Example sentences of "council [prep] [noun pl] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the Borough Council as agents for the County Council has done what they can to offset problems and the scope for further measures is limited . |
| 2 | On 10 November the Council of Ministers for the Internal Market of the EEC reached agreement on two measures regarding the circulation of cultural goods as from 1993 . |
| 3 | The Regulation governing another sensitive area , the export of ‘ cultural goods ’ from the EEC , was finally agreed in Brussels , along with the Directive ( see pp. 1–2 ) , by the Council of Ministers for the internal market , on 10 November . |
| 4 | On his return from Baghdad on Jan. 14 Pérez de Cuéllar consulted in Paris with Jacques Poos , the Luxembourg Foreign Minister and President of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 . |
| 5 | The Luxembourg government , which held the presidency of the Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , presented a redrafted draft union treaty on June 20 . |
| 6 | Japanese Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu , EC Commission President Jacques Delors and Ruud Lubbers , the Netherlands Prime Minister who held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1991 , held their first formal EC-Japanese summit in The Hague on July 18 immediately after the London G-7 summit [ see pp. 38321-22 ] . |
| 7 | Austria , which chaired the European Free Trade Area ( EFTA ) Council of Ministers for the first half of 1991 , continued to press for agreement with the EC on a common European economic area ( EEA ) [ see pp. 38353 ; 38307 ] , which Economic Affairs Minister Schüssel described in January 1991 as " an important interim step … along the path to full [ EC ] membership " . |
| 8 | The proposal , which was for a referendum on the dissolution of the Byelarus Supreme Soviet , was denounced in a statement by the Council of Ministers on March 4 as an attempt to increase " social tension and confrontation " by blaming the Supreme Soviet and the Council of Ministers for the recent drop in living standards . |
| 9 | The Commission had pressed for a 35 per cent reduction , while the latest compromise proposal by the Portuguese government ( which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the first half of 1992 ) argued for a reduction of 27 per cent . |
| 10 | Late on Sept. 20 UK Prime Minister John Major ( whose country held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 ) announced that he would call an emergency summit to discuss ratification of the Treaty and to " deal with the particular problems in the foreign exchange markets in recent days , that have revealed shortcomings in the exchange rate mechanism system " . |
| 11 | John Major , Prime Minister of the United Kingdom , which held the presidency of the EC Council of Ministers for the second half of 1992 , declared that Edinburgh would " be remembered as the summit that put the Community back together " . |
| 12 | Two years later Francis Joseph showed that his controlling influence was a reality when , during the Balkan crisis of 1913 , he ignored the demand of the entire council of ministers for the presentation of an ultimatum to Montenegro . |
| 13 | Traffic concern : Parish councillors are to write to the borough council and Durham County Council over plans for the new cattle market at Roundhill Road . |