Example sentences of "it [verb] power " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second point is that , when ambiguity increases sharply , that is the time when people who can resolve that ambiguity by setting new organizational values to cope with it gain power . |
| 2 | ‘ is different from other interests because it exercises power or influence in two ways — directly through interest groups and structurally because of the crucial role boards and managers exercise over production , investment and employment decisions which shape the economic and political environment within which Governments make policy ’ . |
| 3 | In further education , it devolves power from local authorities to local self-governing boards . |
| 4 | It has power sources , wiring , electricity and lubrication etc . |
| 5 | And it has power , enormous power . |
| 6 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ There is only one way ’ , he says to Frodo , and it is essential to the story that this should be accepted as true : the Ring can not be kept , it has power over everybody , it has to be destroyed . |
| 8 | It has power in the world of public opinion , if not in any court , because nations are often sensitive to charges that they are violating the rights of their citizens . |
| 9 | It is highly beguiling , but it has power to stifle and to kill . |
| 10 | If the matter can not be resolved by the Court of Appeal , it has power to order a retrial . |
| 11 | It has power to recommend further investigations . |
| 12 | There can therefore be no doubt that it has power to override the refusal of a minor , whether over the age of 16 or under that age but ‘ Gillick competent . ’ |
| 13 | It has power to secure the provision of advice , assistance or representation by entering contracts , but only if the Lord Chancellor directs . |
| 14 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |
| 15 | It has power to co-opt a further member ; at present this member is the committee 's chairman . |
| 16 | It has power to request further information from the parties and to inspect documents at the parties ' premises and failure by the parties to provide the information required or to co-operate in an inspection may cause the four month period to be extended . |
| 17 | THE EAST LANCS Railway scored a double this summer when it granted power distributor NORWEB permission to lay a nest of six , 33Kv cables along a part of the ELR right-of-way , then secured a three-week contract to haul some of the materials by rail to and from the construction site . |
| 18 | It says power . |
| 19 | ‘ It concentrates power in the hands of a few , necessitates a military-style secrecy and undermines the principles of human liberty . |
| 20 | For example , in circumstances where there may be legitimate public concern about the violation of human rights by the new regime , or the manner in which it achieved power , it has not sufficed to say that the announcement of ‘ recognition ’ is simply a neutral formality . |
| 21 | Politics wishes to change reality , it requires power , and thus it is primarily in the service of power … |
| 22 | It creates power , it cocks your wrists to the swing plane , puts you into the same position at the top every time , and stretches the big muscles of the back . |
| 23 | By a notice of appeal dated 6 September 1991 the solicitors appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) under section 6(2) of the Act of 1986 the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of section 3 of the Act to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell and ( b ) under section 61(1) of the Act the court had jurisdiction to order any person other than the contravener who appeared to the court to have been knowingly concerned in the contravention of any rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to repay to investors sums paid by them to Pantell ; ( 2 ) the court had no jurisdiction under sections 6(2) and 61(1) to award claims for compensation for loss against persons knowingly concerned in such contraventions in contrast to sections 6(3) to ( 7 ) and sections 61(3) to ( 7 ) ; ( 3 ) the judge was wrong in law in holding that ( a ) the power of the court under section 6(2) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention to take such steps as the court might direct for restoring the parties to the transaction to the position in which they were before the transaction was entered into and ( b ) the power of the court under section 61(1) to order a person knowingly concerned in the contravention of the rules , regulations or provisions referred to in that section to take such steps as the court might direct to remedy it included power to make a financial award against such person directing payment by that person to individual investors of sums equivalent to the amounts paid by such investors pursuant to the said transaction , neither subsection empowering the court to order restitution by the repayment of moneys outside the possession or control of the person concerned ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law ( a ) in his construction of sections 6(2) and 61(1) in failing to have regard to the principle ‘ generalibus specialia derogant , ’ in particular in holding that there could exist within each of sections 6 and 61 two parallel powers to order financial redress at the suit of the plaintiff , one derived from sections 6(3) and 6(4) and sections 61(3) and 61(4) respectively , which was subject to the limitations set out in those and subsequent subsections , and the other derived from section 6(2) and section 61(1) , which was subject to no such limitations ; ( b ) in rejecting the submission that sections 6 and 61 were essentially procedural and did not create new substantive legal rights and remedies ; and ( c ) in failing to have regard to the fact that the orders sought under paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim required payment to the plaintiff or alternatively into court of moneys recovered thereunder from the solicitors despite the absence of any provisions for such orders in the Act , his dismissal of the summons being inconsistent with his finding that there was no provision in sections 6(2) or 61(1) directing payment into court and that any order under the sections would have to direct repayment of the sum paid to each individual investor who had made the original payment . |
| 24 | This leaves coal in the ground , it burns power in power stations to generate , to generate electricity from gas , waste of a premium fuel . |
| 25 | The Nation ( Bangkok ) reported on Jan. 30 that " two leading Western narcotics experts based in Thailand " had commented that these claims seemed exaggerated and that the military government had been doing little to try to reduce opium production since it seized power in 1988 . |
| 26 | Sometimes they approach language as if it expresses power relations and subjectivity directly , and originates from the very autonomous , fixed subjects whose existence they are challenging . |
| 27 | HyperCard has been a huge success , both because it combines power and ease-of-use so well and because Apple have given the software away bundled with every Macintosh sold since 1987 . |
| 28 | One is how far advanced the Labour Party 's thinking was on the nature of planning it might undertake if it took power at the end of the second world war . |
| 29 | Peaceful demonstrations by students and intellectuals during January constituted the first significant challenge to the ruling Mongolian People 's Revolutionary Party ( MPRP ) since it took power in 1924 . |
| 30 | China was one of the first countries to recognize the SLORC after it took power in 1988 . |