Example sentences of "[art] [adj] rivers [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name Snaith is thought to mean ‘ enclosed by water ’ and the area is known locally as the Three Rivers area . |
| 2 | The Three Rivers star made no mistake with a chip and a par putt from four feet to seal victory and a third round tie away at Romford . |
| 3 | While we 're bailing out our basements and replanting the trees in the garden after the floods , the nuts at the National Rivers Board tell us we 're still in a drought . |
| 4 | Oil giant Shell UK appeared in court at Birkenhead , Merseyside yesterday charged with polluting the River Mersey in the first major case brought by the new pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority . |
| 5 | The National Rivers Authority confirmed that ‘ hundreds if not thousands ’ of salmon , sea trout and brown trout had died in a two-mile stretch of the River Erme at Ivybridge , south Devon . |
| 6 | I also find it quite interesting that the National Rivers Authority are urging people not to overreact to the problem . |
| 7 | BW , MAFF and the National Rivers Authority have also been invited . |
| 8 | The association 's concerns have been backed by the National Rivers Authority who said in a letter : ‘ The site and building is on the flood plane of the River Eden and the flooding of the area and the building can not be discounted . ’ |
| 9 | As reported exclusively in Angler 's Mail , Kent-based Ashford AS gave up 12 miles of the canal after 88 years tenancy because of a long-running row with the National Rivers Authority 's Southern region . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The National Rivers Authority in Wales has called for a ban on conifer plantations in sensitive areas , but Nicholas Luard and the Bara Ceirch group feel they need to act more quickly to save the river . |
| 12 | BRITAIN can not reach European standards for safe bathing beaches because of salmonella in the water , the Government 's pollution watchdog , the National Rivers Authority , said yesterday . |
| 13 | Instead of all the new controls being policed by the National Rivers Authority some of the responsibility was being handed over to Her Majesty 's Inpsector of Pollution , with decisions being taken by the Department of Environment . |
| 14 | The National Rivers Authority , the new post privatisation watchdog for the water industry , is proud of its role in publicising the problem of blue-green algae . |
| 15 | An unreported incident in which 20 army officer cadets were taken to hospital during the summer after canoeing in a lake at Leek , Staffordshire , has convinced the National Rivers Authority that Britain faces a serious algae problem . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The division of responsibilities between HMIP and other polution agencies , particularly the National Rivers Authority is still in dispute . |
| 18 | In addition to the secretary of state for the environment , the director-general of water services , and the EC commissioners , regulators include the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( which has already stepped in to prevent unwelcome mergers ) ; the local authorities ( responsible for monitoring and controlling the standard of clean water supplies ) ; the Drinking Water Inspectorate ( the auditor of technical standards ) ; the National Rivers Authority ( responsible for monitoring and controlling pollution in rivers , lakes and coastal waters , and for maintaining sea walls ) ; Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , HMIP ( which grants consents for the release of toxic substances into the environment ) ; and the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( responsible for granting consents for disposals at sea ) . |
| 19 | The Royal Society for Nature Conservation called on the next government to give the National Rivers Authority powers to veto thirsty building and industrial developments , and to make more water available for rivers and wetlands . |
| 20 | However , it was not on the priority list of 20 rivers singled out for urgent action by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 21 | Both the Thames Region and the Southern Region of the National Rivers Authority yesterday appealed to consumers to save water after levels in chalk boreholes in the Chilterns , Berkshire Downs and North and South Downs sank below the levels of the 1976 drought . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The House of Lords EC subcommittee on the environment has heard evidence from the CBI , the Chemical Industries Association ( CIA ) , HM Inspectorate of Pollution ( HMIP ) and the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) , as well as Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) . |
| 24 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has announced proposals for a scheme to fight pollution and improve the water environment in England and Wales . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | This proposed setting up ‘ nitrate sensitive areas ’ ( NSAs ) in which sources are at or over 50 mg/litre , to be identified by the National Rivers Authority . |
| 27 | The newspaper pointed out that , while Nicholas Ridley had created the National Rivers Authority to oversee the state of river water , he had refused to create a similar body to monitor tapwater and bring prosecution of polluters . |
| 28 | Public registers are now provided by bodies such as the National Rivers Authority and Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution . |
| 29 | We will establish a new Environment Agency which will bring together the functions of the National Rivers Authority , Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution and the waste regulation functions of local authorities . |
| 30 | Furthermore , full discussions with the National Rivers Authority have ensured that the water taken will not detract from the overall beauty of the Falls , and neither will the mosses and other flora be affected . |