Example sentences of "a [noun pl] council " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean you know what happened when , wh when th General Strike was on , there was er nothing entered unless it 'd got a permit from a Trades Council , and you know that do n't you ? |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The second reason that , that we 're delighted to see you is that as a Trades Council we have been trying very hard over the last six or seven years to raise the profile of the trade union movement and this has been quite difficult in in during the Thatcher years , during the anti-trade union legislation , the onslaught by the media , trade unions er , the profile of trade unions has not been easy to raise . |
| 5 | And so we , we are in the process of setting up an online database computerized which would be accessible by not just branches , but individual erm health and safety reps for a fairly minimal affiliation which will tap into the latest information which will be updated er every three months and we feel that again that 's something in conjunction with , clearly with the unions in the city something that a trades council should be doing , something that raises our profile , explains to people what trade councils , what the trade union movement is all about and does it effectively using modern techniques and modern methods . |
| 6 | The third reason why we 're , we 're pleased to see you here is that erm as a trades council , we 've and this er and Dick mentioned this in his introduction , we 've initiated a major international programme , major in terms of our size obviously as er as a local body , involving links between union activists here primarily in France er , in northern France , but also links now developing in Spain with the new ferry going between Portsmouth and Bilbao , we 're starting to meet with the unions in Spain who are interested in speaking about the , the , the differences in wages in terms and conditions working for the same ferry company , doing the same jobs in the port , a comparative look at how the , the wages terms and conditions differ and we want to , we want to go and visit them in the autumn and , and work out , and work on more links on a sector basis , so that our colleagues down in Bilbao in northern Spain can link up with people in the , in the , in similar sectors here and we 've done this over the last three and a half years with the unions in France , we 've had exchanges of all sectors , the public sectors , transport , erm , health , social services , shop workers . |
| 7 | 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 ? " |
| 8 | IN 1965 a Sports Council was set up to advise the government on future policy on sport and physical education . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Since our last meeting June Bascombe , Hilda Lodge , Joan Daniels and Janet Rogers had appeared before a Sports Council ‘ panel ’ and answered many questions with reference to our development plan . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | That will create a body that is not quite like the National Trust , an Arts Council or Countryside Commission , but certainly a quango , probably under the leadership of Mrs Jenkins . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts Council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 18 | The Office Fédéral de la Culture , which is the nearest equivalent in Switzerland to a Ministry of Culture or an Arts Council , has just presented a report to the Swiss government , calling for new legislation controlling the import and export of works of art , and encouraging the authorities to sign the 1970 UNESCO convention . |
| 19 | An Arts Council grant was obtained for the bilingual catalogue , as well as support from private sponsors . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They were drawings remarkable for their delicacy in an Arts Council exhibition devoted to the output of the Euston Road School . |
| 22 | I came back to London before the actual signing of the agreement because I had to attend an Arts Council meeting . |
| 23 | She 's recently returned from Bolivia where an Arts council grant enabled her to shoot the natives living in the foothills of the Andes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ THROUGH The Lens ’ , an Arts Council well known local photographers , opened today in Armagh County Museum on The Mall . |
| 26 | This set up an Examinations Council , GCE Board and CSE Board in Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | At an officers council two of the lads got up to sing a duet at a free and easy sing-song after the intensity of the day . |