Example sentences of "authorities have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authorities have set a limit of one twist per customer per week , which is no way to handle the problem . |
| 2 | In certain circumstances local and health authorities have a duty to organise and pay for funerals . |
| 3 | Local authorities have a duty under Section 46 of the Public Health ( Control of Diseases ) Act 1984 , to arrange the burial or cremation of any person who has died in their area where it appears that no suitable arrangements can be made other than by the local authority . |
| 4 | However , local authorities have no powers to reimburse burial costs where a third party has already arranged a funeral ( but see ( b ) below in relation to deaths occurring in hospitals ) . |
| 5 | Some local authorities only support elderly residents in their own homes , whereas two authorities have no directly provided provision . |
| 6 | some local authorities have institutionalised unlawful practices such as having a second internal review before the case has a chance to go to a Review Board ; |
| 7 | Authorities have themselves acknowledged fears that ‘ counter-revolutionaries ’ , still at large despite a nationwide crackdown on dissent , might try to sabotage the anniversary . |
| 8 | Apparently no known tank force could break through a six-lane snarl-up , so the authorities have to be able to whistle up a traffic jam within minutes . |
| 9 | In the meantime , central and local authorities have been told to take ‘ immediate ’ steps to stamp out vandalism and sabotage on the railways . |
| 10 | Many authorities have advisers rather than inspectors indicating a belief in a supportive , rather than judgemental , role . |
| 11 | But many authorities have either not been able to find suitable sites or have not complied with the ruling . |
| 12 | PRAGUE ( Reuter ) — Czechoslovak authorities have released a human rights activist , Miroslav Kusy , who was held on charges of subversion . |
| 13 | But the threatened drop in readership for 1990 is now so great that the the authorities have extended the date by a month . |
| 14 | The authorities have been grappling with the problem for a decade , but still the cars choke the cobbled streets . |
| 15 | The Kenyan authorities have failed to respond to inquiries by British police , via Interpol , about John Graham Garrod 's death , Southwark Coroner 's Court in south London , was told yesterday . |
| 16 | Stock broking firms that are involved in the issue or act for the authorities have been banned in the run up to flotation from issuing any research . |
| 17 | Claims that the West German authorities have mishandled inquiries into the Lockerbie bombing have caused ill feeling between officials . |
| 18 | The football authorities have debated endlessly about the impact of these changes on their game . |
| 19 | The football authorities have not been the only ones to agonize over the impact of television on sport . |
| 20 | First , planning authorities have gradually begun to use their powers to serve legally enforceable notices requiring owners to carry out repairs to seriously neglected listed buildings . |
| 21 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 22 | Few middle management have direct experience of the service , need has not been quantified nor fed through to planners , very few local authorities have involved parents , let alone clients . |
| 23 | Authorities have begun to find that multi-agency cooperation in other fields — notably racial violence — need not be a mask for police interference . |
| 24 | PAKISTANI authorities have for the first time begun arresting farmers in the North West Frontier Province who have been found planting opium for next year 's harvest . |
| 25 | Many health authorities have been refusing to pay for treatment , arguing that divers should take out decompression insurance . |
| 26 | All 10 water authorities have been oversubscribed , but interest has varied between regions . |
| 27 | THE English soccer authorities have moved with uncharacteristic speed to try to minimise possible fall-out from the World Cup meeting of England and Holland , the European teams whose supporters are most associated with hooliganism , in the Sardinian capital of Cagliari next summer . |
| 28 | Housing authorities have a general duty to house ‘ vulnerable ’ people but a recent survey by the National Children 's Home found that only 50 per cent of authorities would classify as vulnerable a young homeless person with no parents and no support . |
| 29 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 30 | The church and the French diplomatic authorities have asked the federal police to take over the investigations , but the state police have already arrested two men and accused them of the crime . |