Example sentences of "[verb] by [art] national [noun pl] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Board of Directors was appointed by the Ministry of Transport after consultation with , and nominated by the National Ports Council , the Chamber of Shipping of the United Kingdom and Firth of Forth Shipowners Association , the British Shipper 's Council and Forth Ports Estuary Committee , Edinburgh Corporation , Buckhaven and Methil Burntisland and Kirkcaldy Town Councils , representatives of the Organised Labour , plus two Principal Officers of the Authority Management Group . |
| 2 | The data employed are the published national accounts of the UK , supplemented by the national accounts statistics of the other member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development , and by the data used in studies of local government expenditure in the US . |
| 3 | The weir will be the second of its kind on the river and was designed by the National Rivers Authority to keep gravel spawning beds clear of silt . |
| 4 | They were being addressed by the National Rivers Authority environmental quality manager , Mr Malcolm Colley . |
| 5 | The tests done by the National Rivers Authority are different from those that we are doing . |
| 6 | A series of lectures organized by the National Arts Collections Fund focusing on creating and preserving collections and will be held during the fair ; it marks the first time that the NACF has initiated a project at a trade fair . |
| 7 | The 90 box , bat ’ estate ’ was built by the National Rivers Authority at Shifford Lock in Oxfordshire . |
| 8 | The branch and regional structure is overseen by a national Branches Committee made up of Regional Directors . |
| 9 | That is argued by the National Farmers Union , the Farmers Union of Wales , the National Farmers Union for Scotland and all informed farming opinion . |
| 10 | Princess Anne , one of Gloucestershire 's best known country dwellers , was the main speaker at a conference in Cirencester organized by the National Farmers Union and the Womens Institutes . |
| 11 | The number of water pollution incidents in England and Wales rose by 4 per cent in 1992 to a total of 23,331 , according to official statistics produced by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 12 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 13 | Now a report by the Association of British Insurers , commissioned by the National Farmers Union , warns that the problem continues to grow . |
| 14 | It has been approved by the National Farmers Union ( NFU ) . |
| 15 | But despite the company 's own long-running antipollution programme the final lever to a clean River Tees looks like being what the company calls the ‘ very tough targets ’ set by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 16 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 17 | The second prosecution was brought by the National Rivers Authority after a mistake had caused chemicals to overflow from a storage tank , leading to a concentration of copper in the works discharge pipe of more than 17 times the legal limit . |
| 18 | The scheme proposed by the National Rivers Authority is designed to prevent flooding caused by a repeat of the 1947 event . |
| 19 | By the following Monday ‘ Downing Street sources ’ were telling journalists that the records of those two ad hoc meetings showed ‘ that a majority of those present were probably prepared to repudiate or reject ’ the course followed by the national armaments directors of Western Europe , the basis of the European consortium 's bid . |
| 20 | It is for this reason we currently have the ludicrous situation of two record fish lists , one run by the National Anglers Council , which is a record of fish that were claimed in accordance with a set of inflexible rules , and one that is run by the National Association of Specialist Anglers , whose record fish appear according to individual merit , this merit being judged by highly experienced specialist anglers who know a ‘ con ’ when they see one and who would reject a claim if there were any doubt as to its truth . |
| 21 | The increases have been introduced as part of the " polluter pays " principle and are intended to cover the costs incurred by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in controlling water pollution . |
| 22 | The scheme has been welcomed by the National Farmers Union as a cheap method of ensuring that farmers do not harbour illegal chemicals . |
| 23 | The scheme has been welcomed by the National Farmers Union and countryside campaigners , both of whom , however , criticized as insufficient the £3.5 million available for the first three years . |
| 24 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 25 | If necessary flood warnings will be issued by the National Rivers Authority and police will try to warn residents using local radio , television and loud hailer vans touring risk areas . |
| 26 | Altogether 63 waters containing toxic algal blooms were identified by the National Rivers Authority , 37 of them in Anglian Region and 10 in the South West . |
| 27 | This proposed setting up ‘ nitrate sensitive areas ’ ( NSAs ) in which sources are at or over 50 mg/litre , to be identified by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 28 | Darlington Borough Council is to consider the planning application submitted by the National Farmers Union . |
| 29 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |
| 30 | She 's looked at the results of samples taken by the National Rivers Authority from a mineshaft and other sites on land owned by Watkins engineering , of Sling , near Coleford . |