Example sentences of "[v-ing] at a conference " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rutter , who was speaking at a conference organised by CLEAR , the anti-lead group , went on to question the way committees such as the Lawther committee are set up . |
| 2 | Speaking at a conference on space science and technology in Rome last week , Adeniyi said that such schemes have little point if the engineers are unable to use their knowledge when they return home . |
| 3 | The Right Reverend Philip Goodrich , Bishop of Worcester , was speaking at a conference on the future of marriage . |
| 4 | He heard them alongside recordings of Di speaking at a conference and said that although there were similarities , the voice patterns of the unidentified woman did NOT match Di 's . |
| 5 | Speaking at a conference on the ‘ Future of the Irish Country House ’ ( 26 February ) , the Prime Minister of Ireland , Albert Reynolds made a statement of profound importance about how Ireland has come to terms with its Anglo-Irish past , at least so far as its architecture is concerned . |
| 6 | Speaking at a conference organised by The Community Research Centre , Help the Aged UK director Wally Harbert said government policy over the past 14 years had promoted institutional care at the expense of individual needs . |
| 7 | The laboratory 's John Barton , speaking at a conference in London last year , described a number of occasions when decisions to invest in schemes to recycle rubbish or to burn it as fuel had been based on estimates of commercial and household waste that turned out to be much too high . |
| 8 | President Mitterrand , speaking at a conference on European unity in Paris on Jan. 10 , indicated that the French government would be prepared to discuss the possibility of a wider role for France 's nuclear forces within the context of a European Community defence policy . |
| 9 | Lowry was speaking at a conference of " nuclear-free " local authorities , which called for a halt to the import and processing of all foreign radioactive waste , pending a public investigation into the government 's strategy on nuclear waste . |
| 10 | Speaking at a conference on the protection of coastlines in Paris , she spoke of the " moral injunction " to clean up and protect the environment . |
| 11 | Speaking at a conference in Cambridge , Lord Buxton said that three years of dry weather were not primarily responsible for the lowest groundwater levels since the 1940s . |
| 12 | Speaking at a conference in Bangkok , Thailand , he said that forest cover had fallen from 13 million hectares in the 1960s ( corresponding to 73 per cent of the country 's land area ) to seven million hectares today ( 39 per cent ) . |
| 13 | George Littlewood , vice-president of the Australian mining group CRA , speaking at a conference in the United States , quoted as evidence a paper produced by the Worldwatch Institute . |
| 14 | Speaking at a conference in London , Maclean said that " a charge based on the amount and type of pollutants discharged to water would give a direct financial incentive for cleaner effluent . |
| 15 | She was speaking at a conference looking at problems facing the countryside . |