Example sentences of "[noun] have a [adj] duty " in BNC.
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| 1 | the university has a new duty , we are told : there is a besieging host , everincreasing , of Indians , Africans , Commonwealth people in general , Levantines , who aspire to become university teachers of English literature , and must therefore have a PhD — preferably a Cambridge one ( though it is admitted that a large proportion of them could n't hope to take the English Tripos with much credit — even if they could pass ) . |
| 2 | The guardian has a general duty to safeguard the interests of the child ( s41(2) ( b ) ) . |
| 3 | It has also been made clear that where an unmet need is recorded which the department has a legal duty to provide , it could be used as the basis for a legal challenge , although it should still be recorded . |
| 4 | On the other hand , in the Spycatcher case Lord Goff decided that Peter Wright had a lifelong duty not to disclose confidential information that had come into his possession as an officer of the Secret Service . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | All LEAs have a statutory duty to have policies on the various aspects of the education service for which they are responsible . |
| 7 | If the exchange has a contractual duty of care , it is probably limited to acting with reasonable care and skill in the best interests of the market as a whole , and for legitimate reasons . |
| 8 | The FAA has a similar duty in the USA , as have equivalent organisations in almost every country throughout the world . |
| 9 | There can be no doubt at all that the constable has a well-established duty to preserve the peace . |
| 10 | All children , whatever their abilities or disabilities , have a statutory right to be educated ; and all parents have a corresponding duty to see that they are educated , at least up to the age of 16 . |
| 11 | The DSS has a statutory duty to pay benefits of a given level approved by Parliament regardless of the level of sickness or unemployment that may arise in any one year . |
| 12 | Each person has a legal duty to refrain from any physical touching of another without consent , either express or implied . |
| 13 | ( a ) Appointment The court has a positive duty to appoint a guardian ad litem in the following proceedings unless satisfied that this is not necessary in order to safeguard the child 's interests ( s41 ) : ( i ) application for a care or supervision order ; ( ii ) direction to investigate under s37 when an interim care order has been made or is under consideration ; ( iii ) application for discharge of a care order ; ( iv ) application for variation or discharge of a supervision order ; ( v ) application to extend a supervision order ; ( vi ) application to substitute a supervision order for a care order ; ( vii ) consideration of a residence order for a child in care ; ( viii ) application relating to contact with a child in care ; ( ix ) proceedings relating to emergency protection and child assessment orders ; ( x ) proceedings relating to secure accommodation orders ; ( xi ) application for leave to change the surname of a child in care ; ( xii ) application for leave to remove a child in care from the United Kingdom for a period exceeding one month ; ( xiii ) application for leave to permit the emigration of a child in care ; ( xiv ) appeal against the making or refusal to make , vary or discharge above orders . |
| 14 | Where children are considered to be ‘ at risk ’ within their families , the social service agencies have a statutory duty to monitor their continued safety , and to co-ordinate services to help their families look after them properly . |
| 15 | Directors of Torras have a legal duty to pursue the missing funds , they add . |
| 16 | Reporters and producers have a public duty to speak out if their vision of truth is suppressed by government appointees . |
| 17 | Thus every local authority has a general duty : ( a ) to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need within its area ; and ( b ) so far as is consistent with that duty , to promote the upbringing of such children by their families . |
| 18 | In Britain these surfaces are inspected at least quarterly for projections , cracks and rocking slabs , and the highway authority has a clear duty to maintain these facilities to provide unobstructed and free passage . |
| 19 | Indeed , the local authority has a clear duty to restore the child to his or her natural parents as soon as this is consistent with the child 's welfare . |
| 20 | All that had its 1930s precursors , such as the early fiction of George Orwell and Graham Greene ; and in an open letter to Elizabeth Bowen , written several years before the Movement was ever heard of , Greene had remarked that the novelist has a simple duty to tell the truth and to get it right : ‘ By truth I mean accuracy — it is largely a matter of style ’ . |
| 21 | The auditors owe a duty of care to the shore share holders collectively , not to individual share holders or what are called stake holders , employees for example , er nor do auditors have a general duty so far as the public interest is concerned . |
| 22 | For example , the decision in Paris v. Stepney BC , in which it was decided that the employer of a one-eyed motor mechanic had a special duty of care to provide him with goggles to protect his good eye , may have had the perhaps unexpected and certainly undesired consequence of making it harder for disabled workers to get jobs in which they need special protection . |
| 23 | It can not be stressed too strongly that the police in a democracy have a positive duty to facilitate the enjoyment of freedoms . |
| 24 | Whether or not a policy exists , social services staff have a legal duty to keep confidential all information which is given to them . |
| 25 | Television personalities have a prime duty to protect their popular reputations and have no genuine ability to judge the quality of a tomato , let alone contemporary art . |
| 26 | If it is argued that a man has a moral duty to obey the law and that to break the law of the land is a violation of one 's duty to one 's country , then one has only to point to instances of government policy where it would clearly be immoral to obey the law of the land . |
| 27 | Rightly or wrongly , I could not accept that certain occupations having a particular duty to society could withdraw their essential services for financial considerations . |
| 28 | All health care professionals have a similar duty . |
| 29 | If you find that the results are likely to be disastrous , and that the principles underlying it , which we detect not only from the official utterances of members of the Government but also from the more indiscreet explanations of so-called supporters of the government are pernicious and that the whole matter is one that has never been duly referred to the people of this country , then I venture to say that your Lordships have a clear duty before you — not to decree the final extinction of the Bill — because that is not what we propose , but to insist that before it becomes law an authoritative expression of the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom shall have reached us with regard to it . |
| 30 | There was , however , growing pressure from radical groups for Iran to form such an Islamic alliance ; former Interior Minister Ali Akbar Mohtashemi said on Jan. 20 that " the Iranian nation has a religious duty to rise for a jihad " [ see also p. 37696 ] . |