Example sentences of "[adj] report by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly , we had the 1985 Report by the then Association of Health Service Treasurers on managing capital assets in the NHS ( AHST , 1985 ) , in the light of which work is under way at three DHAs on setting up comprehensive asset systems . |
| 2 | Agricultural unemployment among farmers and their employees will continue to grow , according to an official report by the European Commission . |
| 3 | It really is not good enough for a spokesman for the official Opposition to come here in spite , without reading the official report by the independent advisory committee . |
| 4 | An official report by the National Human Rights Commission accused Morán of ignoring repeated requests from the local federal police to stop his soldiers firing at the agents who were trying to intercept an aircraft later discovered to be carrying some 360 kg of cocaine from Colombia to Mexico . |
| 5 | The number of " major " incidents of water pollution declined by 41 per cent in 1991 , from 658 to 386 , according to figures contained in the second annual report by the National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) . |
| 6 | The report itself was in the usual format comprising a report by the county treasurer , a joint report by the chief executive and county treasurer , and then the detailed estimate contained on the blue pages . |
| 7 | A February 1991 report by the environmental pressure group Greenpeace found that despite the March 1989 signing of a convention on the international transport and disposal of hazardous waste [ see p. 36541 ] industrialized countries continued to export their toxic waste . |
| 8 | This offer of appointment is subject to a satisfactory report by the Regional Council 's Medical Adviser . |
| 9 | A national report by the second largest teaching union says its members are being increasingly driven to drink and drugs because of stress . |
| 10 | We have in the Home Office a copy of the very helpful report by the chief constable of Northumbria and we have also been greatly assisted by the work of the members of the Police Federation , who have co-operated in the analysis of the serious problem of offending on bail . |
| 11 | Official recognition of the need for gaol reform dates back to 1919 , when a major report by the Indian Jails Committee heralded a change in government pronouncements about the aims of imprisonment , renouncing the retributive philosophy which had been enshrined in police and legislation since the report of Lord Macauley 's prison Disciplinary Committee in 1838 . |
| 12 | In early March a confidential report by the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) reportedly called for long-overdue structural reforms and a broad-based austerity package to be introduced after the April election . |
| 13 | According to a Feb. 18 report by the Soviet news agency Tass , the MDP would be " backed " by the MDU in its struggle to establish a multiparty system in Mongolia . |
| 14 | It gives me great pleasure to commend to the House the fourth report by the Select Committee on Social Security . |
| 15 | A 600-page report by the Australian Securities Commission into the collapse of Alan Bond 's financial empire may never be made public following a federal government decision that publication may prejudice pending criminal trials . |
| 16 | The article ‘ Scientists disagree and the seal hunt goes on ’ ( This Week , 2 December , p 547 ) distorts the recent report by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea ( ICES ) on harp and hooded seals in the north-west Atlantic . |
| 17 | A recent report by the Central Research Unit of the Scottish Office describes the approach of Scottish policemen to rape cases . |
| 18 | They like a recent report by the Australian Manufacturing Council , which calls for the government to support industry and promote exports . |
| 19 | A recent report by the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) said the iodine-131 may have killed 13 people through cancer of the thyroid over a period of decades . |
| 20 | A recent report by the National Board of Water and the Environment accused many fur producers of ignoring environmental regulations . |
| 21 | A recent report by the Select Committee on Procedure criticised the abuse of this process for publicity purposes and recommended that the text of any bill proposed should be first lodged with the Public Bill Office . |
| 22 | Even the recent report by the Royal College of Physicians , which was coprepared by Kay , accepts that conventional treatment of allergy leaves patients dissatisfied because of inefficacy or side effects . |
| 23 | According to a recent report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) , the draining of British wetlands has caused irreversible environmental damage , threatening rare wildlife . |
| 24 | , A recent report by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has revealed that illegally-applied pesticides accounted for a total of 351 birds of prey and owls , and 435 dogs , in the years 1979-89 . |
| 25 | For example , over ‘ 150 million was paid out to investors in the failed Barlow Clowes investment group after an adverse report by the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration on the role of the Department of Trade in the affair . |
| 26 | A new report by the British Government recommends that overall dietary intakes of DEHA should be reduced and that it is unsuitable for cooking in microwave ovens . |
| 27 | A preliminary report by the Soviet Procurator General , Nikolai Trubin , on the events in Vilnius , the Lithuanian capital , on Jan. 13 , when 13 civilians were killed [ see pp. 37944-45 ] , was distributed to deputies at the USSR Supreme Soviet on June 3 . |
| 28 | However , politicians and human rights groups in Mexico , supported by a detailed June 1990 report by the US-based human rights group Americas Watch and by criticism from the US Congress , had accused the Federal Judicial police of over 800 cases of murder , torture , extortion and robbery during their anti-drug operations . |
| 29 | The latest report by the human rights office of the Archbishopric of Guatemala was issued in late July and covered the first six months of 1992 . |