Example sentences of "a [noun pl] council [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Colleagues , to allow a trades council delegate to represent a trades council view , which could mean an official or member of a trades union speaking in opposition to its national policy , would be unacceptable .
2 Colleagues , to allow a trades council delegate to represent a trades council view , which could mean an official or member of a trades union speaking in opposition to its national policy , would be unacceptable .
3 Margaret Spencer reported on a discussion held at a Schools Council Language for Learning Project Conference in 1981 , when teachers were asked the question " Why do we ask children to read to us ? "
4 Until now , Livingston has consistently protested total innocence of how he could have provided a positive sample in a Sports Council test just before the Games .
5 Just 24 hours earlier a Sports Council spokeswoman , defending the drug tests , declared : ‘ How do you think the competitors would feel if our findings were proved wrong ?
6 His work in the Sahara was recently included in a Sports Council exhibition that nearly never happened due to a last-minute decision by sponsors Kodak to pull out half of their backing money , which was needed for other photographic projects .
7 If you are the sort of band that wants an arts council grant , then you are probably too special or too precious to conform to the limits set by ‘ popular ’ taste .
8 For the first time in its history D'Oyly Carte is receiving an Arts Council grant , support denied to the old company because of both its sliding standards of production and its refusal to widen its brief beyond Gilbert and Sullivan .
9 She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts Council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes .
10 An Arts Council grant was obtained for the bilingual catalogue , as well as support from private sponsors .
11 She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes .
12 The major survey of the paintings of Walter Richard Sickert , which opens at the Royal Academy of Arts towards the end of this month ( 20 November-14 February 1993 ) and commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the artist 's death in 1942 , is the most comprehensive exhibition of his work to be staged since the Tate Gallery 's centenary exhibition of 1960 and an Arts Council touring show seen in Hull , Glasgow and Plymouth in 1977–78 .
13 Andrew Pinnock is an Arts Council Music Officer ( early music is his specialist field ) , and has recently been appointed Artistic Administrator to the Purcell Tercentenary Trust .
14 I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting .
15 Mr Campbell was inspired to set up the fair by the publication last year of an Arts Council pamphlet which gave names and addresses of those producing books in Britain at the present and his fair is concentrating on British work .
16 They were drawings remarkable for their delicacy in an Arts Council exhibition devoted to the output of the Euston Road School .
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