Example sentences of "council [unc] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your report today ( earlier editions ) on Berwickshire District Council 's plans to sell 2,200 council houses makes interesting reading , especially as the proposed housing association is to operate at arms length . |
| 2 | You will recall that at an Open Meeting in May 1987 governing bodies were provided with details of the Council 's plans to move to new office premises at South Gyle , Edinburgh . |
| 3 | In Northamptonshire , the NCC is opposing Kettering District Council 's plans to build Cransley Lodge , a village planned to include 750 houses by 1997 . |
| 4 | They are considering strike action over York City Council 's plans to make six architectural staff redundant and downgrade three others . |
| 5 | Residents on the Skerne Park estate , Darlington , say Durham County Council 's plans to reduce the speed limit and introduce speed humps on Lakeside would improve road safety . |
| 6 | Residents from Lakeside , Darlington , said Durham County Council 's plans to narrow their road and add speed humps could lead to serious accidents . |
| 7 | Committees and forums were set up inside the local authority , the local Trades Council and the local Labour Party , and together they formulated the idea of a new Employment Department to co-ordinate all the council 's efforts to tackle the economic crisis in the city . |
| 8 | Election monitoring , human rights verification and the repatriation of refugees have … been integral parts of the Security Council 's efforts to maintain international peace and security . " |
| 9 | Appraisals of their Specially Promoted Programmes , Co-operative Research Grants and Teaching Companies Schemes , the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme , and the balance between academic research and industrial research on materials technology have been completed , as well as an assessment of the effectiveness of the Council 's efforts to transfer knowledge of the results of its research projects to industry . |
| 10 | Throughout the 1970s all of these elements were to feature in the Council 's attempts to find the appropriate balances under its Charter , and to handle the increasingly complex range of subjects and institutions . |
| 11 | The warning comes after confusion among some council employees and taxi drivers about Darlington Borough Council 's powers to enforce parking tickets on the land . |
| 12 | Twenty phone lines have been set up in Aberconwy council 's offices to give advice to victims . |
| 13 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 14 | • councils ' powers to act |