Example sentences of "[adj] authority had [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1991 an American salvage company hired by the Austrian authorities had located the wreck of the Lucona . |
| 2 | In mid-December Palestinian sources reported that the Libyan authorities had expelled the Fatah Revolutionary Council , led by Sabri Khalil al Banna ( " Abu Nidal " ) , from its offices in Tripoli , placing Abu Nidal and his closest aides under a form of house arrest . |
| 3 | Council leader John Williams said he was delighted the Labour controlled authority had finished the scheme by Easter as it promised in its manifesto . |
| 4 | There had been plans to introduce a separate currency , in the form of Soviet roubles stamped with a letter " U " ( Ukraine ) for purchasing basic goods , but it was claimed that the Soviet authorities had thwarted the plans at the last minute , forcing the reintroduction of coupons instead . |
| 5 | The grounds of appeal were , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the justices had exercised their discretion to award costs on the wrong principles as it had not been shown that the local authority had acted in bad faith or unreasonable in the performance of its statutory duties or had acted unreasonably in the conduct of the proceedings before the court ; ( 2 ) there were no circumstances which justified the making of the costs order ; ( 3 ) the justice should have found that there were good reasons for the local authority to be concerned about the father 's ability to care for the children , the local authority was not bound to adopt the view of the guardian ad litem and the local authority had communicated the decision not to oppose the father 's application within a reasonable time on receiving the report of the guardian ad litem ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to assume that the change in the view of the local authority amounted to an admission that the views of the local authority had been wrong all the time . |
| 6 | The consequence was that the local authority had to consider the situation of the children , including carrying out an assessment of the prospect of the children making their permanent home with their father who , by now , had a new partner . |