Example sentences of "have a say in " in BNC.

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1 With both creches and Childcare Cheques the employer has a say in the quality of care provided . ’
2 As a result , because the properties that were expropriated were modern commercial farms , the government has maintained the structure of production , but , unlike the organisation prior to the revolution , the workforce now has a say in administration .
3 In practical terms , whether one has realistic access to the power to initiate a legislative proposal may be as important as whether , once a proposal is initiated , one has a say in whether it is adopted or not .
4 For that investment the member gets a stake in the club and in the freehold , and thereby has a say in how it is run .
5 How often have backs had a say in what happens from five-metre scrum ?
6 THE planning system is designed around the idea that people should have a say in what happens to their immediate surroundings .
7 Lord Mackay conceded that the judges should have a say in approving the rules for solicitors advocates after his original , more radical , green paper proposals drew unprecedented public criticism from the judiciary .
8 He should have a say in how the guest speakers use their time at the event : should they meet the press or the mayor , where can they go for a bit of peace and quiet , even reassurance , and so on .
9 Mr Jobson said that if any supporters would have a say in his future , it would be the club 's shareholders .
10 Involve the children in the selection of books for the library by asking the school 's library service or a book shop to regularly send along a large range of new titles on a sale or return basis and let the children have a say in what 's bought on their behalf .
11 Again one sees the enormous task of communication which bureaux managers have , to convey to their volunteer team how they can have a say in the running of their bureau .
12 The FO 's assessor will have a say in how the BAS spends its money and will report back to the Foreign secretary on how useful the BAS is as a political presence in the Antarctic and the south Atlantic , This move , which clearly follows from Britain 's determination to outface Argentina in the region , brings a new political backdrop to the activities of scientists in the Antarctic .
13 If , as seems likely , drug makers , food companies and others who are obliged to have their new products approved by the US Food and Drug Administration are going to be asked to pay for their vetting , it seems only reasonable that they should have a say in how it is run .
14 USL 's other stockholders , Sun , ICL , Amdahl , Fujitsu , Motorola , NEC , Oki , Toshiba , Olivetti , Tata and 3i , may not have a say in what eventually happens or whether Novell takes it all .
15 That 'll change on the next record as I 'll have a say in the writing . ’
16 Through Convocation , graduates can have a say in the way the University is run .
17 As a result we all feel we should have a say in its appearance , but as yet we have no right to be heard .
18 In January 1852 he writes to Louise and explains , yet again , his incorrigibility : he is as he is , he can not change , he does not have a say in the matter , he is subject to the gravity of things , that gravity ‘ which makes the polar bear inhabit the icy regions and the camel walk upon the sand ’ .
19 This suggestion was , not surprisingly , refused by Mrs Thatcher , who , despite the fact that her Government used the guillotine in Parliament to ensure a jury can no longer have a say in the public interest , as they had in the trial of Clive Ponting , declared in a written reply to Baroness Ewart Biggs , that :
20 They are funded by your council and will thus have a say in things .
21 They feel that as it 's their heritage they should have a say in the matter and a proper consideration and therefore there are thousands of signatures saying please can we have a public inquiry .
22 There 's nobody , nobody can tell me that the big national companies who pour money into the Tory fund , that they do n't have a say in their policy .
23 Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion .
24 The notion was that communities should have a say in what was taught , and the hidden agenda was to end the undeclared war between predominantly white and Jewish teachers , and an increasingly black and Hispanic body of pupils .
25 The board is also having to readvertise for a replacement to Dr Forwell after Mr Fyfe insisted that he must have a say in the appointment .
26 And I think the reason for that was because they did n't have a say in what was happening .
27 The idea of their having a say in the running of a club appears to make officials recoil with horror .
28 Some countries — such as France — see EMU as a way of winning back some power from the West Germans , since a European central bank would mean all the members of the EC having a say in how policy is conducted .
29 Accountability or value for money is not the only reason for knowing what government is doing and having a say in it , but the consumer may have a more direct effect on policy and the producer than any number of democratic arguers .
30 Equally , however , it should be recognised that some writing is about communicating with the outside world and having a say in that world .
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