Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be approved by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Local Government Act , 1972 , allowed local authorities to choose between district auditors and private auditors ( who needed to be approved by the secretary of state ) but the Local Government Finance Act , 1982 , removed an authority 's right to choose its own auditor . |
| 2 | All details of the ballet had to be approved by the Club as he went along . |
| 3 | All legislation had to be approved by the Legislative Council , but the Governor could control this body by ordering the official majority to vote in a certain way . |
| 4 | On Sept. 28 the Volkskammer elected Joachim Gauck ( Alliance " 90/Greens ) as the special commissioner for handling Stasi files ; his appointment had to be approved by the West German government . |
| 5 | This meant that the book not only had to pass general political censorship , commonly known as glavlit , the main obstacle for works of fiction ; it also had to be approved by the relevant government institutions , the Ministry of Atomic Energy , whose senior officials were named by Medvedev as being responsible for the accident . |
| 6 | She could n't understand why I needed to lodge in London at all , but insisted that any accommodation I settled on had to be approved by the university authorities . |