Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] by the [adj] authorities " in BNC.
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| 1 | All around him , the other England players gradually acclimatised to their new surroundings , pleasantly suprised by the facilities laid on by the Indian authorities . |
| 2 | British Nuclear Fuels has always denied that its operations cause the sort of dangers alleged by its critics , and affirmed that its discharges and exposure levels are kept within the limits laid down by the regulatory authorities . |
| 3 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 4 | An airlift of 14,087 Ethiopian Jews — widely known as Falashas ( a name they rejected ) — was carried out by the Israeli authorities on May 24-25 , in anticipation of the fall of the Ethiopian government . |
| 5 | A large proportion of the expenditure in areas such as transport , law and order and education is carried out by the local authorities . |
| 6 | Our own central social services inspectorate will be not only carrying out its own inspections , but also checking on the quality and systems of the arm's-length inspectorates that have been set up by the local authorities . |
| 7 | The jail was the scene of a hunger strike during the War of Independence after it was taken over by the military authorities in 1915 . |
| 8 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |