Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] the european [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Students have been placed with the European Secretariat in Luxembourg , with Amnesty International , Oxfam , Third World Development agencies , and with parliamentary representatives , thus combining theoretical studies with practical work experience .
2 It is called H.261 ( or , sometimes , px64 ) and has been formulated by the European Commission 's Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy ( CCITT ) .
3 The code of practice has been formulated by the European Community .
4 The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow .
5 The move meant that the krone , which had been pegged to the European currency unit since October 1990 [ see p. 37782 ] , was effectively devalued by 5 per cent .
6 The argument has been considered by the European Court of Justice in Torfaen Borough Council v. B. & Q. Plc .
7 The first such patent has recently been granted by the European Patent Office to a Belgian company for any crop resistant to the herbicide Basta .
8 Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided .
9 A further four have been made by the European Community and through the United Nations .
10 BRITAIN HAS been instructed by the European Community to suspend immediately key provisions of the 1988 Merchant Shipping Act , designed to repel a 100- strong armada of Spanish vessels fishing in United Kingdom waters .
11 In view of the fears expressed about the possibility of serious restrictions being placed on the availability of certain nutritional supplements as a result of the new EC regulations , will the Minister give us an assurance that the Government will conduct far wider and genuine consultations on the discussion paper that has been produced by the European Commission ?
12 Four companies — Siemens AG , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Alcatel NV and Northern Telecom Ltd will share a $230m project to modernise parts of Bulgaria 's telephone system : the quartet has been approved by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank ; the project is to digitise trunk and international telephone lines , as the first phase of a more thorough modernisation .
13 The British seaside resort of Blackpool has been condemned by the European Court of Justice for the quality of water off its bathing beaches .
14 The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands .
15 This year has been scheduled by the European Commission as European Year of Older People and Solidarity between Generations , and age discrimination and the employment of older workers is emerging as a major public policy issue .
16 It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission .
17 Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences .
18 A LINK-up between Gillette and Wilkinson Sword has been axed by the European Commission .
19 Michael Smith writes : Radical plans to privatise parts of the European railway system and help switch freight to rail has been proposed by the European Commission .
20 The obligation of Member States to provide for and impose real and effective sanctions in respect of a breach of Community law has been derived by the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) from two fundamental Community law principles : the principle of co-operation and the principle of effective judicial protection .
21 KPMG has been appointed by the European Commission to carry out a survey of venture capitalists in the European Community .
22 It was widely believed that Churchill had been converted to the European cause during the war , and that he had kept the flame of union alight .
23 Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations .
24 The three potential entrants to the EEC have been characterised by the European Commission as having economies at a stage of development midway between the developing and the industrialised countries .
25 The proposals demanding a common fair electoral system have been passed by the European parliament .
26 Even where legislation has been phrased in the European manner , like section 10 of the Contempt of Court Act , the courts have nevertheless contrived to let pro-executive exceptions swallow the supposed rule ( see the Guardian Newspaper case , Chapter 5 ) .
27 Since 1990 , the proposal has been reviewed by the European Parliament and returned to the Commission for re-drafting .
28 The Centre has been contracted by the European Community Bureau of Reference and the DTI 's Valid Analytical Measurements Programme to collaborate with other organisations in the development of calibration standards for aerosol measurement equipment .
29 They have been cleared by the European Commission because they were transitional contracts .
30 She has not been beaten on the European circuit this season .
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