Example sentences of "of the council [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So 1986 was elected a member of the Council for Ward . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union , holding the presidency of the Council for September , had urged that the meeting be held at ministerial rather than the customary ambassadorial level , and all but two of the 15 members responded by sending their Foreign Ministers . |
| 3 | The Forward Look backed up by the Technology Foresight Programme , under the overall direction of the Council for Science and Technology , can provide a firm base on which to built an effective national science and technology policy . |
| 4 | In December a meeting was held in Brussels , Belgium , of the Council for Yugoslavia-EC co-operation , at which Foreign Minister Loncar met with his EC counterparts . |
| 5 | And that video can be obtained from Tavistock Church , in Tavistock Place it costs twelve pound fifty , with one pound fifty postage erm , but I think that it has been recommended to us and a number of the provinces have asked for copies to be made available and then maybe there are some churches within our provence that might like to have that video so that they can draw the attention of their churches to the work of the Council for World Mission . |
| 6 | He is governor of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a member of the Council for Industry $ Higher Education . |
| 7 | The Chancellor had shortened his stay in Bangkok , where he was attending a meeting of the International Monetary Fund , to open the conference , and speakers included Patrick Coldstream , the Director of the Council for Industry and Higher Education , Tim Eggar , one of the Department of Education and Science Ministers , Sir Michael Angus , the Vice-Chancellor and Dr Celia Russo from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chausées . |
| 8 | Is my hon. Friend aware that while Derbyshire county council 's policies have led to the redundancies of hundreds of teachers recently , and while Derbyshire is the only county in England to have fewer policemen than 10 years ago , none the less the county council 's job creation priorities have managed to find no fewer than three posts at £40,000 per annum for former Labour councillors and Members of Parliament , the council leader has fitted himself up with a job at an annual equivalent salary of £40,000 , the leader of the Derbyshire Labour party — one David Skinner — has been given a job as a minder to Japanese business men despite being kicked out of the council for corruption 15 years ago , and his wife has been given a job at £23,000 per annum in the council 's bloated publicity department ? |
| 9 | A decision that a local authority should take proceedings for libel , if the action were available at law , would probably be made by the majority of councillors in defence of the reputation of the council with reference to conduct for which that majority might be responsible ; and the proceedings would be conducted at the expense of the local taxpayers . |
| 10 | It will be able to negotiate directly with the Council on proposed amendments rather than going through the Commission and , in the last resort , it will be able to reject the agreed position of the Council on legislation , although it is unlikely to do so often . |
| 11 | Having received from Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle advice that the dismissal was valid , the Lord President of the Council on behalf of Her Majesty dismissed the petition . |
| 12 | Charlton 's directors hope to meet the leader of the council on Thursday to clarify the position . |
| 13 | They were sufficiently impressed by his abilities to request in 1829 that he be relieved of his military duties and appointed president of the council of government on the Gold Coast . |
| 14 | As head of the Council of Government the Minister of State exercises executive power under the monarch , while legislative authority resides with the National Council elected every five years by universal adult suffrage , most recently in January 1988 [ see p. 36161 ] . |
| 15 | As head of the Council of Government the Minister of State exercises executive power under the Prince , while legislative authority resides with the 18-member National Council , elected every five years by universal suffrage . |
| 16 | It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] . |
| 17 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 18 | Even the decrees of the Council of Clermont in 1095 , to which he sent Boso as his envoy , and from which through illness Boso did not immediately return , remained unknown to him and went unheeded in practice for several years . |
| 19 | Theudebert I authorized the meeting of the Council of Clermont in 535 : the council started with prayers for the king , and it addressed a petition to him . |
| 20 | In 1549 , two years after the close of the first session of the Council of Trent — the Council whose stupendous achievements encompassed the comprehensive definition of Catholic doctrine and the unchallengeable assertion of papal power , and which has been described as the creator of the modern Catholic church — John Hamilton , archbishop of St Andrews since 1547 , held the first of his own reforming councils . |
| 21 | In his sermon on passion Sunday in 1687 he spoke of blasphemies , perfidy and superstition in such a way as to be understood to be referring , Evelyn relates , ‘ to the Romish priests and the new religion of the Council of Trent ’ . |
| 22 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 23 | Although not a single document had yet been approved , he hoped all would be over by Christmas 1963 , the 400th anniversary of the Council of Trent . |
| 24 | This need for verbal intelligibility was recognized not only by the Reformers in the Lutheran hymns and Calvinist psalm-settings but by the semi-Reformers ( Cranmer 's view that the musical setting of his translation of the liturgy in 1544 should ‘ not be full of notes , but , as near as may be , for every syllable a note , so that it may be sung distinctly and devoutly ’ ) and the Counter-Reformers ( the direction of the Council of Trent in 1562 that the words of the Mass ‘ should be uttered clearly and perfectly , and sink quietly into the ears and hearts of the hearers ’ , not with music ‘ contrived for the empty delight of the ears ’ ) . |
| 25 | The polls show the party up and Mulroney down , ’ said Maude Barlow , chairwoman of the Council of Canadians , a longtime opponent of Mr Mulroney 's trade policies . |
| 26 | O'BRIEN claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland — in which members of the Stormont executive and Dublin government were to meet . |
| 27 | O'Brien claims credit for being the only member of Dublin 's coalition government team at Sunningdale in 1973 to warn about the destructive effect of the Council of Ireland |
| 28 | Any decision on whether to change the criteria so that smaller mergers would be automatically referred to the Commission will be taken by a qualified majority of the Council of Ministers . |
| 29 | The deputy chairman of the council of ministers , Boris Shcherbina , forbade evacuation of the countryside around Chernobyl until a government commission had arrived from Moscow . |
| 30 | When it landed , the Americans had no steps tall enough to reach it , a gratifying start except for the fact that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and his party had to climb down an emergency ladder hand over hand . |