The phrase "authorities to dig" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where permission or authorization is being granted to officials or organizations to excavate or perform digging activities.
Example: "The city granted the authorities to dig in order to repair the underground water pipes."
Alternatives: "permission for excavation" or "authorization to excavate".
Mr. Hebert declined to say what led authorities to dig up the body.
His strategy: Work with local authorities to dig up evidence and bring prosecutions, raising slave owners' costs of doing business.
The company moves on, consumers make their decisions about the product, but it's almost unheard of for authorities to dig into the company until some cover-up or mistake or purposeful action which caused the problem is found.
Helped by volunteers in Bulgaria but stymied, Mr. Appelius said, by the reluctance of authorities there to dig up unflattering history, he has found concrete evidence of 845 such escape attempts, including 18 fatalities where he has been able to clearly document the identities of the victims.
Dr. Emmanuel M. Bueno, a surgeon who is a medical center director in Manila for the Philippines Department of Health and is helping to oversee medical care in Tacloban, Philippines, said in an interview that the authorities there planned to dig three mass graves on Wednesday, putting layers of bodies side by side with a plastic tarpaulin sprinkled with lime on top of each layer.
In a phone conversation with Chilean President Sebastian Piñera, he begged the Chilean authorities to keep digging.
Dr Centauro prefers his evidence to be wrought in stone, and he thinks the most persuasive pile of masonry around is actually on a mountainside near Florence.At the moment, he is awaiting permission from the authorities to start digging there.
By a peculiar coincidence, local authorities had chosen this week to dig up the pavement around the gates of his complex.
Firms are obliged to notify local authorities when they intend to dig, but less than 5% of road works are advised a month in advance.
Would the time of that hold have allowed the families and authorities to do some digging into the online persona and thoughts of these two troubled young men?
The city authorities had rented heavy machinery to dig up fields planted with crops.
