Example sentences of "[art] power [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Japanese officials plead that they do not have the power to carve up the market in this way . |
| 2 | But the words on the page did n't have the power to blot out the crack of hunting guns she was beginning to hear again inside her head , nor make her forget the sight of the blood trails on the hot plain . |
| 3 | In Britain , conflict was most severe prior to the First World War , when the power to call out the police and troops lay in the hands of local employer/magistrate , and occasions like the General Strike of 1926 when fears of a worker revolution were aroused . |
| 4 | In the case of some functions Whitehall has the power to take over the duties of a local authority if it fails to carry out its statutory obligations . |
| 5 | In either type of case the Director of Public Prosecutions has the power to take over the proceedings at any stage , either by conducting them himself or discontinuing them . |