Example sentences of "[noun] [is] entitled [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does he agree that to stimulate demand within the United Kingdom home market , where problems exist on the retail side , the industry is entitled to expect some special attention from the Chancellor of the Exchequer at the next Budget , which could include a reduction in or the total elimination of the appalling 10 per cent . |
| 2 | In Albert v. Lavin the question posed for the House of Lords was ‘ whether a constable who reasonably believes that a breach of the peace is about to take place is entitled to detain any person without arrest to prevent that breach of the peace in circumstances which appear to him to be proper . ’ |
| 3 | If , however , the seller has been able to re-sell the goods elsewhere only at a loss ( i.e. for less than the buyer had agreed to pay ) the seller is entitled to deduct that loss from the refund . |
| 4 | Any member of a company entitled to attend and vote at a meeting is entitled to appoint another person ( whether a member or not ) as his proxy to attend and vote instead of him . |
| 5 | The gravamen of the charge is the demand without reasonable or probable cause : and I can not think that the mere fact that the threat is to do something a person is entitled to do either causes the threat not to be a ‘ menace ’ within the Act or in itself provides a reasonable or probable cause for the demand … |
| 6 | If green shoots are now appearing , the media is entitled to claim some credit for watering them . |
| 7 | Official doctrine , first proclaimed by Chairman Mao Zedong 40 years ago , insists that the state is entitled to use all the dictatorial weapons at its disposal to suppress its enemies . |
| 8 | Next , it will support the claim that corporate power is justifiable only in so far as it promotes the public interest , and accordingly that society is entitled to demand that company policies serve that interest . |
| 9 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
| 10 | If they had a communicable disease and it entailed investigating the vagina to find out , then I suppose the doctor is entitled to do that . |
| 11 | . Senior Buckingham Palace aid confirmed last night the Duchess is entitled to claim half the sum now contained in that fund . |
| 12 | Distinguishing Rex v. Clarke , 22 Cr.App.R. 58 and Reg. v. Hall , 43 Cr.App.R. 29 , Shelley J.A. , delivering the judgment of the court , observed that the defence is entitled to see such a statement , not by virtue of any general rule of law , but by virtue of the prosecution 's duty to inform the defence of statements in their possession made by a witness whose evidence at the trial differs substantially from what has been said in the statements . |
| 13 | If the seller fails to collect goods which the buyer has rightly rejected and as a result the buyer reasonably incurs storage expenses , the buyer is entitled to claim those expenses from the seller as damages for breach of contract , Kolfor Plant Ltd. v. Tilbury Plant Ltd. ( 1977 Q.B. ) . |
| 14 | Any individual is entitled to follow any faith he chooses — or even none at all — but this should be done sincerely and not simply as some sort of ‘ insurance policy ’ against whatever may arise in the future . |
| 15 | If three months thereafter the landlord has not replied in writing to the tenant objecting to the proposed alterations , the tenant is entitled to presume that the landlord consents to the alterations . |