Example sentences of "a [adj] authority [conj] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | This monitoring was needed in order to guarantee to the electors in a local authority that an appropriate service was being provided . |
| 2 | If an Act of Parliament says that A ( who may be a minister or a commission or a local authority or an individual ) shall be the person to settle certain specified questions and that there shall be neither appeal to nor review by any other body or person ( including the courts ) , then A's decisions are unchallengeable so long as ( a ) it is A , not another , who decides , ( b ) A decides those specified questions and not others and ( c ) A does not act in bad faith or with similar impropriety . |
| 3 | There is no reason in principle why a local authority or an organisation such as the NSPCC should not satisfy these criteria and obtain an order against the fund ( R v Greenwich LBC , ex pLovelance and Another [ 1991 ] 3 All ER 511 , CA ) . |
| 4 | Only a local authority or an authorised person can apply for a care order or a supervision order ( s31(1) ) . |
| 5 | One had formerly been an occupational therapy aide with elderly people and then a voluntary day centre manager ; the other had community work qualifications and experience , and had worked both in a local authority and an Age Concern setting . |
| 6 | Local government is both a provider of services to a local authority and an instrument of democratic self-government . |
| 7 | But otherwise the main principles of planning law , laid down in 1909 , were maintained : future development should accord with an approved town planning scheme ; compensation to be payable to landowners injuriously affected ; and betterment to be payable to a local authority when an increase in land values accrues as a result of planning proposals . |