Example sentences of "[pron] has power " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1979 , however accountability was strengthened with the advent of the fourteen new Commons select committees , each of which has power to examine the expenditure , administration and policy of the main government departments ‘ and associated public bodies ’ . |
| 2 | A public body which has power to construct lavatories can not use that power in order to build a subway under a street . |
| 3 | If that fails , or if the offender breaks his assurance , the Director can take proceedings against him in the Restrictive Practices Court , which has power to order that the course of conduct be abandoned . |
| 4 | These three facilitating conditions are predicated upon the nature of the local political economy-who has power and how it is exercised ; upon the nature of the state , and the interests and ideology of people who serve in government ( e.g. bureaucrats , forest police , or politicians ) . |
| 5 | It 's a ritual , showing who has power . |
| 6 | It implies , however , a recognition that the minority who occupy powerful positions in British society are able to make choices , based neither upon notions of democracy nor upon calculations about who has power , about whom they will listen to or consult . |
| 7 | JEWKES : He is my master and if he bids me do anything I can do I think I ought to do it and let him who has power to command me look to the lawfulness of it . |
| 8 | It fails to see the complex ( and often hidden ) relational aspects of power which effectively make a nonsense of simple statements about who has power . |
| 9 | Its ability to do this depends upon what goes on within the system itself , i.e. who has power , who makes decisions , who implements decisions and so on . |
| 10 | We need , therefore , to examine who has power within society and locate that within the context of the power of the state . |
| 11 | Through such an examination we can see who has power over decisions and which groups and individuals can achieve their aims . |
| 12 | They identify a number of actors involved in the decision-making processes in local government and suggest that the picture of who has power is sometimes not clear . |
| 13 | We have seen how the control of resources , particularly scarce ones , within society will determine who has power . |
| 14 | If Elmer has a right to the inheritance according to a convention of this sort — if he has a right to it according to social conventions about who has power to legislate and how that power is to be exercised and how doubts created by the language are to be settled — then he has a legal right to it , but not otherwise . |
| 15 | and had control over Mrs with his stupid maid , whereas it 's sort of reversed , cos she has power over him cos she brings out character . |
| 16 | He recently joined MENSA with a intelligence rating of 153 , while in the ring he has power in both of his accurate fists . |
| 17 | ‘ He has power over both secular and clerical individuals and freely , according to his will , disposes of the life and property of all . |
| 18 | Under s412(1) ( now TA 1988 , s739 ) the income which is to be taxed as if it were the taxpayer 's is income which he has power to enjoy within the meaning of the section . |
| 19 | He can no more diminish the amount of income which he has power to enjoy by the amount of his expenses than any other taxpayer who chooses to expend his income , however prudently , can claim to be taxed on what is left after the expenditure . |
| 20 | It has power sources , wiring , electricity and lubrication etc . |
| 21 | And it has power , enormous power . |
| 22 | ‘ I can not continue as a member of a body which pretends it has power to make priests without the authority of scripture or tradition , ’ he said . |
| 23 | ‘ There is only one way ’ , he says to Frodo , and it is essential to the story that this should be accepted as true : the Ring can not be kept , it has power over everybody , it has to be destroyed . |
| 24 | It has power in the world of public opinion , if not in any court , because nations are often sensitive to charges that they are violating the rights of their citizens . |
| 25 | It is highly beguiling , but it has power to stifle and to kill . |
| 26 | If the matter can not be resolved by the Court of Appeal , it has power to order a retrial . |
| 27 | It has power to recommend further investigations . |
| 28 | There can therefore be no doubt that it has power to override the refusal of a minor , whether over the age of 16 or under that age but ‘ Gillick competent . ’ |
| 29 | It has power to secure the provision of advice , assistance or representation by entering contracts , but only if the Lord Chancellor directs . |
| 30 | The amendment requires the court to give reasons if it does not make a compensation order in circumstances where it has power to do so . |