Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [to-vb] the ec " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pesticide levels will be allowed to exceed the EC limits until at least 31 December 2000 . |
| 2 | The European Parliament ( EP ) on June 13 adopted a report by its members warning that the proposed EES must not be allowed to compromise the EC 's autonomy of decision-making , undermine the EP 's powers or affect the pace of economic and political integration in the EC . |
| 3 | The Friendship , Co-operation and Mutual Assistance Treaty , first signed in 1948 [ see p. 9228 ] , bound Finland to a military defence pact and prevented it from joining any international organization whose members posed a military threat to the Soviet Union — a definition which had been taken to include the EC . |
| 4 | Partly it is designed to help the EC pursue a ‘ high degree of convergence of economic performance . ’ |
| 5 | The CAP was designed to help the EC 's 14 million farmers : instead , it promotes inefficient farmers at the expense of the efficient UK farmer , destroys the international market to the detriment of the Third World and cheats EC taxpayers . |
| 6 | Despite the huge profits made by tobacco companies , in 1991 £900m was spent to subsidise the EC 's production of tobacco . |