Example sentences of "power [to-vb] [prep] any [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Southport Conference in 1934 it was agreed : That united action with the Communist Party or organisations ancillary or subsidiary thereto without the sanction of the National Executive Committee is incompatible with membership of the Labour Party , and that the N.E.C. seeks full disciplinary powers to deal with any case or cases that may arise . |
| 2 | That the Select Committee have power to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House , to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom and to report from day to day the Minutes of Evidence taken before it . |
| 3 | The risk , with such a broad approach , is that one might end up making generalisations that were too broad and had little power to predict with any accuracy the intonation that a speaker would use in a particular context . |
| 4 | He was also given the power to convict on any charge within his jurisdiction , even if another offence was originally specified on the charge sheet . |
| 5 | Not only is he generally responsible for the system but he also receives all appeals from refusals of permission , and has the power to call in any application for decision by himself rather than leave it with the district council . |