Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun sg] [prep] power [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge , Massachusetts-based Spinnaker Software Corp has now completed the acquisition of Power Up Software Inc for $18.5m in cash , plus the assumption of some debt : the acquisition was financed through the purchase of preferred stock by Harvard Management Co , which bought $23m of series B preferred stock redeemable at the company 's option and convertible into shares of common stock at a rate of $1.50 or $2.25 per share . |
| 2 | The British , having no territorial ambitions in the Balkans , and being anxious to preserve the balance of power in Europe , tended to favour the continued existence of the Turkish empire in Europe . |
| 3 | After the Glorious Revolution William was able to commit England to a continental alliance designed to contain the expansionism of Louis XIV 's France , and to preserve the balance of power in Europe between the Bourbons and the Habsburgs . |
| 4 | It may be that long experience of minorities encouraged them to feel that they could cope better with an absentee ruler than one who upset the balance of power at home . |
| 5 | It might be comforting to see the balance of power in the hands of the defence rather than the offence — but there is no assurance it would stay there . |
| 6 | That case concerned the exercise of powers under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 . |
| 7 | That case concerned the exercise of powers under Part II of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 . |
| 8 | We have examined the concept of power within organisations and we now need to see how it is exercised . |
| 9 | Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify . |
| 10 | And I hate the God of power on |
| 11 | Second , any change in the existing structure might affect the distribution of power between the two rival communities . |
| 12 | However , the concern to increase intra-party democracy and change the balance of power within the Labour Party bespeaks of a profound commitment to create a kind of democracy in Britain very different from that entrenched in the established constitutional set-up and different from that desired by the constitutional authorities and the Alliance who both wish to see legal limits on Parliament as well as a revival of the autonomy of parliamentary government itself . |
| 13 | It would also facilitate the devolution of power to the regions . |
| 14 | New Deal America , Fascist Italy and the Communist Soviet Union alike demonstrated the convergence of power into the hands of a new organization-based elite , faceless and impersonal . |
| 15 | The collapse of industrial militancy after the ‘ Winter of Discontent ’ in 1978 and the defeat of the Labour government in the election of May 1979 had tipped the balance of power in the Right-Ons ' favour . |
| 16 | The Democrats achieved their best ever showing in the general election — polling 11 per cent of the vote — and retained the balance of power in the federal Senate . |
| 17 | Acceptance of the assumptions contained in this model of bureaucratic-legislative relations leads to a number of policy prescriptions for the structure of the public sector that are designed to redress the imbalance of power between these two parts of the governmental machine . |
| 18 | How has the balance of power between the state and the universities , and between the colleges and the universities , shifted over time ? |
| 19 | As currently envisaged , " stage three " involved the transfer of powers to a European central bank and the creation of a single European currency ( rather than a " hard ecu " used in parallel with existing European currencies as proposed by the UK — see p. 37969 ) . |
| 20 | THE SPECTRE of proportional representation paving the way to power for extremist minorities , including fascists , was raised by Mr Baker , the Home Secretary , last night . |
| 21 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 22 | It was also a source of fees for more distant associates and although such relationships were more vulnerable to dynastic change , because less bound up with the territorial dominance of the lord of Middleham , some did nevertheless survive the transfer of power in 1471 . |
| 23 | AN Australian morals campaigner whose small party holds the balance of power in the New South Wales Parliament today threatened to block all legislation unless the state government abandoned planned gay rights laws . |
| 24 | However in other circumstances , especially when the seller has a degree of power through being able to meet buyer requirements better than competition , the seller may be able to trade concessions from the buyer . |
| 25 | It was not in the king 's interest to associate himself with a movement which at most would merely ensure the removal from power of one magnate clique and its replacement by another . |
| 26 | He starts , for example , by castigating the absence of power from the economists ' models : instead . |
| 27 | Foreign diplomats said the lack of a further reshuffle after a meeting of the central advisory commission meant Deng had been unable to persuade other party elders to retire to smooth the transfer of power to his heir . |
| 28 | It is just unfortunate that reality obliges him , instead , to contemplate the tiresome possibility that the Liberal Democrats hold the balance of power in a Parliament in which neither Tory nor Labour parties have an overall majority . |
| 29 | Possession of the box conferred a kind of power on the wielder — which was that anyone , confronted with the hypnotic glass eye , would submissively obey the most peremptory orders about stance and expression . |
| 30 | He welcomed the return to power of Soviet President Gorbachev . |