Example sentences of "[that] [noun pl] have a [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offences committed by groups may well occasion greater fear than offences committed by individuals , and it may also be true that groups have a tendency to do things which individuals might not do : there is a group bravado , a group pressure , which may lead to excesses . |
| 2 | To say , in the abstract , that birds have a right to fly seems to me rather foolish if it be taken as saying more than that most birds fly naturally . |
| 3 | Next , quoting the Confederation of British Industries , the chapter rehearses the view that companies have a duty to take account of the interest of employees and should develop effective systems of employee participation . |
| 4 | More generally the evidence of the study of middle-class kinship by Firth , Hubert and Forge indicates that most people acknowledge that parents have a right to make demands upon their adult children , and that most children will do their best to meet those demands ( Firth , Hubert and Forge , 1970 , pp. 406–7 ) . |
| 5 | This is not to deny with Brown ( 1980 ) that geomorphologists have a part to play in elucidating the history of the shape of the earth , particularly in the light of the revolution that the theory of plate tectonics brought to the understanding of continental distribution . |
| 6 | They noted that asylums had a tendency to provide employment on farms and in workshops for the most competent and socially organized patients and there were some remarkably successful asylum farming ventures ; for example , in the early twentieth century Cane Hill Hospital became famous for its herd of pedigree pigs . |
| 7 | One problem with this is that comparisons have a tendency to set up one group covertly as the norm ; in the case of sex , it is men who are the norm . |
| 8 | In addition , the recent judgment of the European Court of Justice in ‘ Francovich ’ has established that individuals have a right to claim damages from member states who fail to properly implement Community law . |
| 9 | Lady Wilcox claimed that there was widespread agreement that lenders had a responsibility to assist the minority of people who became ‘ debt casualties ’ , by helping to fund money advice . |
| 10 | It was the first appeal court ruling that relatives had a right to claim compensation over damage to a foetus which later caused the child 's death . |
| 11 | He believes that industrialists have a lot to offer academic institutions in helping them to manage their resources . |
| 12 | Patrick Hazlewood , of Dorcan School , agrees that teachers have a lot to answer for when it comes to explaining engineering to students . |
| 13 | One might suppose in reading this chapter that teachers have a lot to answer for ; after all , they are the ones who are responsible for accentuating sport by turning a vague , ill-formed image into a seemingly realistic pursuit for sporting excellence . |
| 14 | Now , much of what they were saying — particularly their insistence that women had a right to control their bodies and therefore a right to family planning — was welcomed by all sides of the population industry . |
| 15 | South Korea has a Confucian-style society which has a tradition of respect for hierarchical authority , but also one of egalitaranism and an expectation that rulers have a duty to treat their people fairly . |
| 16 | Pedestrians know that runners have a programme to fulfil , and respect it by getting out of their way . |
| 17 | Once they have suffered punishments fitting to their crimes , the social contract dictates that offenders have a right to re-enter society as citizens . |
| 18 | But , read the chapter this way or that , if there was ever a case for recognising that unions have a right to share in the management of companies , that case depended critically upon a general expectation — amounting to a near-certainty — that , rather than give primacy to their sectional interests , unions would and could act in the general interest whenever it was necessary or desirable for them to do so . |
| 19 | When we consider the regulation that will be imposed and the rights of consumers in Northern Ireland , my hon. Friend will find that consumers will be much better protected and safeguarded under privatisation than if they had been left to continue with a publicly owned monopoly which too often had a life of its own and was not subject to the outside pressures that consumers have a right to bring to bear . |