Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the european [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Students have been placed with the European Secretariat in Luxembourg , with Amnesty International , Oxfam , Third World Development agencies , and with parliamentary representatives , thus combining theoretical studies with practical work experience .
2 It is called H.261 ( or , sometimes , px64 ) and has been formulated by the European Commission 's Consultative Committee on International Telephony and Telegraphy ( CCITT ) .
3 The code of practice has been formulated by the European Community .
4 The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow .
5 The move meant that the krone , which had been pegged to the European currency unit since October 1990 [ see p. 37782 ] , was effectively devalued by 5 per cent .
6 The argument has been considered by the European Court of Justice in Torfaen Borough Council v. B. & Q. Plc .
7 The process is as follows : the Commission makes proposals which are considered by the European Council and the Council of Ministers .
8 She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights .
9 She says , over 500 people are meeting at the European Parliament in Brussels today , to talk about disabled people 's human rights .
10 The first such patent has recently been granted by the European Patent Office to a Belgian company for any crop resistant to the herbicide Basta .
11 However , this feature is even more evident in Grampian where 65% of exports are destined for the European Community , compared with 58% for Scotland as a whole .
12 However , many projects — from America and Japan in particular — are destined for the European market .
13 Mickey Spielberg , Disney 's chief imagineer , told me that some adjustments have been made for the European park , especially in the type of catering provided .
14 A further four have been made by the European Community and through the United Nations .
15 BRITAIN HAS been instructed by the European Community to suspend immediately key provisions of the 1988 Merchant Shipping Act , designed to repel a 100- strong armada of Spanish vessels fishing in United Kingdom waters .
16 In view of the fears expressed about the possibility of serious restrictions being placed on the availability of certain nutritional supplements as a result of the new EC regulations , will the Minister give us an assurance that the Government will conduct far wider and genuine consultations on the discussion paper that has been produced by the European Commission ?
17 We are leading in the European Community , rather than allowing others to lead us .
18 Four companies — Siemens AG , L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Alcatel NV and Northern Telecom Ltd will share a $230m project to modernise parts of Bulgaria 's telephone system : the quartet has been approved by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the European Investment Bank ; the project is to digitise trunk and international telephone lines , as the first phase of a more thorough modernisation .
19 The British seaside resort of Blackpool has been condemned by the European Court of Justice for the quality of water off its bathing beaches .
20 The excellence of the programme has been recognised by the European Community which aids the project through the European Social Fund , and staff at the Centre share their expertise with colleagues in training centres in Ireland and the Netherlands .
21 This year has been scheduled by the European Commission as European Year of Older People and Solidarity between Generations , and age discrimination and the employment of older workers is emerging as a major public policy issue .
22 That is to be expected , given that its decisions are based on the European Convention of Human Rights .
23 Leaders of Britain 's freight industry are calling on the European Commission to help free U K truck drivers trapped by road blocks on the French Spanish border .
24 It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission .
25 Once the British had been driven from the European mainland , they had lost virtually all of the general intelligence that armies gather on their enemy 's positions , his deployment , and his defences .
26 They produce beef that no one will buy at the price at which they want to sell it , so they are subsidised by the European taxpayer to dump it in West Africa , where it destroys the livelihoods of poor farmers .
27 A LINK-up between Gillette and Wilkinson Sword has been axed by the European Commission .
28 Michael Smith writes : Radical plans to privatise parts of the European railway system and help switch freight to rail has been proposed by the European Commission .
29 The obligation of Member States to provide for and impose real and effective sanctions in respect of a breach of Community law has been derived by the European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) from two fundamental Community law principles : the principle of co-operation and the principle of effective judicial protection .
30 Can the species Homo erectus be recognized in the European fossil record ?
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