Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] authority " in BNC.
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| 1 | This independence has not been recognized by the Soviet authorities nor by any other sovereign state [ see pp. 37360-62 ] . |
| 2 | The Kosovo Provincial Assembly , which had been dissolved by the Serbian authorities in June , was re-formed unilaterally by 111 of its ethnic Albanian , Turkish and Moslem deputies at a secret session on Sept. 7 in the village of Kacanik . |
| 3 | In another earlier incident , a former Cuban air force officer , Orestes Lorenzo Peres , who had fled to the USA with his MiG-23 jet in September 1991 , returned to Cuba on Dec. 19 in a light plane , evading detection by air defence systems , and then flew back to the USA with his wife and two children , who had been prevented by the Cuban authorities from joining him . |
| 4 | Military commanders were reluctant to lose the momentum of their campaign against the rebels , who they judged to have been weakened by the Indian authorities ' clamp-down on their organization in Tamil Nadu state [ see also p. 37964 ] . |
| 5 | A separation of science from religion has also been seen in a diminished authority for the Bible in matters of natural philosophy . |
| 6 | The Ugandan government had suspended five of its pilots for apparently carrying weapons on board a Ugandan-registered aircraft from Bophuthatswana to Zagreb , where they had been impounded by the Yugoslav authorities . |
| 7 | Access to the adjoining land may well have been provided by means of a road or ’ hammerhead ’ and the road will almost certainly have been adopted by the local authority . |
| 8 | Some local authorities may refuse to accept development of the site unless the section of the access road that is private has been adopted by the local authority . |
| 9 | There may be important conditions to be observed ( eg to ensure that the road has been adopted by the local authority ) , and if it is not possible to comply with these , the mortgage may not go through . |
| 10 | We have been instructed by the Malawian authorities who are responsible for our fees and nobody else is . ’ |
| 11 | They have been told by the local authority that they can not grow oilseed rape because the smell might upset Disney guests . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , Zhukov 's intervention had been solicited by the highest authority ; by Party norms no impropriety had been committed ( as would have been so had Khrushchev 's colleagues been acting in accordance with Central Committee sentiment ) . |
| 13 | The original dispersed development strategy ended up with a shortfall , something like two thousand dwellings , compared to the sites which had been agreed between the various authorities at the time , it 's also worth noting that that was based on a dwelling target of nine thousand one hundred for Greater York , I think that 's correct , over the period since actual sites which have been agreed between the authorities since then have clearly increased , so as you 've seen in my appendix eight the residual requirement has now been reduced to a a level of nine hundred and forty seven . |
| 14 | The Department of Energy , for example , was responsible for providing an £80,000 grant to the Cornwall Energy Project ( CEP ) , a research group promoting the use of conservation and renewable sources of energy in the South-West peninsula , The CEP had in turn been requested by the local authorities consortium to provide evidence to the inquiry against the Electricity Board 's case . |
| 15 | Slovenia 's airports , which had been closed by the federal authorities on June 27 , were reopened on July 26 . |
| 16 | Panamá América , a newspaper which had been closed by the military authorities 21 years earlier , also resumed publication on Jan. 5 . |
| 17 | The listing particulars may not be published until they have been approved by a competent authority in the member state ; the competent authority in the UK is the London Stock Exchange . |
| 18 | The judge directed that the transfer was not to take place unless foster parents provisionally identified for W. had been approved by the local authority as foster carers . |
| 19 | In the remainder of this chapter our attention is focused on the means by which control has been exercised by the monetary authorities , and the problems connected with such control . |
| 20 | Will the Minister say this evening whether the Government intend to implement , if not immediately , at least in the very near future , those sections of part II of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 that prevent the surrender of a disposal licence until a certificate of completion has been isssued by the relevant authority ? |
| 21 | Only three republics ( Belorussia , Turkmenistan and Tajikistan ) eventually voted on the single question that had been proposed by the central authorities . |
| 22 | By the last week of April more than 10 countries , including Belgium , Czechoslovakia , Germany Hungary , Japan , Spain , and Sweden , had been notified by the Libyan authorities that their presence in Libya had to be reduced within 14 days . |
| 23 | Still to come : Greenpeace awaits news of one of its ships which has been seized by the Soviet authorities . |
| 24 | Eight foreign environmentalists have been arrested by the Malaysian authorities after staging anti-logging protests on the island of Sarawak . |
| 25 | expert has been appointed by an appointing authority . |
| 26 | Similar fates await buildings formerly owned by the secret police , which in many districts have been inherited by the local authorities . |
| 27 | The legislation , which had been opposed by the Chinese authorities , aimed to give security to business people , civil servants and other professionals in Hong Kong and to dissuade them from emigrating before 1997 . |
| 28 | Much of what has been deduced about the institutionalized authority held by bishops in the late fifth and early sixth century , over and above their canonical jurisdiction , depends on episcopal epitaphs : it is not easy to distinguish fact from topos in such documents . |
| 29 | 2 In the past , certain data has been collated by the regulatory authorities , such as the National Rivers Authority and Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , who monitor industry 's performance and this data is available from their public registers . |
| 30 | Jewish groups also protested that some of the 35,000 people who had been pardoned by the Lithuanian authorities since 1988 were Nazi war criminals , prompting the government to announce that two of the cases would be reviewed . |