Example sentences of "he have a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | LORD ATKIN : The ordinary blackmailer normally threatens to do what he has a perfect right to do-namely , communicate some compromising conduct to a person whose knowledge is likely to affect the person threatened . |
| 2 | To some extent , the potential harshness of the strict liability rule is mitigated by the fact that , if a person acts in what he takes to be self-defence when he is confronted by another whom he does not realise to be a constable , he has a good defence to the charge , because he is not guilty of an assault . |
| 3 | If the defendant can establish any of the defences mentioned in section 24(1) he has a good defence to any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts . |
| 4 | Now if the executors of the will delay paying out then the husband can claim that he has a legal right to his money . |
| 5 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 6 | Though he has a good deal of contact with senior officials ( and in the northern agency spends most of his time at headquarters ) he has a strong loyalty to the field officers in his area , retaining from his own earlier experience as a field officer what he feels to be a sympathetic understanding of practical problems . |
| 7 | He has a two-pronged response to the increase in Ecstasy use : ‘ We 're trying to cut off the supply , ’ he says . |
| 8 | ‘ I think he has a terrific attitude to the game . |
| 9 | ‘ Unless he has a terrific wish to , ’ she said , coming last to Edward . |
| 10 | Where the power is exercised by a minister , for practical reasons , the courts are more willing to hold that he has an implied power to sub-delegate . |
| 11 | Believe me when I say that he has an unexpected side to him . |
| 12 | He believed on those grounds that he had a legal right to the tyres . |
| 13 | The court held that the facts did not constitute robbery because the accused was not dishonest , because he thought he had a legal right to the money ( see the discussion of s.2(1) ( a ) above ) . |
| 14 | If a man could love flowers and arrange a garden like that , then he had a nice side to him . |
| 15 | He had a great deal to be grateful for . |
| 16 | He had a great objection to plays and novels and to romances and poems , but reflected that Our Saviour spoke in parables , and that fables might therefore be admitted in moral discussions . |
| 17 | In actual fact he had a deep-seated aversion to all dogs , almost amounting to a phobia , which increased in direct proportion to the size of the breed . |
| 18 | He had a vicious side to his nature and it apparently meant nothing to him that an old man was going to be roughed up during the raid . |
| 19 | In the lodging house he had a tiny cubicle to himself but privacy was impossible . |
| 20 | He had a rooted antipathy to T. S. Eliot which , even after they had both become famous as defenders of the faith and brothers in Christ , was still hard to shake off . |
| 21 | He had a powerful aversion to climbing up rigging . ’ |
| 22 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 23 | ‘ What will he do , ’ yelled Rafiq , as if he had a good answer to this question , ‘ when he comes ? ’ |
| 24 | Furthermore , as will be seen , he had a personal commitment to the forging of an explicit relationship between English , education , culture , and the processes of liberal democracy . |
| 25 | He had a strong desire to be a ‘ peace-keeper ’ . |
| 26 | If her son had n't got a name , at least she was going to see that he had a proper lining to his stomach . |
| 27 | He said he had a fundamental objection to a health campaign being used to promote the use of condoms , which was a multinational business . |
| 28 | I 've read about Mr help line , I did n't realise he had a direct connection to the almighty but he 's obviously got his instructions and erm we are very pleased that he 's going along the right lines . |
| 29 | I saw that he had a pompous side to him , so certain he seemed in taste and judgement . |
| 30 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |