Example sentences of "[being] [verb] [prep] the european [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as the 2lst century requires a more diffused and safer balance of interest in what needs to be an increasingly multilateral global village , there is a risk of economic , institutional and political power being centralised in the European Community , and that a new bout of economic empire-building may occur . |
| 2 | Bristol , Avon-based Meiko Ltd has installed one of its expandable 3.2GFlops CS-2 parallel processing systems at Southampton University : the system will initially be used by the University 's Concurrent Computation Group to evaluate the portable programming system being developed under the European Community 's Esprit-3 research programme , but is to be expanded to provide a central computing resource for molecular and computational dynamics research and for developing applications with the university 's industrial partners . |
| 3 | The first step in forging an alliance of Euro-Parliamentarians would be for national MPs to be invited to the special hearings on changes to the Rome Treaty being organised by the European Parliament . |
| 4 | The draft directive is currently being considered by the European Parliament . |
| 5 | , The latest proposals on recycling being considered by the European Commission call for 90 per cent of all Europe 's packaging to be reused , recycled , or burnt in energy-generating plants , within 10 years . |
| 6 | A fresh attempt is being made by the European Commission to settle an EC institutional dispute over titanium dioxide pollution . |
| 7 | That means that the irrelevant suggestions being made by the European Commission for mandatory information for and consultation with employees would bear much more heavily on British business than it would on our major competitors . |
| 8 | With all hope of a second successive title gone , Silver revealed the huge psychological blow still being felt from the European Cup defeat by Rangers . |
| 9 | A pensions directive is currently being prepared by the European Commission and it will require extremely careful consideration if it is to achieve the desired effect of not restricting labour mobility with the European Community . |
| 10 | SLOWLY but surely , Italy 's banking system is being transformed by the European Community 's single market in financial services . |
| 11 | Will the Minister explain why , if the Environmental Protection Act 1990 is so wonderful , the Government are being dragged to the European Court for failing to comply with Community legislation on water standards and air pollution control ? |
| 12 | The case is being brought by the European Commission because the beaches at Blackpool and Southport , two of the country 's main seaside resorts , do not meet EC standards . |
| 13 | He suggested that Hungary may act as a support centre for Data General 's entire Eastern European operations , while a local manufacturing site could help the company secure more of the large projects currently being financed under the European Community 's PHARE scheme — European-based suppliers are favoured under PHARE criteria . |
| 14 | JAPANESE , American and other foreign scientists are being asked by the European Commission to sit in judgement on the effectiveness of the EEC 's £250 million annual research programme . |
| 15 | Is the Minister aware that last week in Brussels Madame Scrivener , the relevant Commissioner , assured me that there was no question of our being forced by the European Community to extend the coverage of VAT , and that we can not be forced so to do ? |
| 16 | The Motorcycle Action Group , which organised the event , claims the ideas currently being discussed by the European Commission are ‘ unjust and unfair ’ and will hit small bike manufacturers . |
| 17 | Italy 's failure to implement EC directives have resulted in it being taken to the European Court of Justice more times than any other country in 1989 . |
| 18 | And it 's the latest example of farming diversification which is being encouraged by the European Community . |
| 19 | The bulk of our assistance is being directed through the European Community technical and emergency assistance pro-grammes . |
| 20 | SIR — Your leading article ( Nature 361 , 192 ; 1993 ) on the patenting of transgenic plants illustrates some of the complexities being faced by the European Patent Office from applications to patent transgenic agricultural plants and animals . |
| 21 | The project is being funded by the European Community 's STRIDE programme , computer firm ICL and the university . |
| 22 | Recommendations from energy experts for sharp cuts in energy consumption by refrigerators are being ignored by the European Commission , which is seeking to reduce fridge and freezer energy consumption by 10 per cent by 1 January 1997 . |
| 23 | The effect of data protection legislation , especially directives being debated within the European Parliament , will be to exacerbate this problem . |
| 24 | Particular concern surrounded US complaints over the EC subsidies being paid to the European Airbus project — a joint development by France , Germany , Spain and the UK . |