Example sentences of "have a say " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE planning system is designed around the idea that people should have a say in what happens to their immediate surroundings . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lord Mackay conceded that the judges should have a say after his original , more radical , green paper proposals drew unprecedented criticism . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | O&Y has agreed to pay £400 million over several years but its bankers will have a say before any deal is ratified . |
| 6 | Mr Jobson said that if any supporters would have a say in his future , it would be the club 's shareholders . |
| 7 | There is a display of juggling ; there is Paddy , the Caring Ventriloquist ( ’ He lets the dummy have a say ’ ) and there is one big Paddy Ashdown song to close the show — ‘ Do It My Way ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Senior Euro-rebel Sir Teddy Taylor said people should have a say about ‘ handing over ’ their rights and freedoms . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That 'll change on the next record as I 'll have a say in the writing . ’ |
| 15 | Through Convocation , graduates can have a say in the way the University is run . |
| 16 | As a result we all feel we should have a say in its appearance , but as yet we have no right to be heard . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | 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 : |
| 19 | Johnson , however , fully aware of the likely number of biographers he might attract before and after his death , found here a biography in which he could have a say , thus not only securing his immortality , but controlling it . |
| 20 | They are funded by your council and will thus have a say in things . |
| 21 | Another question is whether Parliament should give its approval first before a public inquiry is held or whether Parliament should have a say after the inquiry . |
| 22 | Although all interested parties must have a say , surely it is time that the marine environment is given the recognition and protection it deserves . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Both Mr Rodrick and Mr Palmer briefly mention that the local people should have a say , presumably in the planning and implementation of the community forest , but the mechanics of how this will come about are far from clear . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now I can see no good reason for that being allowable , I 'm not quite sure how you stop it , but I think it it 's , it 's a basic problem with bulk transfer , the individuals do not have a say . |
| 30 | And I think the reason for that was because they did n't have a say in what was happening . |