Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] authority ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | How state governments approach the budget deficits now facing them will determine whether the coming year sees a further round of downgrading of public authorities ' credit ratings . |
| 2 | Introduction of local authorities ' performance indicators under the Citizen 's Charter |
| 3 | The main reason for the decline in housebuilding in the public sector is the strict control of local authorities ' capital spending by the central government , as part of the government 's attempt to control overall public expenditure . |
| 4 | The strict limitation of local authorities ' powers to specific parliamentary approval grew up almost by accident in the nineteenth century as a result of Railway Companies and other private organisations abusing their powers under private Acts of Parliament . |
| 5 | As we can see , these prescriptions relate to the form of local authorities ' accounts . |
| 6 | About 96% of local authorities ' educational expenditure in 1989–90 was current , and 4% capital . |
| 7 | In 1947 the NUT conducted a survey of local authorities ' selection procedures . |
| 8 | When the restriction was lifted from the Senior Chief Inspector 's annual report about examining the effect on maintained schools of local authorities ' financial and finance-linked resources , it became a report about national quality . |
| 9 | For example , in the past two years many applications have been made against local authorities ' handling of assessment and service delivery for children with special educational needs . |
| 10 | The Tribunal hears appeals by prospective residential home owners against local authorities ' refusal to register . |
| 11 | The continual changing of public expenditure targets in real terms , and the confusing changes in grant systems , have played havoc with local authorities ' and services ' capacity to plan . |
| 12 | The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities ' services . |
| 13 | Section 26 gives the Commission power to undertake studies designed to enable it to make recommendations for improving authorities ' ‘ economy , efficiency and effectiveness ’ . |
| 14 | To allow us to compare community care plans without appearing overly judgemental , and to structure our discussion of the part played by care programming in different authorities ' policies for mental health , the rest of this section employs the biological concepts of assimilation and adaptation . |
| 15 | Authors have identified considerable consistency in individual authorities ' spending patterns over time despite the variation between authorities . |
| 16 | But his claim the government had increased the provision for the Children Act in local authorities ' budgets by 14 per cent was greeted with derision from the floor . |
| 17 | We would welcome contact from practitioners , advocates , academics and others who may be able to help us with their advice , ideas , articles and experience ; in particular correspondence from local authorities ' children 's rights officers . |
| 18 | In 1989–90 , 38% of local authority expenditure was financed from domestic and business rates , and the remaining 13% from local authorities ' surpluses on trading , rents and borrowing ( HM Treasury , 1990 , Table 21.4.13 ) . |
| 19 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 20 | Schools and colleges continue to provide the vast majority of candidates ; there were nearly twice as many candidates from local authorities ' community education centres than from the private centres . |
| 21 | September that , in calculating the transfer of funds from local authorities to the funding councils in recognition of their new responsibilities , the resources attributable to those courses for which the LEAs will continue to be responsible will be left within local authorities ' standard spending assessments . |
| 22 | The award , adding £30 million to local authorities ' wage bills , boosts a qualified firefighter 's pay £15 to £305 a week from November . |
| 23 | The same applies to local authorities ' responsibilities under the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act . |
| 24 | As with most of their changes to local authorities ' funding , the government 's aim for LMS is increased accountability , and therefore efficiency . |
| 25 | The award , adding £30m to local authorities ' wages bill , was the lowest produced by the Fire Pay Formula established in 1977 after a nine-week strike . |
| 26 | Using this formula , the Department of the Environment issues guidelines ' on local authorities ' rent levels , and since levels are meant to relate to local house prices , they will vary considerably from one part of the country to another . |
| 27 | The first part of the research will focus on local authorities ' total expenditure , whilst the second principle objective of the research will be to investigate whether the reforms lead to a change in the pattern of service provision . |
| 28 | It contains guidance on arrangements to transfer local authority residential care homes to independent control ; it also gives Directions from the Secretary of State for Health about local authorities ' continuing responsibility for residents in transferred homes whose care was arranged by the local authority under Section 21(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 ( as amended by paragraph 2(1) , Schedule 23 to the Local Government Act 1972 ) and under paragraph 2 , Schedule 8 to the National Health Service Act 1977 . |
| 29 | ACO is also sceptical about local authorities ' abilities to push down the costs . |
| 30 | They have been updated and supplemented by local authorities ' own guidelines , covering procedures , training and pupil-teacher ratios , ranging in Strathclyde 's case from 10-1 for easy hillwalking to 5-1 for walking on difficult ridges . |