Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [noun pl] council " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thames Water Authority was fined £3,000 with £1,000 costs by Newbury magistrates after it admitted pumping ‘ virtually raw ’ sewage into a stream flowing through land owned by Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , at Bagnor Manor , Winterbourne , Berkshire . |
| 2 | ACCORDING to Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , in the United States 90 per cent of the arts are funded by individual donors . |
| 3 | WEALTHY businessmen who have benefited from low tax rates should do more to subsidise the arts , the chairman of the Arts Council said yesterday . |
| 4 | Stephen Bayley , former director of the Design Museum , will chair a debate , taking questions from the floor ( many pre-wrapped ) and flinging them at a panel of designers , architects , patrons and critics , among them Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , and Mies van der Rohe buff . |
| 5 | He served as editor of The Times while unable to type , as chairman of the Arts Council while unable to drive , and was appointed to the Broadcasting Standards Council unaware that one of Britain 's most popular television shows was named Jim 'll Fix It ( ‘ Who 's Jim ? ’ he once asked ) . |
| 6 | Tory-supporting modernist , and chairman of the Arts Council . |
| 7 | This attitude has provoked strong reactions from various gallery holders who have benefited by the system , some of whom accuse Mr Job de Ruiter , the chairman of the Arts Council , of wanting to dictate the taste of the public by forcing on it a type of art it simply does n't want . |
| 8 | ‘ Renton 's very definitely a man I can do business with ’ Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council was reported to have said , after a preliminary meeting . |
| 9 | The author presiding at his last meeting as chairman of the Arts Council in 1972 . |
| 10 | It has done more , for example , for the understanding of music by ordinary people of this country than any other organisation , including the Arts Council ’ — this was a generous admission from the then chairman of the Arts Council — ‘ and it has done much for education and a great deal for general culture . |
| 11 | Occasionally the advice sought was within my specialised knowledge as the chairman of the Arts Council . |
| 12 | He was always very amenable to me when , as chairman of the Arts Council , I too was in need of some special support . |
| 13 | When Jim Haynes had been planning his shift from the Edinburgh Traverse to London in 1965 , the suggestion for the Jeanetta Cochrane venue had come from Harold Wilson 's all-purpose wheeler-dealer Lord , then Arnold Goodman , the Chairman of the Arts Council . |
| 14 | The President and Director-General became members of the new Architecture Round Table launched by the Chairman of the Arts Council , Lord Palumbo . |
| 15 | Commenting on the prize , Lord Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , said : ‘ Literature is one of the greatest arts of the United Kingdom and perhaps our finest gift to the world . |
| 16 | In the Nelson Mandela room at Sheffield town hall yesterday Peter Yarranton , the chairman of the Sports Council , handed an envelope to Peter Burns , executive director of the organisation . |
| 17 | There is one sporting knight in today 's list , John Smith , the chairman of Liverpool Football Club , whose is rewarded for his service as chairman of the Sports Council . |
| 18 | The Chairman of the Sports Council , Peter Yarranton , concurred and called for the expansion of pay and play facilities to at least 30% of all future developments to allow ‘ sport for all ’ . |
| 19 | What answer will the Minister give to the chairman of the Sports Council , who described the recent cuts as a kick in the teeth ? |
| 20 | I spoke to the chairman of the Sports Council this morning and pointed out that the increase in grant is in excess of inflation . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science when he next plans to meet the chairman of the Sports Council to discuss funding for sport . |
| 22 | The funding of sport in the United Kingdom is one of many issues that I discuss regularly with the chairman of the Sports Council . |
| 23 | The Council presently is considering the report ‘ The Misuse of Drugs In Sport ’ by Colin Moynihan MP , Minister for Sport and Sebastian Coe , Vice Chairman of the Sports Council ( issued by the Department of the Environment , September 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Five former chairmen of the Arts Council , Lord Cottesloe ( 1960–65 ) , Lord Goodman ( 1965–72 ) , Lord Gibson ( 1972–77 ) , Sir Kenneth Robinson ( 1977–82 ) and Lord Rees–Mogg ( 1982–89 ) also wrote to The Times : ‘ It has been and remains the cardinal principle of the Arts Council since its formation , that the arts should be immunised from political control ’ . |