Example sentences of "[noun sg] power [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , going back to the shires … harnessing horse power to clear the woods . |
| 2 | You will need to have staying power to complete the examinations successfully — it normally takes at least 3 years . |
| 3 | The man had to have great financial resources and staying power to follow the Girl if she went on tour . |
| 4 | Secondly , the prerogative power to defend the realm in face of an emergency was used to raise money for the navy . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal also declared that the Crown had ‘ a prerogative power to keep the peace ’ . |
| 6 | They require labour , an object on which labour is expended , and a means of labouring , as well as involving the expenditure of labour power to transform the object of labour into the product , knowledge . |
| 7 | Provider power to shape the service also means that the NHS has been unresponsive to central policy direction and strategic planning . |
| 8 | The Once-Over tillage system was one of the earliest attempts to use engine power to reduce the number of cultivations needed to make a seedbed . |
| 9 | In addition to the statutory procedures described above , the Queen 's Bench Division ( QBD ) of the High Court enjoys a common law power to control the operation of inferior courts and tribunals in certain circumstances by way of judicial review . |
| 10 | The provisos and conditions for re-entry by the landlord for breach of covenant or non-payment of rent by the tenant are designed to give the landlord power to terminate the lease . |
| 11 | Section 125(1) gives the court power to dismiss the petition , adjourn the winding-up petition hearing , make an interim order or any other order it thinks fit . |
| 12 | Subsection ( 7 ) gives the court power to require the contravener to furnish accounts or other information for the purposes of applications made under subsection ( 3 ) . |
| 13 | Revenues from the bauxite are used to service the debt incurred to build the dam which provides the TNCs with the cut price power to smelt the ore . |
| 14 | He responded with policies that restricted the franchise and gave the governor power to manipulate the composition of the lower legislative house . |
| 15 | In a more formal way we can state that fundamental rights which protect individual autonomy comprise immunities against state interference whereas the right to enforce a contract asserts a claim to harness state power to control the actions of another . |
| 16 | Amendment twenty gives the Secretary of State power to increase the number of police authority members above sixteen . |
| 17 | Alan was a fast , tenacious and clever , blond striker who joined the Palace in October 1972 when Bert Head was desperately seeking scoring power to keep the Palace in the 1st Division . |
| 18 | But yesterday Premier John Major again ruled out sending troops or air power to end the atrocities . |
| 19 | He proposed that Britain used air power to remove the artillery positions surrounding the airport in Sarajevo . |
| 20 | So what I 'm hoping that this Council will do is send a message up to White Hall that this is an abuse of executive power to stifle the challenges of t to the authority . |
| 21 | Section 1(2) of the 1921 Act gave the Treasury power to direct the C. and A.G. to examine vouchers in more detail — the new Act has withdrawn this power . |
| 22 | Yet this was not the only source of Home Office power to supply the hardware which the local police authority did not want to have . |