Example sentences of "[vb mod] have power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competition authorities should have powers to impose punishments on firms that engage in anticompetitive practices ( e.g. price fixing , and exclusionary or predatory practices ) , to require firms to enter into binding commitments to desist from conduct that is demonstrably prejudicial to competition , and to propose structural remedies where firms have established a dominant position in a market . |
| 2 | The agency should have powers of compulsory purchase and therefore the site of the town should be publicly owned . |
| 3 | ‘ I do think the courts should have powers to send really persistent , nasty little juvenile offenders away somewhere where they will be looked after better and where they will be educated , ’ Mr Clarke said . |
| 4 | It should have powers to order compensation for the public and add an office in Scotland to look after Scottish complaints . |
| 5 | Anyone importing or exporting large sums in cash should be obliged to declare it and Customs officers should have power to seize the money if they suspected it was derived from crime . |
| 6 | The Settled Land Act 1882 provided that the tenant for life should have power to sell , grant leases , or mortgage the land , giving to the purchaser , lessee , or mortgagee a title free from the beneficial interests under the settlement . |
| 7 | It is compatible with the order-maintenance function of the police that they should have power to regulate both public processions and assemblies , and the 1986 Act refines their powers to do this . |
| 8 | Yet it is the idea that men should have power over women , coupled with the belief that women have a particular ‘ role ’ — much more closely specified than is any corresponding male ‘ role ’ , that is coming to be questioned . |
| 9 | From a different perspective it can also be argued that it is right and proper that , for example , the Mandarins of the civil service should have power , because , after all , they have the expertise and knowledge in government matters . |
| 10 | The Government also seems to favour a cut off time of 8pm , after which children should not be in a bar , but seems open to persuasion as to whether the Licensing Justices should have power to extend that time . |
| 11 | It makes law depend on distinct social conventions it designates as legal conventions ; in particular on conventions about which institutions should have power to make law and how . |
| 12 | The intention of the section is clear : the shareholders must have power to remove the board . |
| 13 | Thirdly , the individual must have power to enjoy the income of the following company . |
| 14 | This new organization , or consortium , could have powers delegated to it to design and buy services across an area coterminous with the local authority boundary . |
| 15 | No one could have power over others any more . |
| 16 | ‘ It appears to me clear ’ , he said , ‘ that neither the LTE in making its proposals , nor the GLC in accepting them , could have power totally to disregard any responsibility for ensuring , so far as practicable , that outgoings are met by revenue , and that the LTE runs its business on economic lines . ’ |
| 17 | Th you said or you implied that the women were surprised that er that they could have power and you use it effectively . |
| 18 | but two to ten shift they 'd have power cut |
| 19 | While new organizations may possess a strong commitment to a new policy , and may have powers that enable it to bring together the resources for its implementation that were not possessed by any single previous organization , it still has to relate to a world in which other agencies have a great deal of power to influence its success . |
| 20 | Although the agent bank may have power to renegotiate the loan contract , a consensus is required on any major adjustments relating to interest and repayment , e.g. debt or loan rescheduling . |
| 21 | Companies may have power in setting the terms of the employment relationship arising from a possible asymmetry in bargaining position , but they also possess power within the relationship . |
| 22 | Within this framework , differentiation can be made between strategic elites , which may have power over society as a whole , and segmental elites ( the terms are Keller 's ) , which are predominant or which vie for predominance in restricted fields . |
| 23 | Yet a person or group may have power by shaping beliefs , values and desires . |
| 24 | When additional work is required for which payment has not been provided in the contract documents , the engineer may have power either to agree new rates for measured work or a fixed price for a defined piece of work . |
| 25 | The trustees may have power to advance capital to A. There is no provision in Part XV to say that if there is a charge under Part XV then there shall not be a charge under any other provision . |
| 26 | Others would be fined on a sliding scale according to their resources , and there would be a general reconciliation in which the King would rule with the aid of a Council of State who would have powers to supervise the militia . |
| 27 | It was possible but not inevitable that the EMF , which would have powers to impose monetary discipline on lax national treasuries , would evolve into a fully-fledged European central bank . |
| 28 | As regards the powers of the EP , the draft did not propose giving the EP the right to initiate legislation ( currently the preserve of the Commission ) but suggested a new category of " framework laws " over which the EP would have powers of " co-decision " with the Council . |
| 29 | The court would have power to dispense with the non-owner 's consent if justified . |
| 30 | At a pre-hearing review the chairman would have power to give a costs warning and to order the payment of a deposit . |