Example sentences of "[noun sg] had a [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD WRIGHT : I think the jury should be directed by the judge that the respondent Association had a legal right to put the person 's name on the stop list , so long as they did so in order to promote the trade interests of the Association and its members and not with intent to injure , and so long as the money , fine or penalty demanded was reasonable and not extortionate . |
| 2 | Despite all its problems the Club had a strong will to succeed and was rarely despondent . |
| 3 | At an April 18 press conference in London , Hamdi declined to describe the crisis as a " famine " — a point of contention with donor countries — but he did go further than previous official statements in referring to the need for emergency aid and saying that the UN World Food Programme had a free mandate to organize the operation . |
| 4 | At a hearing before Otton J. on 15 January 1991 , when he gave leave to move , counsel for Lautro raised the question whether the applicant had a sufficient interest to entitle him to make the application . |
| 5 | At the hearing before Otton J. counsel for Lautro took a preliminary point as to whether the applicant had a sufficient interest to make an application for judicial review . |
| 6 | Kings wanted to build up reserves of bullion for the very practical reason that it would enable them to recruit armies , and it was also true that gold and silver had a great power to dazzle men 's minds . |
| 7 | The mammoth had a shaggy coat to protect it against the rigours of the ice ages . |
| 8 | Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) . |
| 9 | I remembered buying an ‘ Orange ’ Protestant newspaper in Enniskillen and reading the editor 's lament that no English literary type had a good word to say about Presbyterian loyalists . |
| 10 | At a meeting at Essex County Hospital he outlined priorities for care , such as cases where patients were in immediate danger or disabled people were involved and the council had a statutory obligation to act . |
| 11 | The Chancellor had a narrow tightrope to walk and he managed to please a variety of people . |
| 12 | Gently , Anna tried to suggest that a life free of an ageing queen had a great deal to recommend it . |
| 13 | Susan did n't get up that day , so Breeze had a great deal to do . |
| 14 | Some of the boys who had just left school used to be mischieful when they brought the farm-horses in , but the smith had a few tricks to put them in their place . |
| 15 | Since a servant 's whole time belonged to the master or mistress , the housekeeper had a legal right to make this sort of demand , though various writers had asserted the need for servants to be allowed time to read and develop intellectually . |
| 16 | Cardiff kept his distance from them , so that the torch beam had a wider angle to illuminate the scene . |
| 17 | Whilst he was Dean of Westminster he would devote three or four evenings a week to teaching the older boys of Westminster School : one of them remembered how he also would take the younger ones with him for walks ‘ and in that wayfaring leisure had a singular dexterity to fill those narrow vessels with a funnel … . |
| 18 | ‘ Each person had a huge role to play , ’ he said . |
| 19 | It may be argued that the King had a special responsibility to preserve the agreement , in that , in a country such as Britain without a codified constitution , there is no reference point , no pouvoir neutre , over and above the exigencies of party politics . |
| 20 | That evening , while the Prime Minister waited at No. 10 for a telegram from the New York bankers in reply to the Cabinet 's inquiry , the King had a single guest to dine . |
| 21 | Fabians also believed that public welfare had a vital role to play in integrating society , alleviating social conflict and promoting the expression of altruistic sentiments countering , if partially , the atomism , selfishness and inequalities of capitalist market economies . |
| 22 | He soon came to doubt ‘ the optimism of avant-garde movements ’ , abandoning any illusion that art had a vital role to play in the ideological struggle . |
| 23 | In that case their Lordships placed much emphasis upon the fact that the local authority had a virtual mandate to retain certain grammar schools in the area . |
| 24 | He said , however , that the commission had a legal obligation to respond to complaints it received , as in the case of Strathclyde , and had already taken steps to evaluate the substance of the complaint . |
| 25 | The searching woman had a unique role to play in these affairs . |
| 26 | But although he looked down on Nuri he also looked up at him , and because of that Nuri had a unique ability to touch Mahmoud on the raw . |
| 27 | Hence the government had a major role to play not simply through the provision of business training but by means of supplying financial incentives through the taxation system . |
| 28 | The details of the formula were varied , sometimes year by year , but the formula was then automatic in its operation ( it is true that the government had a reserve power to withhold grant from a particular authority , but this power was never used ) . |
| 29 | The syn-PLA2 and cat-PLA2 values of patients with the necrotising form of acute pancreatitis had a slight tendency to increase during the first six days whereas the values in patients with oedematous acute pancreatitis decreased . |
| 30 | Whigs and Tories were agreed during the crucial debates of 1830–32 that democracy was an unpalatable and dangerous form of government , that " a stake in the country " was an essential title to political power , that landed property had a special part to play in guaranteeing the stability of the social order and the authority of the Constitution , that the " wild " — as distinct from the " rational " part of the public should not be left undisturbed to exercise pressure on governmental policy . |