Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] committee [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I shall be demanding that we have a full explanation from Department of Trade and Industry officials when they appear before the public accounts committee to be cross-examined on this report on December 4 . ’ |
| 2 | Several changes short of this , however , have been proposed : requiring greater disclosure of information ; extending jurisdiction of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Public Accounts Committee to more bodies ; and clarifying the authority , powers and legal status of all such organizations ( see , for example , Outer Circle Policy Unit , 1979a ; and Pliatzky Report , 1980 , pp. 18–23 ) . |
| 3 | As the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons had demonstrated , however , neither the Government nor the health authorities had accurate information on the exact numbers employed or any sensible means of controlling numbers . |
| 4 | Arrangements were made for explanations of the transfer to be demanded by the influential Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Most of the new agencies are answerable to the appropriate minister and their chief executives are answerable to the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons . |
| 6 | The all-party Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons has called for stricter regulations to prevent pollution by oil and chemical spills at sea . |
| 7 | Will the hon. Gentleman have a word with the Chairman and members of the Public Accounts Committee about that ? |
| 8 | He told them : ‘ Well , Peter Gregson revealed all the facts during his marathon appearance before the Public Accounts Committee on Monday . |
| 9 | Is the Leader of the House aware that the seventh report of the Public Accounts Committee on the privatisation of Harland and Wolff was not available to Members in the House until late yesterday evening and that it had been made available to others some time previously ? |
| 10 | The report will be handed to the Public Accounts Committee in the New Year . |
| 11 | The Reverend Peter Brown , Convener of the Social Matters Committee for the Orkney Presbytery , began to investigate the actions of the Evangelical Charismatic Movement in Orkney , and whether any members of the Orkney Christian Fellowship had been at that seminar . |
| 12 | The Governor had been due to fly to London on 5 June to testify to the Commons foreign affairs committee on the condition of the colony following the Joint Declaration . |
| 13 | Meanwhile pacifists were generally content with the abstract moralizing suggested by the Manchester Guardian 's opposition to the formation of a Liberal Foreign Affairs Committee on the grounds that the ‘ success or failure [ of foreign policy ] depends on the application of a few simple principles to facts which as a rule are not very numerous nor very complicated . ’ |
| 14 | The US Secretary of State , James A. Baker , however , stated before the House of Representatives foreign affairs committee on Feb. 6 that there was no evidence of repatriated Haitians being persecuted or ill-treated after their return . |
| 15 | On Sept. 18 there was pointed criticism from some pro-Israeli Democrats over the extent of proposed US arms sales to Saudi Arabia [ see above ] , while US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South-East Asian Affairs John Kelly came under attack before the House foreign affairs committee for the lack of a clear signal to Iraq prior to Aug. 2 that the US would not tolerate any invasion of Kuwait . |
| 16 | ‘ What is even more disturbing , ’ the Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Congress said in a letter to Dr Banda dated 3 April , ‘ we have been told that several members of the Malawi Congress Party have called for the bishops ' death by an orchestrated mob . ’ |
| 17 | The Foreign Affairs Committee of Britain 's Parliament said recently of this forum : ‘ It is accountable to no one . |
| 18 | US Secretary of State James Baker , addressing the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on June 13 , said that the stance of the new government could be summed up as " there will be no dialogue unless the Palestinians accept our position in advance " . |
| 19 | In an address to the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on Sept. 4 , Baker reiterated the aims which Bush had outlined in August [ see p. 37638 ] . |
| 20 | Michel Vauzelle , head of the foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly ( French lower house of parliament ) , travelled to Baghdad on Jan. 2 , holding talks with Aziz and ( on Jan. 5 ) with Saddam Hussein . |
| 21 | Al-Masri , formerly chairman of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of parliament , the House of Representatives , had voiced stronger support for the Iraqi position on the Gulf crisis than al-Qasem . |
| 22 | Numerous politicians and government officials visited Algeria , Morocco and Tunisia including Michel Vauzelle , head of the foreign affairs committee of the National Assembly ( French lower house of parliament ) who had visited Iraq in January [ see p. 37934 ] . |
| 23 | On April 23 the foreign affairs committee of the US House of Representatives authorized $475,000,000 as emergency assistance for Iraqi refugees . |
| 24 | The foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives heard evidence from Sick and Bani-Sadr . |
| 25 | This study is a preliminary piece of work concerned with a possible initiative from the Social Affairs Committee on the Future of Welfare . |
| 26 | The Social Affairs Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council decided in 1983 that a national time budget study would be relevant to its general policy aims . |
| 27 | This research project aims to help the ESRC Social Affairs Committee in furthering its work on evaluation and dissemination of its research projects . |
| 28 | As long ago as 1976 , the marine resources committee of the FAO believed that ‘ populations of all three dolphin and porpoise species were probably being exploited in the Turkish fishery at levels they would not be able to survive for more than a few years . ’ |
| 29 | Acheson met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on 24 March to discuss the proposals for Greece and Turkey and to answer questions on Korea . |
| 30 | However , the Senate foreign relations committee on Sept. 9 voted against the treaty , after a week of hearings at which most speakers backed the bases , on the grounds that the end of the Cold War meant that US military bases in the Philippines were redundant and that it was a " one-sided , unequal agreement " . |