Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] authority " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ministry of Agriculture has overall responsibility , but operational control lies with the National Rivers Authority and district councils . |
| 2 | Added to a National Rivers Authority grant of £100,000 , it 's enabled 3 weirs to be restored . |
| 3 | Water pollution incidents reported to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) reached a record high in 1990 . |
| 4 | A total of 28,143 water pollution incidents were reported to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in 1990 , of which 658 ( 2.3 per cent ) were deemed as sufficiently serious to merit legal action . |
| 5 | The weir will be the second of its kind on the river and was designed by the National Rivers Authority to keep gravel spawning beds clear of silt . |
| 6 | They were being addressed by the National Rivers Authority environmental quality manager , Mr Malcolm Colley . |
| 7 | Water Guardian ( pictured above ) is a 16.5m floating laboratory built for the National Rivers Authority to monitor water samples from Berwick to Flamborough Head . |
| 8 | AUTUMN-drilled crops in Scotland and the north of England have come through the winter best , according to the Home-Grown Cereals Authority . |
| 9 | Exceptionally low rainfall , particularly across southern Britain , has made a fourth consecutive year of drought very likely , according to the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) and water supply companies . |
| 10 | A record number of water pollution incidents were reported in England and Wales last year , according to the National Rivers Authority . |
| 11 | Locks weirs and boats need to be treated with respect according to the National Rivers Authority , but there are still some people who put themselves at risk by behaving foolishly . |
| 12 | The tests done by the National Rivers Authority are different from those that we are doing . |
| 13 | The 90 box , bat ’ estate ’ was built by the National Rivers Authority at Shifford Lock in Oxfordshire . |
| 14 | The fragmentation of water and electricity industries , further privatization of water and electricity in Northern Ireland and water in Scotland , market testing in the National Rivers Authority , changes in British Gas with four reports to come from the Monopolies and Mergers Commission in July . |
| 15 | More than 13,000 bundles of brushwood , harvested by coppicing hazel and willow trees , are being supplied to the National Rivers Authority through the Anglian Woodland Project which is supported by the region 's county councils . |
| 16 | Any approval by Cork County Council will be appealed to the new Appeals Authority set up by the Minister for Local Government ; |
| 17 | The number of water pollution incidents in England and Wales rose by 4 per cent in 1992 to a total of 23,331 , according to official statistics produced by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 18 | A report 's been commissioned by the National Rivers Authority and carried out by a group of local councils . |
| 19 | Friends of the Earth has described the situation as scandalous , and called on the National Rivers Authority to prevent further seepage . |
| 20 | The Institute of Environmental Assessment ( IEA ) was set up by Dr Tim Coles , who worked for the National Rivers Authority , to act as an impartial and independent watchdog and to raise the standard of environmental impact assessments and statements , which — under European law — must be submitted to planning authorities with planning applications . |
| 21 | There was a complex web of landing and departure agreements to be negotiated with the British Airports Authority : maintenance and service contracts to be drawn up . |
| 22 | But despite the company 's own long-running antipollution programme the final lever to a clean River Tees looks like being what the company calls the ‘ very tough targets ’ set by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 23 | Although difficult to meet , the consent limits set by the National Rivers Authority are consistent with ICI ; s plans to cut discharges by half by 1995 but call into question the viability of some Teesside plants . |
| 24 | The second prosecution was brought by the National Rivers Authority after a mistake had caused chemicals to overflow from a storage tank , leading to a concentration of copper in the works discharge pipe of more than 17 times the legal limit . |
| 25 | The scheme proposed by the National Rivers Authority is designed to prevent flooding caused by a repeat of the 1947 event . |
| 26 | Produced by Food from Britain and supported by the Home-Grown Cereals Authority , 250,000 leaflets were distributed via the eggs and bakery ingredients departments , backed up by special price offers on selected items . |
| 27 | The increases have been introduced as part of the " polluter pays " principle and are intended to cover the costs incurred by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) in controlling water pollution . |
| 28 | A warning was issued by the National Rivers Authority in Shrewsbury that the swollen River Severn was expected to burst its banks overnight for the second time in a week . |
| 29 | If necessary flood warnings will be issued by the National Rivers Authority and police will try to warn residents using local radio , television and loud hailer vans touring risk areas . |
| 30 | Altogether 63 waters containing toxic algal blooms were identified by the National Rivers Authority , 37 of them in Anglian Region and 10 in the South West . |