Example sentences of "has [art] power " in BNC.

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1 In Fearless Frank , Phil Kaufman 's first solo feature , Voight played a country bumpkin who comes to Chicago , gets shot by mobsters , and wakes up to find he has the powers of a superman .
2 It has the powers to investigate the impact of central government actions on economy , efficiency and effectiveness of a local authority .
3 The Government has wisely ensured that it has the powers , under section 116 of the Planning and Compensation Act , to amend this regime as it sees fit .
4 The attendance of witnesses may be compelled , and the district judge has the powers of the circuit judge as to discovery and inspection of documents and the conduct of the case and has limited powers to commit .
5 Using or taking as representing is a mental act , and it presupposes that the mind has the power of seeing generality in things , by seeing the class ( or form ) in the particular .
6 Each sector director looks at his business on a national level , ignoring regional boundaries , and has the power to deploy all his resources to the best commercial advantage .
7 Might I suggest to whoever has the power — the first ascentionist , the local guidebook compilers , that this and any other racist names are changed .
8 Much as we found originally , it handles quite neutrally at modest speeds , understeers progressively beyond that , but always has the power to boot the tail away .
9 In the meantime all those due to appear in the FA Cup third round in the New Year have received a letter from Lancaster Gate reminding them that the FA has the power to throw them out of the competition if their players become involved in mass brawls .
10 No existing institution has the power to encapsulate and carry out policies , so we will need new ones .
11 Each of them has the power to decide immediately to stop purchasing tuna caught by fishing on dolphins .
12 But what of Serbia , which has the power to wreck any deal cobbled together by the others ?
13 But the assembly also has the power — never used — to amend the constitution .
14 Only the National Assembly has the power to amend the constitution or vote itself out of office — an unlikely prospect given that only 50 or so assemblymen have accepted the government 's offer of a $175,000 tax-free retirement pension .
15 Prima facie such a corporation has the power to do with its property all such acts as an ordinary person can do , and to bind itself to such contracts as an ordinary person can bind himself to .
16 In the United States , a ninety-day notice of a strike in health care is required and the President has the power to impose an eighty-day cooling-off period .
17 Like Hannah she is angry at the ideal presented to her by the advertising world , as she feels it has nothing to do with her , yet still has the power to make her feel dissatisfied .
18 There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ .
19 It lays down that loyalty to the nation — and in established States , the State — ought to take priority over all other loyalties , including that to the family , and that the crime of disloyalty is treason , the punishment for which is frequently death ( that is , the nation has the power of life and death over its members ) .
20 The Commissioner is appointed by the Prime Minister on terms determined by the Prime Minister , and reports to the Prime Minister who has the power to censor his or her report for the purposes of publication .
21 St Augustine came to the conclusion that we can measure time only if the mind has the power of holding within itself the impression made by things as they pass by even after they are gone .
22 The mind has the power of distending itself into the future by means of anticipation and the past by means of memory .
23 Saudi Arabia , accounting for almost half of the Middle East 's proven oil reserves and over a quarter of world proven reserves , has the power to insist upon its rôle as OPEC 's swing producer .
24 One of the most highly prized plants of ancient China was the mo-lu-hwa , a species of jasmine ; just one bloom has the power to perfume a whole room .
25 Conversely , you may be entitled to disobey an instruction which management ostensibly has the power to give .
26 that it appears to my Lords that this space of ground , including property in Downing-Street which the Board of Works has the power to appropriate to the purposes of public offices , will be sufficient for any new buildings which it is at present desirable to commence in that locality .
27 Therefore from a local authority 's point of view action under section 100 of the Public Health Act 1936 in respect of a statutory nuisance would be more advantageous than the issue of a discontinuance order because the court , on finding a statutory nuisance , has the power to issue an injunction closing the premises down without compensation should it consider that the only way of abating the odour nuisance .
28 The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports .
29 This is simply a term for the major reflex which has the power to control all the other reflexes so as to direct the body in a coordinated and balanced way .
30 The mind has the power to produce health , as well as illness , and ways in which its healing powers can be harnessed are described here .
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