Object

• decision-making: It can devolve decision-making from central government to the people of the region.

• responsibility: We are going to devolve responsibility for carrying through these aims.

• parliament: Elections for Devolved Nations The UK's devolved parliaments are still in their infancy.

• assembly: For the devolved assemblies, sustainability is a major issue.

Modifying Another Word

• largely: The commissioning role of health authorities will largely devolve to Primary Care Groups or Trusts.

Present participle complement

• accord: The fixed term will devolve according to her will or under the intestacy laws if she did not make a will.

Adjective complement

• most: By 1989, Graham Day had devolved most of his Rover duties to George Simpson.

Modifying Another Word

• executively: Scottish Executive Ministers also exercise " executively devolved " functions.

• newly: We are determined to have input into the matters affecting older people in the newly devolved National Assembly for Wales.

• locally: Certainly it could be, much funding in schools is locally devolved and could be spent in this area.

• fully: We have already strengthened the Wales Council, providing it with fully devolved policy powers.

• highly: However, it involves both managing a large IT procurement and imposing change on the highly devolved NHS.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: Transport policy, for example, could not be devolved down to this level.

Preposition: in

• respect: Authority is devolved in this respect to the School Quality Committee from the Business School Board of Studies.

Preposition: from

• center: Power is being devolved from the center to front-line staff, giving them the power and flexibility to deliver.

Preposition: by

• authority: Quality towns and parishes will also be central to the management and delivery of services devolved by the principal authority, with funding.