Example sentences of "power [vb pp] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the Act provides for the appointment by the Prime Minister of a Tribunal with very limited powers to regulate the way in which Ministers use the very extensive powers given to them under the Act . |
| 2 | If they desired that the should stay and that the crown should retain the powers given to it by the constitution he should be informed . |
| 3 | The ultra vires doctrine was used by the courts to keep corporate bodies within the narrowly defined powers granted to them by the statute or charter of incorporation conferring corporate identity upon them . |
| 4 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 5 | The SIB has wide powers granted to it by the Secretary of State under the FSA , and has a broad authority in enforcing the Act ( and can override the decisions of the SROs ) . |
| 6 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 7 | in the exercise of the intervention powers delegated to it by the Secretary of State ( as to which see section 97 of the Act ) . |
| 8 | Under the treaty , the USSR would be a " sovereign federative state formed as a result of voluntary unification of republics , and exercising the degree of political power given to it by the parties to the treaty " . |
| 9 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 10 | These prominent individuals , the populists of island life , cast in , and ready to accept , the role of ‘ men of the people ’ as a means of acquiring the power denied to them within the more formal mechanisms of local political life , were ready to add housing to their existing concerns . |