Example sentences of "they have a duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | As such , they had a duty to enter each ale-house on a Saturday night as well as to ensure that Sunday was treated by townsfolk with due sobriety . |
| 2 | Adolescents were to be taught that they had a duty to serve the community and these ideas were to be bound together within the framework of ‘ citizenship ’ . |
| 3 | they had a duty to recognise civil authority ; |
| 4 | The magnates saw themselves as the natural counsellors of the king , and argued in the Boulogne agreement and in the petition against the Despensers that they had a duty to act to protect the realm if the king was being led by unwise counsel . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 6 | Initially they had a duty to promote only the welfare of the blind but from 1951 they had power to promote the welfare of the deaf and of the general classes of the physically handicapped . |
| 7 | Many of the country 's aristocratic leaders believed that they had a duty to help improve the condition of the working man . |
| 8 | They have a duty to set the record straight , otherwise they are conniving at falsehood . |
| 9 | Many who hold the minority view accept that they must recognize the mind of the Church , just as the majority realise that they have a duty to respect the consciences of those who disagree . |
| 10 | If they feel that the committee is erring they have a duty to intervene and point out what they think is the best course . |
| 11 | In addition , the planners argue that they have a duty imposed upon them under recent Acts of Parliament to conserve the natural environment of Orkney . |
| 12 | It would seem from all these experiences that coroners , procurators fiscal and examining magistrates very seldom consider that they have a duty to act in a manner which will assist the aircraft accident investigator . |
| 13 | Where the risk is considered too serious for the children to remain in their family , they have a duty to provide alternative care , in foster homes or other forms of residential care ( and there is a duty to monitor children 's safety and well-being in these situations also ) . |
| 14 | They have a duty to make sure that the best principles of co-operation are applied to all they do in relation to each child in the name of the ‘ child 's best interests ’ . |
| 15 | In particular , the Lords feel that they have a duty to defend the constitution ; indeed , that that is their ultimate raison d'être . |
| 16 | A possible basis for the decision , it is suggested , is that in instructing the appellants to leave the spot outside the premises , the police were acting to prevent an offence as they have a duty to do , namely to require the appellant to stop obstructing the highway . |
| 17 | Usually the Law ignores what we get up to down in Deptford , but firing off shotguns is something they have a duty to respond to . |
| 18 | Will he also impress upon the building societies involved that they have a duty and an obligation to ensure that people are not evicted from their homes until the compensation scheme can take effect ? |
| 19 | The thing that makes British museums and galleries so exciting and unique is that , unlike American ones , they have a duty to collect not just the high spots of any period , but the average , sometimes even the bad , works of art which represent the context from which the great works of art arose . |
| 20 | for young people and if one of the things that corporations to my mind have a positive duty to do which is the social responsibility and we live in a society so increasingly fractured , rudderless and you know not so far away in places from anarchy that they have a duty to do things which effect maybe to see one the Bs not the A ones the Bs |
| 21 | He asked about Lloyds , he is quite right that that is not covered er by these orders but it is the case that it is a condition of the appointment of ordered , er of auditors into syndicates er that they shall report , they have a duty er to report er where these situations arise . |
| 22 | Dentists are going to have to recognise they have a duty to the community , and the Government must recognise they should be paid correctly . |
| 23 | The social workers say they have a duty to prepare the seventeen year old for independent life as an adult . |
| 24 | I think some stations might do that , but they only do it if , if it 's , if it 's not going to be detrimental to the turn out , in other words they , they have a system , erm for instance they have a duty crew over the weekend , so that at least some can take their families to the seaside if they wanted to , so six will remain around the house er er but they do have some system , but I think the majority of fire stations , there are twenty seven in Suffolk like that , who work on the system of getting there as quickly as they can , and that is the best competition to get there , to get the ride . |
| 25 | ‘ The majority of local authorities wo n't even publicise that they have a duty to provide because they were frightened it would result in a huge increase in demand they would be unable to cope with ’ , she said . |