Example sentences of "[adj] authorities the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In each of the cited authorities the court had come to the conclusion that there was no issue proper to be determined . |
| 2 | Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose . |
| 3 | The evacuation of many schools gave military and civil authorities the opportunity to requisition the buildings for their own use . |
| 4 | where it uses in relation to the previous authorities the words ‘ the principal debtor acted as the agent of the creditor in obtaining a security ’ to relate to any formal contractual agency or agency by ostensible authority but was rather another way of saying ‘ they left it to the debtor to obtain the execution of the necessary documents . ’ |
| 5 | A directive shall be binding , as to the result to be achieved , upon each Member State to which it is addressed , but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods . |
| 6 | As was seen above , Article 189 of the EEC Treaty provides that a directive ‘ shall be binding , as to the result to be achieved , upon each Member State to which it is addressed , but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods ’ . |
| 7 | and my Lord the my Lord you 'll see at the bottom of page sixty nine , this is the latest edition just published this summer my Lord , erm at the bottom of page sixty nine you have an extract from the European community treaty which er defines a directive and you will see my Lord says in terms that it leaves to the national authorities the choice of forms the methods , and then if my Lord could read the passage er under that on page seventy |
| 8 | County boroughs totally opted out of the surrounding county council 's affairs , but for the other types of subordinate authorities the situation was complicated because they performed some functions for themselves while other functions in their areas , such as education , were run by the county council . |
| 9 | The agreement will cost the Basque authorities the equivalent of a total of £108 million ( $189 million ) , which is more than has ever been spent on a single cultural project in Bilbao since the city 's decision to create a Fine Art Museum in 1908 . |
| 10 | In Moscow tomorrow we shall discuss with the Russian authorities the way forward on a number of difficult economic questions . |
| 11 | By arrangement with the Soviet authorities the aid would be routed in such a way as to ensure that it " actually reaches those for whom it is intended and does not jeopardize the gradual advance towards normality of supplies in accordance with market rules " . |
| 12 | In the determination of its grant to local authorities the government uses a complex formula which tries to take into account the extent of need for the various services . |
| 13 | of a local authority 's revenue will come from the council tax , and my hon. Friend the Member for Newham , North-West ( Mr. Banks ) said that in some local authorities the percentage will be even lower . |
| 14 | Of all the problems dealt with , the solving of debt problems probably has the most dramatic effect for funders : for Government and local authorities the cost of personal insolvency can be immense if not properly handled ; at the same time the work done by bureaux must be saving private companies considerable sums in legal and administrative costs and in reducing their proportion of ‘ bad debts ’ . |
| 15 | We will give local authorities the powers to develop comprehensive community crime prevention programmes , improve services to victims and encourage Neighbourhood Watch and Safer City Programmes . |
| 16 | And as I said earlier on is how the key to this is how to construct such a policy that would protect the interests of the county in a general environmental sense , give local authorities the freedom in their local plans to set their stall out if that is what they want to do and er whilst avoiding provoking a rash of speculative developments erm er all over the place . |
| 17 | It gives local authorities the right to carry out repairs to reservoirs and charge the owner — and the duty to compile a national register of large reservoirs . |
| 18 | Erm paragraph twenty one , we 'd certainly oppose any move to give local authorities the right to cease homes of travellers erm especially in view of the shortage of the good pitches I that is just totally and I do n't think that that 's on , I hope we can oppose that . |
| 19 | As a result , they frequently delegate to local authorities the right to nominate perhaps 50 to 70 per cent of their tenants if the authorities have provided finance . |
| 20 | ( c ) Registration Section 8 of the 1983 Act thrusts upon various local authorities the duty to appoint a ‘ registration officer ’ whose task it is to prepare and publish each year a register of electors in his area ( ibid , s.9 ) . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman would do well to familiarise himself with the keep warm this winter campaign run by the Scottish Office which has received every support from local authorities the length and breadth of Scotland . |
| 22 | Furthermore , by means of various statutes , e.g. the Fire Safety and Places of Sport Act 1987 , etc. , Parliament has placed in the hands of local authorities the power to control the condition and usage of business premises . |
| 23 | This Act widened the scope of improvement grants , first introduced in 1949 , and gave local authorities the power to declare general improvement areas within which grants covered up to 60 per cent of eligible expenses compared with 50 per cent elsewhere . |
| 24 | The law gives local authorities the power to decide and they , in turn , define the kind of workers they want . |
| 25 | The 1980 Local Government Planning and Land Act gave local authorities the power to pay ‘ special responsibility allowances ’ ( SRAs ) to their leading members ( usually party leaders and committee chairmen ) . |