Example sentences of "committee set " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday , though , the independent committee set up by the Government to look at the admissibility of pre-trial video interviews of abused children called for radical changes . |
| 2 | A committee set up by the accountancy profession believes that the data protection registrar will have to cope with 10 times the volume of work , with less than half the staff . |
| 3 | Her case was heard by a special committee set up by the DoH , following calls for more openness in the NHS . |
| 4 | The second is the joint committee set up by the General Council of the Bar and The Law Society , chaired by Lady Marre , which reported in July 1988 ( Marre Committee , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Proposals for qualitative improvement in new dwellings came from a committee set up by the Local Government Board ; chaired by Sir John Tudor Walters , an MP and Director of the Hampstead Garden Suburb Trust , it dealt with matters relating to building construction and the provision of dwellings for the working class . |
| 6 | When it becomes law , Scottish Natural Heritage will have to refer objections to proposed and existing SSSIs to yet another body , a new committee set up by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |
| 7 | The amendment forces Scottish Natural Heritage to refer objections to proposed and existing Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSIs ) to a new committee set up by Scottish Secretary Ian Lang . |
| 8 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 9 | Opposition groups criticized as inadequate a preliminary draft of a new constitution presented on April 4 by the constitutional committee set up by President Hassan Gouled Aptidon in January [ see p. 38711 ] ; the proposal retained a strong executive presidency . |
| 10 | Mexico City 's long-running air pollution problems [ see ED 53/54 and passim ] are to be addressed by a special committee set up by President Carlos Salinas . |
| 11 | The trustee must send a report to every member of the committee setting out the position generally regarding the progress of his administration . |
| 12 | Erm obviously we can er prepare a note for the committee setting out the main features in what I would call our commercial strategy . |
| 13 | This committee set about establishing a small residential home for old people , the second of its kind in the country , and , by July 1942 , thanks largely to her drive , West Town House in Bristol was opened . |
| 14 | HERON International chairman Gerald Ronson will this week meet the steering committee set up on Friday to represent Heron 's 82 bankers to negotiate a standstill agreement on its £1.22 billion debt . |
| 15 | President Rafsanjani 's faction has ensured that a committee set up to vet candidates ' Islamic credentials has eliminated many hardliners , such as Ayatollah Khalkhali , who sentenced thousands to death early in the revolution . |
| 16 | It came about as the result of a committee set up under the chairmanship of that impeccable Liberal , Lord Haldane , to consider ‘ The Question of Foreign Espionage in the United Kingdom ’ . |
| 17 | Tensions increased when the NGC sought the right to disburse steadfastness money instead of the Jordanian-PLO Joint Committee set up in Amman . |
| 18 | The Committee set out the principal options , and the preferences of the broadcasters . |
| 19 | So the Civil Contingencies Unit , the Cabinet committee set up after the miners ' strike of ‘ 72 , which I 've no doubt you were intimately involved in , in –74 actually delivered the goods . |
| 20 | Kent 's interests during the passage of the Channel Tunnel Bill were also served by the Joint Consultative Committee set up following a formal commitment by the government given in the February 1986 White Paper . |
| 21 | The first big task the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee set themselves was to circulate a petition round all the Orkney Islands . |
| 22 | That was not , of course , achieved in six or seven months : the beginnings of the process go back several years , when our ‘ old ’ domestic Ethics Committee set up , in conjunction with the other Institutes , a joint Working Party on Independence and the Audit . |
| 23 | Meanwhile the committee set the rules and obtained generous sponsorship through local industry , together with donors for the two trophies . |
| 24 | The Reform Committee set its sights on the quarterly meeting later that month . |
| 25 | Only five years before , an inter-departmental committee set up jointly by the Home Office and the Lord Chancellor 's Department , under the chairmanship of a High Court Judge , had rejected the solution of permanent Crown Courts to handle the much increased workload of criminal cases and to reduce the time spent by defendants awaiting trial . |
| 26 | Under the chairmanship of the new deputy head , the committee set about thrashing out the proposal . |
| 27 | During the Second World War he came to national notice as chairman of a Senate committee set up to check on war contracts and to prevent war profiteering . |
| 28 | With funding , public support and a large space available , the steering committee set about the task of providing guide lines and selectors . |
| 29 | He was also the first chairman of the colleges ' committee set up after the 1962 report of the commission on the relationship between the colleges and university , chaired by the first Baron Bridges [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | East India affairs apart , Herne 's parliamentary career was limited to sitting on a number of committees ( the committee set up early in 1695 to prevent the clipping of the coin being probably the most notable ) . |