Example sentences of "speaking [prep] the [adj] conference " in BNC.
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| 1 | Speaking at the annual conference of the Confederation of British Industry ( CBI ) , he quoted a recent study which indicated that the ratio of exports to imports of environmental technology had fallen from 8:1 to 1:1 in the 1980s . |
| 2 | The Leader of the Council , Eric Pickles , speaking at the Tory Conference in 1988 , had promised that these reforms would place the customer first and that Labour would be swept from control of the cities and Town Halls . |
| 3 | The City Engineer of Birmingham , H.J. Manzoni , speaking at the 1941 Conference of the Town and Country Planning Association ( under its new name , the ‘ Garden City ’ appellation having been discarded ) described the problems of large-scale redevelopment under existing legislation . |
| 4 | But , speaking at the same conference , Ed Wallis , chief executive of PowerGen , the company which will inherit a third of the Central Electricity Generating Board 's stations , warned : ‘ We plan to burn a wider range of fuels from a wider range of sources — and we owe it to our customers to get the best possible deal . ’ |
| 5 | The President of the European Commission , Jacques Delors , speaking at the same conference , said more explicitly that he could conceive of a situation in which France 's nuclear umbrella could one day be extended to the entire EC under a common doctrine . |