Example sentences of "[noun] committee [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last month , the Senate appropriations committee passed a bill that would cut $1.8bn ( £1.1bn ) from the Trident D-5 programme , which has experienced a number of embarrassing failures in tests of the weapon . |
| 2 | The solicitors and representatives of the South Ronaldsay Parents ' Action Committee hold a press conference in a Kirkwall night club . |
| 3 | In Oslo yesterday , diplomats warned that the Nobel committee had a reputation for security and the leaked forecasts might prove wide of the mark . |
| 4 | A review and analysis of SSAP 15 was carried out by a working party of the institute 's research committee following a request from the Accounting Standards Board . |
| 5 | It came as no surprise in July when the Commons Public Accounts Committee contrasted a shambles over heart disease prevention in England with a ‘ vigorous and businesslike ’ Welsh approach . |
| 6 | The United States Golf Association 's Equipment Committee considered a proposal limiting the length of a conventional putter , but decided that longer putters are not detrimental to the game . |
| 7 | In 1934 the Hall Committee made a set of regulations for lending which were stuck in each book on a numbered bookplate ; the highest number remaining is over 800 . |
| 8 | Indeed , as stated earlier , pupil motivation was one of the reasons why the Cockcroft Committee recommended a study of graduated assessment . |
| 9 | They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising . |
| 10 | The General Purposes Committee of Leeds DASA linked arms with the Fisheries Management Committee to complete a netting operation on a private stillwater . |
| 11 | The Building Management Committee seeks Chartered Builders who are experienced managers in the industry and the Facilities Management Committee has a vacancy for someone with a dual CIOB/CIBSE qualification . |
| 12 | Lower Ormeau Community Festival Committee organised a week long series of events , most of which were during the day . |
| 13 | If the investigation committee rejects a complaint , the complainant now has the right to apply for a rehearing . |
| 14 | One of the councillors on the libraries committee took a copy of Gay News home to study so that he could n't be accused of being uninformed when the time came for him to vote for its rejection . |
| 15 | UEFA 's appeals committee have a reputation for not only upholding decisions of the disciplinary committee , but in some cases increasing the punishment . |
| 16 | The social security committee wants a time limit of six months on the recovery process . |
| 17 | Official recognition of the need for gaol reform dates back to 1919 , when a major report by the Indian Jails Committee heralded a change in government pronouncements about the aims of imprisonment , renouncing the retributive philosophy which had been enshrined in police and legislation since the report of Lord Macauley 's prison Disciplinary Committee in 1838 . |
| 18 | Following the work of the Panel , the Social Affairs Committee appointed a consultant Professor Margot Jeffreys to define areas of research on the process of ageing with special emphasis on the mature adult worker in the age group 45 to 65 . |
| 19 | A key stage in the government 's plan to privatize the five leading banks ( Union , Mizrahi , Discount , Hapoalim and Leumi ) was reached on Nov. 26 , 1989 , when the ministerial economics committee approved a plan to equalize the voting rights of the banks ' shares . |
| 20 | The Joint ESRC/SERC Committee has a remit to support interdisciplinary work which spans the full range of interest of both Councils . |
| 21 | The Widdicombe Committee proposed a simplification of the existing system by the replacement of the attendance allowance and financial loss allowance with a basic flat rate allowance paid as an annual sum . |
| 22 | The Widdicombe Committee proposed a strengthening of the role of the chief executive in local government . |
| 23 | My supplementary is will the Chairman of policy and resources committee make a statement to the county council to reassure and inform the ethnic minority community and the general public of Leicestershire of the need for tolerance and racial harmony and reaffirm the county council 's opposition to all forms of racist dogma . |
| 24 | The policy and resources committee backed a series of measures including arranging free glass etching sessions and regular monitoring of security and lighting at the council 's car parks . |
| 25 | The conference was broadly enough based to include both Samuel Gurney and the intemperate American Garrisonian , Parker Pillsbury , but although the BFASS committee supported a resolution encouraging American abolitionists of all ‘ persuasions , it refused to eat enough of its past words to single out for particular mention the American Anti-Slavery Society , associated with the Garrison 's ‘ heretical ’ notions . |
| 26 | To solve the problems it diagnosed , the Fulton Committee recommended a number of changes which amounted to an attempt to introduce the modern ( largely American ) techniques of business management into the civil service . |
| 27 | Then the local Camra committee held a meeting to finalise details of the scaffolding hire , beer deliveries and drinking glasses . |
| 28 | In each school the library committee provided a forum in which a wide range of subject teachers were not only permitted to involve themselves , but to some extent obliged to participate in formulating specific curriculum/library plans . |
| 29 | In the light of the kinds of departmental submission noted above , the library committee established a number of priorities which , despite the departmental and faculty contributions , collected needs together under general heads as follows : ( a ) Stands , microfiche , book covering materials , display material , magazine folders ( max. £1,000 ) |
| 30 | The Minerals Officer will be able to advise developers on their applications and on what supporting information will be required to help the planning committee reach a decision . |