Example sentences of "council for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a leader of the National Council for the Displaced . |
| 2 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England have warned that if current destruction rates continue then by the year 2025 , 50% of the 5000 SSSIs will be irrevocably damaged . |
| 3 | Richard Bates , senior planner for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , said it was clear Mr Patten was weighing the balance in favour of countryside protection . |
| 4 | Beethoven ( Sonata Op12 No3 ) , Schumann ( Romances Op94 , Sonata Op105 No1 ) , Stravinsky ( Suite Italienne ) 4pm Barbican £5-£12.50 Bach Vespers Cantata 38 ( Aus tiefer Not ) , plus Vivaldi ( Double Violin Concerto ) in context of Lutheran service 7pm St Anne 's , Gresham St , The City NORWICH FESTIVAL Dorothy Tutin joins the Endymion Ensemble for Saint- Saens 's Carnival of the Animals and Poulenc 's Babar the Elephant , plus Ibert , Milhaud 3pm St Andrew 's Hall £2-£8. l TUESDAY Verdi Requiem ECO and Tallis Chamber Choir with soloists Jo Ann Pickens , Sarah Walker , Jeffrey Talbot , Gwynne Howell 7.30pm Royal Naval College Chapel , King William Walk , Greenwich SE10 £5.50-£9 ( 317 8687 ) Olli Mustonen The brilliant young Finnish pianist-composer joins fellow Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Philharmonia for a Grand Gala in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England : Ravel 's breezy G major Piano Concerto is framed by aptly Green pieces by Vaughan Williams ( Greensleeves Fantasia ) and Stravinsky ( Le Sacre du Printemps ) 7.30pm RFH £18 incl donation ; £35-£125 incl reception and private view of Legacy exhibition ( 12 photographers ' views of Britain 's countryside ) NORWICH FESTIVAL The Field of Cloth of Gold : A musical celebration of the 1520 meeting between Henry VIII and Francois I of France , played on period instruments by Musica Antiqua of London 7.30pm Cathedral £2.50-£7.50 ( 0603-618499 ) LES PARISIENNES Pianist Diana Ambache and her Ambache Chamber Orchestra offer musical portraits of four femmes de Paris — two of them composers , two of them inspirations for the compositions of others . |
| 5 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent this evening attended a Gala Evening in aid of the Council for the Protection of Rural England at the Royal Festival Hall . |
| 6 | I was told by Mary Dines , former General Secretary of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants , that , in the past , ‘ it was a fairly frequent occurrence that these young girls , straight from their grandmothers ' houses , would be taken to Holloway prison , their pubic hair shaved off , and examined for VD . ’ |
| 7 | He is an architect who works in London during the week ; he also runs a landscape consultancy business called Drake and Lynch ; is a member of the Hardy Plant Society ; and is the holder of the National Collection of Aquilegias , under the auspices of the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens . |
| 8 | He also warned that a future application by the council for the children 's adoption against their mother 's wishes might succeed . |
| 9 | Evidence collected by the Council for the Protection of Rural England shows that assurances given by ministers — including John Gummer , now Minister of Agriculture — have been watered down . |
| 10 | Hazel 's collection of more than 2,000 pelargoniums , designated a national collection by the National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens , is endlessly fascinating . |
| 11 | For the past seven years , he has been President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England . |
| 12 | Mr Ben Plowden , energy and minerals campaigner for the Council for the Protection of Rural England , said : ‘ There could be no worse time to allow an extension to Whatley when major changes in national minerals policy are almost inevitable . ’ |
| 13 | But Mr Davies , who leaves behind a lower paid £85,000 at the commission , conceded he would have little difficulty in signing up for the business priorities agreed by the CBI 's governing council for the incoming government . |
| 14 | He proposed the establishment of a funding council for the grant-maintained sector and safeguards to prevent disputes over the running of schools , as had occurred recently at Stratford School in east London . |
| 15 | British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England have therefore co-operated to make the site more readily accessible and understandable to the public . |
| 16 | In 1970 an agreement was reached between British Waterways Board , Leicestershire County Council , and the Leicestershire Branch of the Council for the Protection of Rural England to make part of the site accessible to the public and , so far as possible , to clear sufficient of the track to enable people to get some idea of how the system had been constructed and how it operated . |
| 17 | The Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) also opposed the plan , extolling the ‘ quite extraordinary atmosphere of uninhabited remoteness ’ which was about to be disrupted . |
| 18 | These ranged from the high-profile national bodies like Friends of the Earth , Greenpeace and the Council for the Protection of Rural England , who all had professional advocates to put their case , through to smaller but persistent participants like the South Wales Women 's Support Groups ( defending the interests of mining communities ) and the Irish Sea Project ( concerned about marine pollution ) . |
| 19 | An analysis by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) showed that less than a year after the first structural concrete was poured , the project was already £136 million over budget . |
| 20 | It is important to contact the Council for the Care of Churches , 83 London Wall , London EC2M 5NA . |
| 21 | If you think the church you are concerned about is ‘ Fund-worthy ’ , find out what the Council for the Care of Churches and the national societies feel about its quality and do all the lobbying you can . |
| 22 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 23 | The National Council for the Aged in the Republic of Ireland reports that in a sample of schoolchildren 62 per cent felt they had a friendly relationship with older people in general . |
| 24 | According to the Council for the Protection of Rural England , some 120,000 miles of hedgerow have been lost since 1947 and this accelerated during the 1980s and there is no evidence that this rate of loss has slowed down ( in spite of the continued popularity of fox hunting ) . |
| 25 | The National Trust owns it now , but it is not open to the public as it is rented to the Council for the Promotion of Field Studies . |
| 26 | In early 1987 Richmond CAB , with the help of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants ( JCWI ) applied to the Commission for Racial Equality ( CRE ) for funding for a new project based at Latchmere House Remand Centre . |
| 27 | CPRE ( Council for the Preservation of Rural England ) — villages and countryside |
| 28 | In the former camp , organisations such as the Council for the Protection of Rural England vigorously protest at any threat to the Green Belt and argue that derelict , or ‘ brown ’ sites within it should be restored rather than handed over to developers . |
| 29 | However , the Council for the Protection of Rural England predicts massive pressures for development throughout the south east and is naturally campaigning to resist them . |
| 30 | However , organisations like the Council for the Protection of Rural England are likely to remain opposed to further rural housing development which it sees as both socially and environmentally damaging . |