Example sentences of "[verb] by the [adj] authority " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are dominated by the local authority within whose boundaries the park lies ; for example , Devon administers the Dartmoor National Park . |
| 2 | In Scotland the NNDR is also ‘ linked to the Retail Price Index , but non-domestic rate revenue [ is ] retained by the local authority , rather than being pooled and redistributed ’ ( Blair 1988a:6 ) . |
| 3 | In Manchester , the Clyne House nursery school , then occupied by the military authorities , was also severely damaged , and the main school building was hit by a bomb which went through its roof but which fortunately failed to explode . |
| 4 | Last year in Harlow , the national anthem was forbidden by the local authority at council entertainments . |
| 5 | Will the Minister release MOD votes to allow local authorities , in collaboration with the MOD , to bring empty housing owned by the local authorities and the MOD up to acceptable standards and then transfer it to local authority control for the express purpose of providing homes to ex-service personnel ? |
| 6 | ‘ It takes all the pressure off us and we can now start to play rugby again , ’ a representative from Ebbw Vale , whose ground is owned by the local authority , said . |
| 7 | In HELP schemes the development took place on land formerly owned by the local authority and sold on favourable terms in return for the acquisition of some of the new dwellings by the local authority for its rented stock . |
| 8 | Cockling gangs have been turned away when they arrive without council permits to take vehicles on the shore , which is owned by the local authority . |
| 9 | Firstly on the second page , number fifty eight , the Education Act in the middle of page one nine four four , refers to schools used and maintained by the local authority . |
| 10 | Language teachers , impressed by the apparent authority of science , follow suit and try to teach by means of operant conditioning . |
| 11 | In November 1956 the property was sequestrated by the Egyptian authorities and in April 1957 the sequestrator sold the property to TEDO , an Egyptian organisation . |
| 12 | The coup was apparently neither instigated nor expected by the Soviet authorities , and it brought a regime to power which was bitterly divided by factional differences . |
| 13 | The Kosovo Provincial Assembly , which had been dissolved by the Serbian authorities in June , was re-formed unilaterally by 111 of its ethnic Albanian , Turkish and Moslem deputies at a secret session on Sept. 7 in the village of Kacanik . |
| 14 | The cost of installing these features and retiling the remainder of the roof was assisted by a Repairs Grant provided by the local authority . |
| 15 | Mr Ward has consistently refused to be interviewed by the British authorities investigating the Guinness affair . |
| 16 | When she was rescued by the local authorities and given her present welfare flat , she asked that her address be kept a secret . |
| 17 | As demarcated by the local authority for planning and research purposes , Dunrossness is not a geographical base for any socially identifiable collectivity . |
| 18 | Gruinard Island is prominent off-shore : this was commandeered by the military authorities during the last war for experiments in chemical weapons , the ground being so contaminated that approaches to it were forbidden for forty years afterwards , the ban only recently being lifted . |
| 19 | We have been instructed by the Malawian authorities who are responsible for our fees and nobody else is . ’ |
| 20 | That fact made nonsense of the description ‘ quota hoppers ’ applied by the British authorities to the applicants ' vessels and accentuated the breach of their rights under those provisions of the Act of Accession 1985 . |
| 21 | In another earlier incident , a former Cuban air force officer , Orestes Lorenzo Peres , who had fled to the USA with his MiG-23 jet in September 1991 , returned to Cuba on Dec. 19 in a light plane , evading detection by air defence systems , and then flew back to the USA with his wife and two children , who had been prevented by the Cuban authorities from joining him . |
| 22 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 23 | If thirty days elapse from the date on which one of the parties received a proposal submitted according to the first item without the parties agreeing to appoint the one arbitrator , his appointment is done by the appointing authority which the parties agreed to name . |
| 24 | 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 ] . |
| 25 | On archaeological sites , pits are frequently found that were used for the disposal of household refuse that would nowadays be put in a dustbin , collected by the municipal authorities , and taken to a communal rubbish tip . |
| 26 | " Celebrations " were organized by the Chinese authorities in May 1991 on the 40th anniversary of the " liberation " of Tibet . |
| 27 | Basically , this scheme uses half the point blocks built by the local authority in the early 1950s in this location . |
| 28 | The proportion would have been even higher in the Pennyland Estate in west Thurso , for it was built by the nuclear authority specifically for incomers . |
| 29 | Four former South African police officers were sought by the Namibian authorities to testify at the trial , but had refused to come forward , despite being offered immunity from prosecution . |
| 30 | Their Lordships are both surprised and disappointed that , right up to the time when this appeal was heard by the Board , no information has been forthcoming to explain how the addendum came into existence and came to be typed , or whether this further statement was sought by the investigating authority or volunteered by the witness . |