Example sentences of "authorities have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the areas most closely concerned with the inner city , opposition from local authorities has been crucial . |
| 2 | A recurrent theme in this area is how broad the law has always been , and how much the discretion of the authorities has been what has really mattered . |
| 3 | Through schemes , such as the Urban Programme and various training programmes , access to funds for local authorities has been shifted to areas in which they engage in some sort of partnership with the departments of central government . |
| 4 | The power of local education authorities has been reduced whilst additional power has been given to central government and the revised and highly decentralised governing bodies of schools and colleges . |
| 5 | Last month Amnesty International called for all charges against him to be withdrawn and concluded : ‘ At every stage the behaviour of the authorities has been in open defiance of the authority of the courts and the rule of law . ’ |
| 6 | The question whether the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher applies in all its strictness to local authorities has been considered but not decided . |
| 7 | Controlling current spending by local authorities has been central government 's major headache ever since it decided in 1961 that local government expenditure was part of public expenditure and therefore should be controlled by the Treasury . |
| 8 | On the community charge , the funding for local authorities has been increased by 6.1 per cent . |
| 9 | The role of local authorities has been expanded and the ‘ delegate ’ concept of representation adopted in communes and collectives . |
| 10 | The traditional public finance approach to intergovernmental grants ( or grants-in-aid ) which flow from central ( or federal ) government to local ( or state ) authorities has been concerned with the question of what form the grant should take . |
| 11 | It 's not as if the contribution of Labour Councillors to th to the management of Health Authorities has been very er productive . |
| 12 | Health ‘ disaster ’ : A plan by the Northern Regional Health Authority to merge Hartlepool and North Tees Health Authorities has been attacked as ‘ a potential disaster ’ by Hartlepool prospective Labour candidate Peter Mandelson . |
| 13 | He called on their respective governments to cut their public spending by up to 18 per cent , to exercise monetary restraint ( banknote issuing by local authorities having been a major factor in the inflationary spiral of the previous year ) , and to co-operate more fully with national policy decisions . |
| 14 | By 1987 , 55 Urban Programme authorities had been designated ( see Figure 1 , p. xi ) ( DoE and DE , 1987 ) . |
| 15 | These two new houses were paralleled by the lesser houses of local merchants , men who formed a powerful , self-elected oligarchy after the older authorities had been removed . |
| 16 | As we have seen , in a large number of colonies the authorities had been involved in publishing newspapers , Using both the colonial and local languages , they had tried to put over the official point of view , often in an attempt to forestall or counter alternative interpretations and opinions . |
| 17 | Cypriot authorities had been told he had been smuggled from the country . |
| 18 | At least the Spanish authorities had been conducting a professional search . |
| 19 | The County and Borough authorities had been informed that accommodation at the workhouse was too limited for it to be used as a place of detention under the Children 's Act of 1909 . |
| 20 | For the past several days , the warder said , jail authorities had been pestering the police to get more helpers … . |
| 21 | Moreover , once health authorities had been granted powers to ‘ buy in ’ services , then the question of the accountability to local publics of their purchasing decisions was raised . |
| 22 | If the local authorities had been given the money that has been poured into the private sector to be spent on domiciliary packages , more home helps , special care attendance and occupational budgets to provide aids and adaptations for people in their own homes , we could have saved the Government and the country millions of pounds . |
| 23 | Although the US 1988 Indian Gaming Act allowed casinos on reservations only with the agreement of the local state , the authorities had been reluctant to act against the St Regis establishments for fear of violating treaties guaranteeing the sovereignty of the reservation . |
| 24 | The local authorities had been accused by security officials and the Soviet press of laxity or even connivance . |
| 25 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |
| 26 | For example , on the crucial question of the medical condition of the evacuees , which was to cause so much controversy , the Board of Education believed that local authorities had been adequately warned that pediculosis ( head lice ) would be a problem and had been given instructions on how to disinfect children by the use of steam baths ; also that its memorandum Ev . |
| 27 | Kindred spirits reaffirmed loyalties which the authorities had been trying to suppress . |
| 28 | The Bank management declared that changes to the project made by the Indian authorities had been very constructive and justified the Bank 's " continued support " . |
| 29 | US AGENTS voiced disappointment yesterday that only seven members of a Texas religious cult left their barricaded compound on Sunday , saying authorities had been led to believe a significantly greater number would emerge . |
| 30 | In the meantime , central and local authorities have been told to take ‘ immediate ’ steps to stamp out vandalism and sabotage on the railways . |