Example sentences of "authorities [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities made a point of saying that they did not have a training programme because they depended on courses that presented themselves , e.g. : ‘ We always hope to send staff on courses as they are advertised ’ . |
| 2 | Understandably there is reluctance within the authorities to diagnose a child under 5 as having a mental handicap , and there is a move to relax the criteria to include children with developmental delay amongst those eligible for funding . |
| 3 | Third , Prisoner 's Dilemma type situations are another class of cases where authorities make a difference while conforming with the dependence thesis . |
| 4 | Health authorities contract a hospital to treat a specific number of patients . |
| 5 | Some demonstrators attempted to cross the border , prompting the Iranian authorities to issue a protest to the Soviet Union . |
| 6 | In this model bureaucrats in local authorities propose a level of agency funding which is put before the electorate in a referendum . |
| 7 | Hence the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act of 1970 expects local authorities to provide a range and scale of services that in practice they rarely can . |
| 8 | This part of the Act imposes a general duty on local authorities to provide a range of services for children in need within their locality . |
| 9 | Local authorities provide a range of social services under section 2 of the Act , including assistance in the home , meals , equipment and adaptations , telephones , holidays and recreational facilities . |
| 10 | Section 25 of the Children Act 1989 requires local authorities to obtain a youth court order to hold a child in secure accommodation for more than 72 hours in any 28 day period . |
| 11 | In the aftermath of the mid-1989 turmoil in China the UK government and the Hong Kong authorities proposed a package of measures aimed at restoring confidence in the colony ahead of 1997 . |
| 12 | On April 24 the authorities lifted a restriction order placed on former Prime Minister U Nu in December 1989 following his refusal to dissolve his " parallel government " set up in 1988 [ see pp. 37123-24 ] . |
| 13 | A few days after the discovery , local authorities received a call from a woman claiming to be a clairvoyant . |
| 14 | As the first group approached sixteen years Salah tried to get the authorities to open a branch of the primary-school teacher-training college in Huaiwiri so that the girls could continue their education without leaving home . |
| 15 | He was replying to the disclosure by John Ward , the dead woman 's father , that he had written to Mr Rowland earlier this year asking for assistance in persuading the Kenyan authorities to open a murder inquiry . |
| 16 | In fact , many of those authorities operating a patch system have much bigger areas . |
| 17 | The Namibian authorities opened a border post in the Caprivi Strip at Mpelela Island in the Zambezi River on Nov. 1 , describing this as an effort to meet the needs of Zambians travelling to Namibia by river and to stop smugglers of drugs , corn meal and other goods , and presenting the move as being in accordance with a 1990 agreement with Zambia ; the latter , however , claimed that the Namibians had acted unilaterally and that , without a post on its side of the border , Zambia would lose customs revenue from undeclared goods . |
| 18 | Eventually the new authorities dispatched a rescue mission . |
| 19 | Has the Minister clarified with the Data Protection Registrar the question of local authorities compiling a list ? |
| 20 | We will require health authorities to publish a Charter of Services , defining basic entitlements , and provide redress where these are not satisfied . |
| 21 | The trial of Chihana , released on bail on Sept. 8 [ for his arrest in April see p. 38851 ; for his release and subsequent rearrest in July see pp. 38995-96 ] , was deferred until Oct. 12 after his counsel argued that irregularities on the part of the authorities threatened a miscarriage of justice . |
| 22 | Initial Egyptian investigations into the attack revealed little concrete information about the perpetrators of the attack , and on Feb. 7 the authorities imposed a news blackout . |
| 23 | Some local authorities expressed a concern about the potential implications of removing planning controls from shopping , on the grounds that the financial incentives ( discussed below ) would attract into the zones large retail organizations , thus undermining existing shopping patterns . |
| 24 | In 1987 the average cost of accommodating people in bed and breakfast hotels was over £11,000 in London and about £8,000 elsewhere , and in 1987/88 English and Welsh local authorities spent a total of £92 million on bed and breakfast . |
| 25 | Other additional areas that are related to managerial skills , such as publicity , and industrial relations/local authority structure , were listed by a further 15% of authorities , so that this topic in general figured quite highly as one for which a considerable number of authorities perceived a need for external course provision . |
| 26 | In announcing the formal closing of a procedure against the Italian authorities alleging a breach of EC rules on state subsidies , the Commission recalled that the action was prompted by the Rome government 's failure to reply to an original request for information in July 1990 . |
| 27 | It is because the Government would not allow local authorities to appoint a couple of gatekeepers that we face a bill probably in the region of £1.9 billion . |
| 28 | Many health authorities employ a continence adviser who is a registered nurse with further training in managing incontinence . |
| 29 | Thus some authorities employ a team of inspectors while others use a team of advisers or organisers . |
| 30 | Some local authorities publish a list of all their new planning applications in the local paper . |