Example sentences of "[art] power of [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | Authors should have the power of veto over blurbs — the book deserved a better one than this . |
| 2 | The MoD has the power of veto over all British arms exports . |
| 3 | Suggestions in the bill for an independent panel of experts to be given the power of veto over the research were rejected . |
| 4 | Henry VII instigated changes which included reducing the power of nobility over the countryside and extending the duties of the Justices of the Peace . |
| 5 | Do they derive from the power of men over women in the domestic arena and/or the labour market , or do they reflect the wishes of the carers themselves , or the assumptions about sex roles embedded in social policies or the ideology of sex-role stereotyping and prevailing ideas of women 's proper place … |
| 6 | All these birds have lost the power of flight over millions of years . |
| 7 | This case , in effect , turns on whether the family proceedings court can keep the power of review over a care order by making directions in relation to the care order . |
| 8 | It is irrelevant to argue , as Robert Kilpatrick does , that the GMC has no power of regulation over unqualified practitioners . |
| 9 | Yet de Gaulle had given the Community a shock and under the ‘ Luxembourg Compromise ’ he retained a power of veto over future important decisions . |
| 10 | An innkeeper has a lien for his charges upon the traveller 's goods brought to the inn , and , contrary to the usual rule , has by statute been given a power of sale over such goods . |
| 11 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 12 | In Kenmare v IRC [ 1958 ] AC 267 , it was held that a power of appointment over the entire trust fund was a power to revoke or otherwise determine the settlement . |