow of a marquis, whom you should by rights call a marchioness dowager (but we overlook it -- you meant no harm) is entitled (in any hotel that we know or frequent) to go in to dinner whenever, and as often, as she likes.
Frenzied Fiction
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By rights he ought to be here now, either steering or attending to the horse, though luckily the horse has sense enough to attend to himself.
The Wind in the Willows
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Well, I guess I deserved it, the bloke I played with didn't deserve me, he plays off 22 and by rights I should have marmalized him, but his chipping and iron play were ten times better than me.
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His dapper mod dress code contradicts the sweaty confrontationalism he projects on stage (and just off - any open dancefloor space is by rights his as well).
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They did not share that enthusiasm with the proud trapper, over that particular foxskin; simply because they knew it was a very poor specimen of its kind, and by rights not worth one-tenth the amount of the check which Ethan had received from the dealer in the distant city -- Phil's uncle, though Ethan never dreamed of such a dreadful thing.
Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge
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By rights we should be wearing caps and shorts with a catapult in the back pocket.
Times, Sunday Times