Example sentences of "[adj] powers [to-vb] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's meeting of the planning sub-committee gave Stephen Tapper , director of development services , delegated powers to order the removal of ugly advertising displays . |
| 2 | Later , the Presidential Council ( which was politically ineffective ) was replaced by a Security Council ( responsible for internal law and order and external security ) , while the Federation Council was given enhanced powers to meet the demands of the republics . |
| 3 | Even though I was still an innocent youth , Old Shallot had met the most fierce and sinister of warlocks , magicians and witches : men who used dark powers to unhinge the mind of their opponents . |
| 4 | The peasants were authorized to parcel out the private estates while legal ownership of all land was vested in the State ; factory committees were given broad powers to vet the actions of management ; the minorities were granted the right of self-determination ; each regiment was authorized to negotiate armistice terms . |
| 5 | But the Committee has no legal powers to prevent the release of new organisms — a power which is available to the control bodies which operate in the United States . |
| 6 | Although it is not mentioned in the Act , the Government intended to act as an agent of the Government of India , by using its compulsory powers to purchase the site of the India Office and sell it back to the Indian Government . |
| 7 | In addition , Pt III of the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) gives the Director General powers to seek the cessation of business activities detrimental to consumers ( s34(1) of FTA 1973 ) . |
| 8 | The decision in Lambeth LBC v. Secretary of State for Social Services where Woolf J struck down the minister 's decision to use his statutory powers to suspend the members of an area health authority and to appoint commissioners in their place was strongly interventionist . |
| 9 | By then , the Cold War was well under way and it was strategically expedient for the western powers to ensure the permanence of a stable anti-communist regime on Europe 's southern flank . |
| 10 | The most controversial of the proposals aimed to ( i ) reduce spending on education ; ( ii ) grant the government new powers to reduce the salaries of state employees and judges and to abolish security of tenure for civil servants with five years ' service ; ( iii ) end banking secrecy to allow the government to tackle tax evasion ; ( iv ) suspend a provision forbidding the government from collecting tax revenue in the year in which the tax was introduced ; and ( v ) reform pension schemes . |
| 11 | The Chilvers Report on School Teachers ' Pay & Conditions ( 1990 ) points towards far-reaching changes which give governing bodies considerable discretionary powers to enhance the salaries of individual teachers . |
| 12 | ‘ Under the Water Act 1989 , ’ commented the magazine ENDS , ‘ the NRA 's main powers to prevent the entry of these pesticides into water sources from diffuse discharges will only be exercisable if the Secretary of State chooses to designate water protection zones in the areas concerned . |