Example sentences of "[adj] authorities ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a confrontation on Oct. 24 over the Azerbaijani authorities ' decision to appoint Siavush Mustafayev as the new Interior Minister of the autonomous republic of Nakhichevan . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Over time , the dominant influence on the nominal size of the government bond market will be the public authorities ' need to borrow and the means by which this need is met . |
| 5 | Authors have identified considerable consistency in individual authorities ' spending patterns over time despite the variation between authorities . |
| 6 | Further doubts have been raised about the future of the THORP reprocessing plant at Sellafield by the Japanese authorities ' decision to abandon plutonium transports by sea [ see above ] and to scale down their nuclear-energy programme . |
| 7 | This was the source of the central authorities ' difficulty in making adequate assessments . |
| 8 | Gorbachev on Dec. 1 decreed that republican legislation which infringed the central authorities ' supremacy in defence matters was null and void . |
| 9 | Like most radio services , paging is limited by the regulatory authorities ' allocation of frequencies , which tend to differ from country to country . |
| 10 | One direct result of the nuclear authorities ' assumptions on the remote possibility of catastrophic accidents , however , was that its plans for dealing with an emergency were consequently limited . |
| 11 | The blockade had been mounted after rumours that the true Baku death toll was being concealed by the military authorities ' dumping of bodies of victims in the Caspian Sea . |
| 12 | Both central and local government have their own contracts , including some individually tailored to suit particular authorities ' needs or views . |
| 13 | Wave of strikes upsets Yugoslav authorities ' austerity drive . |
| 14 | 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 ] . |
| 15 | In the days following the crash controversy arose over the Indian authorities ' refusal to allow European investigators access to either the " black box " cockpit voice recordings or the digital flight recorder . |
| 16 | On Aug. 29 the Armenian authorities ' plans to disarm the militias were thrown into crisis . |
| 17 | The figures show that in 1990 , there were 90,843 people over the age of 65 supported by local authorities in all types of accommodation ( of whom 87,652 were in their own or other authorities ' homes ) . |
| 18 | The Russian decree , forbidding export of strategic commodities from Russia ( particularly diamonds , metals , oil , gas and uranium ) without the Russian authorities ' approval , invalidated USSR export agreements with foreign partners , but leaders had since stated that existing contracts would be honoured and only future deals vetted . |
| 19 | The latest tactic in the South African authorities ' battle with black squatters is to arrest the shack dwellers for trespassing and then offer to drop the charges provided they demolish their own homes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | If it was to be provided in addition to principal repayments in the revenue account , then local authorities ' capital would increase . |
| 22 | Finally , the 1989 Local Government and Housing Act introduced a new system for financing and controlling local authorities ' capital expenditure . |
| 23 | Under the 1988 Local Government Finance Act , the local authorities ' money now comes from three main sources . |
| 24 | Secondly , that I think Ryedale was under the impression that Policy E two would n't affect local authorities ' choice of allocated sites but that it was a policy to apply outside of developing units and those sites we wish to allocate in local plan and not that was going to restrict our choice , in our case in those sites . |
| 25 | The local authorities ' functions would be in the planning , coordination , regulation and finance of community care , rather than its direct provision . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As we can see , these prescriptions relate to the form of local authorities ' accounts . |
| 28 | Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley , then junior health minister , felt local authorities ' contracts with private agencies would be enough to protect clients . |
| 29 | Introduction of local authorities ' performance indicators under the Citizen 's Charter |
| 30 | The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities ' services . |