Example sentences of "[noun] conference [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ross MacKay , director of the Institute of Economic Research at the University College of North Wales , Bangor , told the North Wales 2000 Prospects and Opportunities conference in Llangollen that it was much too early for the Government to consider scrapping regional aid to Clwyd and Gwynedd in favour of the South East of England . |
| 2 | Gerrit Viljoen , Minister of Constitutional Development and the government 's chief negotiator in talks with the ANC , led a high-ranking National Party delegation at an Inkatha conference on July 20 . |
| 3 | The 25th FAO conference in Rome in November 1989 adopted a regular budget of US$569,000,000 for 1990/91 , an increase of $77,000,000 over the previous biennium [ see p. 36957 ] . |
| 4 | Should the latter be the case , the concern expressed last week at the Bookseller Association Conference by BA president John Hitchin , that the threat of a tax on books was still a live issue , was not ill-founded . |
| 5 | Opposition to the move , at the annual Scottish Prison Officers ' Association conference in Inverness yesterday came from the staff of Porterfield Prison , Inverness , who claimed that the moth-balled unit would not fulfil the role for which it was originally intended — to house disruptive prisoners . |
| 6 | Rodger Pannone , a solicitor involved in the Piper Alpha , King 's Cross and M1 air disasters , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg : ‘ Unless there are damages awards — which must be uninsurable - of hundreds of thousands , if not millions , of pounds in certain circumstances , bad companies have no threat or incentive to make products and services safer . ’ |
| 7 | Mark Tantum , a senior lawyer at the Serious Fraud Office , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg that a bank robber who turned from a mechanical to an electronic chainsaw to open the cash-box deserved different treatment from the hacker who simply accessed computer systems . |
| 8 | The public could be charged a tax specifically to pay for publicly funded legal services , in the same way as the National Health Service , Stephen Gilchrist , a London solicitor , told the International Bar Association conference in Strasbourg . |
| 9 | The above is an edited version of a paper given by Alan Giles to the Booksellers Association Conference in Torquay . |
| 10 | Virago 's first event to celebrate the company 's 20th birthday was for booksellers at a breakfast during the Booksellers Association Conference in Torquay last week . |
| 11 | Companies are facing another tough year in 1992 , Keith Wey , economist , told an association conference in London yesterday . |
| 12 | Her marriage troubles appeared to be firmly under wraps as she told delegates at a Motor Neurone Disease Association conference in Solihull : ‘ It is good to be here again and it is nice of you to have me . ’ |
| 13 | On the other side of the world , the largest number of members of the Bar ever attended the American Bar Association Conference in San Francisco in August . |
| 14 | Speaking at the Velo-City conference in Nottingham , Roads and Transport Minister Robert Key said local councils would be expected to include plans to improve facilities for cyclists when bidding for government funding for transport schemes . |
| 15 | I had arranged to meet Howard Imber , the writer , for a script conference over dinner at 8 , and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script . |
| 16 | The X Business Group is going to throw what it calls the first industry conference for X Windows , GUE and client/server technology June 7-8 , just before Xhibition , at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose , California . |
| 17 | Delegates from some of the biggest companies in the land gather at a Confederation of British Industry conference on health at work . |
| 18 | A Department of Trade and Industry conference on quality management at CBI , Centre Point , London . |
| 19 | The major problems facing the industry are that the product is still seen as difficult to cook and boring by non-buyers , said Keith Simpson , head of the British Turkey Information Service ( BTIS ) , at the annual turkey industry conference in Norwich yesterday . |
| 20 | At a recent nuclear industry conference in Washington state , USA , Harold Ray , senior vice president of the electricity utility Southern California Edison , said his company generate using four environmentally friendly energy sources — wind , nuclear , geothermal and solar . |
| 21 | Involvement in SEHE activities include co-operation in production of a publicity booklet for SEHE ; the second Scottish EHE conference in Aberdeen ; work on Student Records of Achievement through the Scottish Student EHE network . |
| 22 | September : second UNCTAD conference on LDCs [ see p. 37731 ] . |
| 23 | The plight of the then 41 least developed countries ( LDCs ) had been highlighted in February at an international ministerial meeting in the Bangladesh capital , Dhaka , [ see pp. 37267-68 ] , and again in September during the second UNCTAD conference on LDCs [ see p. 37731 ] . |
| 24 | Propose to take the vote Conference of motion two three six . |
| 25 | He told an international AIDS conference in Edinburgh that almost half of newly-infected adults were women . |
| 26 | Speaking recently at the 7th International AIDS Conference in Florence he said : |
| 27 | Head teachers and governors attending the third grant maintained schools conference in London last week feared it could be their last . |
| 28 | ‘ If we can find out how the insects switch this gene on and off then we may be able to prevent resistance by switching it off permanently , ’ said Dr Hemingway , at a Science and Engineering Research Conference in King 's College , London . |
| 29 | The regional meetings called to set the agenda for the big human-rights conference in Vienna next month have provided forums for this bitterness . |
| 30 | Three of us met at the Lesbian Sex and Sexual Practice Conference in London in 1983 . |