Example sentences of "council of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In favour of the motion to increase the subsidy on Uridian marioc by sixteen per cent , 522 votes , ’ announced Neputa Tharm , Leader of the Council of the Galaxy . |
| 2 | On the screen Derek Carlisle said , ‘ Our foreign affairs correspondent , Trevor Newsom , is now in the studio on Luctia , ready to explain to us the background to today 's decisions by the Council of the Galaxy . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ … where the formal press conference to mark the end of the Council of the Galaxy is about to begin . ’ |
| 4 | The Council of the Galaxy must make some concession . |
| 5 | TESTING for HIV as a condition of employment should be banned except where the absence of Aids or HIV infection is a bona fide requirement of the job , the Council of the International Bar Association decided at the opening of its ninth biennial conference in Strasbourg yesterday . |
| 6 | This evening Her Royal Highness , Patron of the British Nutrition Foundation , attended a Dinner at the Natural History Museum ( Chairman of the Council of the British Nutrition Foundation , Dr Jack Edelman ) . |
| 7 | He called the selection of the Interim Council of the PICAO a ‘ travesty ’ . |
| 8 | He is chairman of the Council of the Scottish Business School , the Prison Reform Trust and the Scottish Enterprise Foundation . |
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| 10 | Between the 1st day of July 1987 and the 15th day of October 1987 conspired together and with other persons fraudulently to induce persons to enter into agreements for acquiring or subscribing for securities , namely shares in Blue Arrow plc , by making statements which they knew to be misleading , false or deceptive or by dishonestly concealing material facts or by recklessly making statements which were misleading , false or deceptive namely : 1.1 By failing to notify the Company Announcements Office of the Quotations Department of the International Stock Exchange by way of a Class 2 announcement ( as provided for by Section 6 of the Council of the Stock Exchange 's admission of securities to listing ) following the purchase of shares in Manpower Incorporated for a consideration in excess of 5 per cent of the consolidated net assets of Blue Arrow ; 1.2 By concealing the fact that the level of Acceptances of provisionally allotted new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow was 38.04 per cent at the expiry of the offer by way of rights issue at 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.3 By concealing the fact that 54,625,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow were taken up after 3pm on September 28 , 1987 ; 1.4 By falsely stating that , in connection with the rights issue of 504.4 million new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow , acceptances had been received in respect of 246.5 million shares which represented 48.9 per cent of the rights issue . |
| 11 | The council of the Association of University Teachers backed a claim drawn up by the union 's executive for a 27 per cent pay rise from next April . |
| 12 | Norman Adsetts , chairman of the Regional Council of the CBI and a leading Sheffield businessman , has been appointed to oversee the running of the day-to-day business of the company . |
| 13 | Its heritage goes back to when ‘ The Witan ’ , or the council of the Saxon kings , established the significance of Witney when they chose the then village as a meeting place in the 10th. and 11th. centuries . |
| 14 | I call for his immediate resignation and the transfer of power to a collective body , the Council of the Federation … |
| 15 | Striking miners have also asked for the resignation of President Gorbachev , the transfer of power to the Council of the Federation ( made up of the presidents of the different national republics ) , and new elections to the Soviet parliament . |
| 16 | Now it was felt that the General Council of the TUC had struck a blow to maintain minimum wages for all workers by its support of the woollen and worsted textile workers . |
| 17 | The miners refused to accept such changes and the General Council of the TUC committed itself to sympathetic strike action from Friday , 31 July . |
| 18 | The General Council of the TUC had decided that only essential , front-line or group one , workers such as railway workers and printers should be called out . |
| 19 | The General Strike , a title not used by the TUC , was simply an attempt by the General Council of the TUC to support the miners against a wage reduction . |
| 20 | Sir Alfred Mond , of the Federation of British Industries , and Ben Turner , President of the General Council of the TUC , entered into discussions while their respective bodies debated their attitude to the new alliance and the proposals which were being made . |
| 21 | There had been many amalgamations , the Transport and General Workers and many other large unions had absorbed small unions to form a formidable barrier to employers , there was less interunion rivalry and the authority of the General Council of the TUC was accepted and practically unchallenged . |
| 22 | However , there was no change in the strategy and policies adopted by the General Council of the TUC . |
| 23 | Also in that year , Ernest Bevin became the Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dr Hugh Dalton became Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 24 | In that year Bevin became Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dalton was made Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 25 | A. M. Fairbairn , in addition to his own works , wrote two entries for the Cambridge Modern History and was a member of the first Council of the British Academy . |
| 26 | In 1620 the Lord President and the Council of the North reported to the Privy Council that the enclosure of the ‘ best part ’ of Galtres Forest had inflicted great hardship upon the poor of Easingwold and Kirkby . |
| 27 | He was an early enthusiast for British membership of the European Monetary System and was on the council of the Howard League for Penal Reform from 1977 to 1983 . |
| 28 | THE council of the Royal Yachting Association , the British power boat authority , have ratified a series of measures against the organisers of the Cowes-Torquay Classic , the biggest race on the British calendar . |
| 29 | The WEA could take some comfort from the presence among the remaining six on the committee of Alan Bullock , who had expressed his sympathies for the movement in the previous year 's Highway , and of G. B. Thorneycroft of the General Council of the TUC . |
| 30 | Barber was a member of the council of the Royal Institute of Chemistry ( 1960–63 ) and vice-president ( 1963–64 ) , chairman of the Essex Section ( 1967–68 ) , and for many years a member of other institute committees . |