Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adj] powers " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the counties a number of urban areas had grown up and many of these had been granted Charters of Incorporation giving them varying powers of local administration . |
| 2 | Police are already monitoring the movements of travellers convoys and the exclusion order will give them widespread powers of arrest . |
| 3 | The British Medical Association was founded in 1832 and the Medical Registration Act of 1858 granted doctors a monopoly on the practice of medicine and gave them important powers of self-government . |
| 4 | However , he is protected by Sigmar , the patron deity of the Empire , giving him tremendous powers as explained below . |
| 5 | Azhag possessed a strange iron crown which appeared to give him sorcerous powers . |
| 6 | When the crisis broke , Baldwin showed annoyance at having his holiday in France interrupted , and deputed Chamberlain to act for him , giving him full powers but no instructions . |
| 7 | When Chinese gun batteries bombarded the islands in late 1953 , Eisenhower secured a Congressional resolution ( January 1954 ) granting him sweeping powers to protect the Nationalist Chinese . |
| 8 | Without revealing that both ships had been secretly assisting South Vietnamese commando raids on the North , Johnson called upon Congress to pass a resolution granting him sweeping powers to act against North Vietnam . |
| 9 | It helped that they believed in his faked war record and legends such as that the religious leader Gregorio Aglipay inserted a slither of wood into Marcos 's back before the Bataan campaign in 1942 , allegedly giving him magic powers . |
| 10 | Trustee John Routly said : ‘ The Trust has , therefore , proposed to the '64 Company that when this Amending Order is made the Ffestiniog would enable the '64 Company to construct the Pen-y-Mount-Pont Creoser section and give them running powers over that section . |
| 11 | Announced as the strongest environmental protection agency in Europe , Parliament gave it extensive powers . |
| 12 | Maybe they simply see the ark as a visible guarantee of God 's presence and of victory , but that understanding of it is no better , for then they turn it into an idol , ascribe to it magical powers , and leave us asking why they did not take it into battle in the first place . |
| 13 | It is as if the creation of a regulatory bureaucracy carries with it implicit powers to achieve agency goals . |
| 14 | The vacancies came to light as the Department of the Environment announced a reorganisation of Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , prior to giving it new powers in the ‘ green ’ Bill . |
| 15 | To imagine that the Labour leaders could have thwarted and de-mobilised such a force for all these years is to attribute to them superhuman powers . |
| 16 | ‘ I accept , of course , that judges must be vigilant concerning the liberty of the subject ; but , if Parliament gives them discretionary powers , as section 13 of the Act of 1960 seems to do , it is not competent for them to refuse to exercise those powers . |
| 17 | But because the way in which the 1988 Act was drafted appears to give them overriding powers , other teachers and the ancillary staff of any school are bound to ask for consultation about any staffing changes . |