Example sentences of "head of [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Domesday Book gives a good indication of the status of certain places as caputs at the heads of estates in the eleventh century . |
| 2 | Yeltsin was repeatedly in contact with heads of government during the days when the crisis was at its height . |
| 3 | Addressing the 12 heads of government at the start of the Strasbourg summit , Mr Enrique Baron , the Spanish Socialist who is Lord Henry Plumb 's successor as president of the parliament , urged the leaders to go all the way towards full European union provided it is ‘ based on the characteristics which we share in common — those of parliamentary democracy ’ . |
| 4 | THE 12 heads of government of the EC gather in Edinburgh today . |
| 5 | ON MAY 14th Boris Yeltsin told the heads of government of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) that Russia was ‘ ready to create a currency union as an indivisible part of an economic union ’ within the Commonwealth . |
| 6 | This short Act amounts to the United Kingdom 's formal approval of the agreement concluded by the heads of government of the Community countries in 1986 and known as the Single European Act , which makes important changes to the Treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | When the heads of government of the five ASEAN countries held their first meeting for eight years in February 1976 in Indo-China they failed to agree on regional security and the communiqué of the meeting did not mention neutralisation . |
| 8 | The three heads of government of the Baltic republics ( Prunskiene , Savisaar and the then Latvian Prime Minister Vilnis Bresis ) had met earlier , on April 12 in Vilnius , to sign a 10-year agreement on economic co-operation featuring plans to create a Baltic common market , with a Baltic Market Co-operation Council and commission to be based in Riga . |
| 9 | The heads of government of the seven major Western industrialized countries ( the Group of Seven or G-7 ) held their 16th annual summit in Houston , United States , on July 9-11 . |
| 10 | The 11th meeting of the heads of government of the 13 member states of CARICOM , the Caribbean Community , was held on July 31-Aug. 2 in Kingston , Jamaica . |
| 11 | The heads of government of the Organization of East Caribbean States ( OECS , an associate institution of CARICOM ) met in Dominica at the end of May 1990 . |
| 12 | Heads of government of the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) Western industrialized countries held their 17th annual economic summit in London on July 15-17 [ for 1990 summit see p. 37629 ] . |
| 13 | The eight heads of government of the republics forming the economic community , formed on Oct. 18 [ see p. 38537 ] , had postponed indefinitely their meeting due to open on Dec. 18 because of " the uncertainty of the political situation " . |
| 14 | Heads of government of the six member states of the Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) convened in Singapore on Jan. 27-28 for the organization 's fourth summit meeting [ for third ASEAN summit held in December 1987 see pp. 35907-08 ] . |
| 15 | The third inter-sessional meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community ( CARICOM ) was held in Kingston , Jamaica , on Feb. 19 . |
| 16 | Chaired by Kennedy Simmonds , Prime Minister of St Christopher and Nevis , and attended by seven other heads of government of the ember states ( the remaining five delegations being headed by ministers ) , the meeting discussed regional integration and the progress made in six key areas since the 12th annual summit held in July 1991 [ see p. 38336 ] . |
| 17 | Natural resource management and women heads of household in the Sahel |
| 18 | Japanese kites , and there are almost a score here to set beside nearly 90 examples from China , tend to be either square or diamond-shaped and to be emblazoned with fearsome images of the heads of actors from the Kabuki stage . |
| 19 | Questionnaires were first designed with the assistance of the Equal Opportunities Commission and sent to samples of women and men barristers and Heads of Chambers at the Independent Bar . |
| 20 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 21 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 22 | The issue of workers ' rights found expression in a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers ( pp. 36668 ; 36985 ) which was resolutely opposed by the United Kingdom alone , but which received , in a modified form , the assent of all other heads of state at the Strasbourg summit on Dec. 8-9 , 1989 ( see pp. 37132-33 ) . |
| 23 | Although the Social Charter as signed on 9 December 1989 by all the Heads of State of the EC , excluding the UK , is of no legal effect , UK companies can not afford to ignore it . |
| 24 | Heads of state of the world 's richest countries flew into Rio this month on a mission to save the world . |
| 25 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 26 | The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen . |
| 27 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 28 | In the final communiqué , issued on Dec. 25 , of the meeting , which was attended by the heads of state of the six GCC countries , the GCC urged " the international community and the [ UN ] Security Council in particular to put more pressure on the Iraqi regime " for the implementation of UN resolutions . |
| 29 | The 14th summit meeting of the heads of state of the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes was held in Gisenyi , Rwanda , on Aug. 1 ; discussions concentrated on regional security which was declared to be the " first objective " of the community . |
| 30 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |