noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a council houseBritish English (= one owned by a local council that people can rent cheaply)
▪ The rent rise is a blow to council house tenants.
borough council
city council
council estate
council house
council of war
council tax
council/industrial/housing etc estate
county council
▪ Kent County Council
district council
Learning and Skills Council, the
legislative assembly/council/body etc (=one with the power to make laws)
▪ the main legislative body of the EC
local council
parish council
▪ elections to the parish council
Privy Council
town council
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
▪ Councillors complained that the full council should have been consulted before planning permission was given.
▪ Essentially, council subcommittee recommendations formulated the week of September 17 were accepted without question by the full council five days later.
▪ Coun Pendlebury told a meeting of the full county council yesterday that seven other schemes are in jeopardy.
▪ The subcommittee presented its recommendation to the full council on November 18, two weeks after the first public hearing.
▪ This board would receive wide delegated powers and be the sole channel through which business done in committees reached the full council.
▪ The statutory location of decision-making power in a local authority rests in the full council.
▪ Some councils therefore still insist on every committee decision being referred to the full council for confirmation or rejection.
▪ The full council will confirm the charges set on 4 March.
labour
▪ The proposal, put forward by Lothian, has the strong support of other big Labour council groups like Strathclyde and Tayside.
▪ It was the hope of central-government support that, on the whole, dominated thinking within Labour councils.
▪ The chapter of the way in which some Labour councils have behaved is well documented.
▪ They endeavoured, on a number of levels, to make themselves more accountable than previous Labour councils had been.
▪ By 1983-4, penalties on overspending authorities amounted to over £200 million - almost all of which fell on urban Labour councils.
▪ One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities.
▪ If you look at Oxford City, we have many Labour councillors on the Labour city council.
▪ We do in fact have control of the Labour city council.
legislative
▪ It provided for Kurdish legislative and executive councils, but real power was retained by the central government in Baghdad.
▪ Without a constitution, the powers of the legislative council are unclear.
local
▪ In April local councils acquired an important new power.
▪ An announcement is made: The local tenants' council has a meeting planned for Friday.
▪ With good will from Government, charities, housing associations and local councils, something may be done.
▪ With local councils deadlocked, King must decide.
▪ Hence, the argument runs, even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services.
▪ But the local council says it's being forced to cut back to meet Government spending limits.
▪ But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band - for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds.
national
▪ These are established through national joint councils, consisting of representatives of employers and employees, supplemented by local variations and agreements.
▪ The national security council heard calls for resources to be redirected from the elite nuclear forces to beef up conventional arms spending.
▪ A 105-member national council was also elected.
▪ The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.
▪ She was planning to work with the national examinations council in Kigali next year.
▪ But after a hurriedly arranged meeting, involving the national gipsy council, an uneasy truce was reached.
▪ His most relevant texts here are those on the national council held at Enham in Hampshire probably in 1008.
new
▪ But Powergen bosses have reacted quickly to the new council demands.
▪ Inside a community center, the new council members sat through three hours of speeches.
▪ The options costed by Touche Ross covered plans for 15, 24, 35 or 51 new councils.
▪ That means the new council should cast it.
▪ In the words of a working-class housewife living on a new council estate: It depends what you call friends.
▪ Gunnarson may have his hands full with what some critics of the new council majority describe as an aggressive and demanding bunch.
regional
▪ An official at Zaporizha's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately.
▪ The Council would be responsible for naming nine regional councils, each comprising three members including one opposition member.
▪ This week the local regional council, Lothian, revealed that over £25 million was outstanding.
▪ We have district councils and regional councils.
▪ We would also have to discuss the availability of regional council workers to man the helplines.
▪ Conservative regional council chiefs denounced the idea and declared their backing for Congress.
■ NOUN
borough
▪ Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council.
▪ The borough council recognises that its newer cemeteries such as Acklam and Thorntree are in need of attention.
▪ Alexei features in a 20minute video bought by the borough council for a major anti-vandalism campaign to be launched early next year.
▪ Cheltenham Borough council says it wants to save money to meet spending limits but no final decision has yet been made.
▪ District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways.
▪ Simply ask your borough council planning department, who will be able to advise you.
▪ Splashing out: Children in Hartlepool will soon be able to have more fun than ever, thanks to the borough council.
chamber
▪ This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall.
▪ She waited patiently in council chambers for about two hours for the issue to be taken up in executive session.
▪ No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber.
▪ Tribal members said there was standing room only in the council chamber, which holds about 60 people.
▪ Ambassador Richard Holbrooke into the council chamber.
▪ Yet the Government expected unionists to sit in the same council chamber with them.
▪ A colleague stumbled on the couple romping in a first-floor office just yards from the council chamber.
▪ Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen presided over the midnight ceremony in the council chambers, which were decorated with red and pink roses.
city
▪ The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
▪ The city council met, discussed the issue, and eventually voted to go ahead.
▪ If you look at Oxford City, we have many Labour councillors on the Labour city council.
▪ Because the city council has this information, it no longer votes on line items: it votes on service levels.
▪ The city council, famous in the 1980s for its bitter internal disputes, could not be more pliant.
▪ The city council ranks them and votes to eliminate the most expendable.
▪ Birmingham city council says the tour will help it find new ways of dealing with racism.
▪ The recall was the first and only nonpartisan city council election in Tucson history.
county
▪ The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
▪ All 3 political groups on the county council, supported by hundreds of parents, agreed an education budget above Government limits.
▪ If that fails it will be the first village school to be closed by the county council in the last five years.
▪ The suggestion was made at a joint meeting of all sides organised by North Yorkshire county council.
▪ The county council recently agreed that firms and organisations can sponsor displays as advertisements.
▪ A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council.
▪ It is not the task of the county councils to assess the cost benefit of the scheme in detail.
▪ But the county council also questions devoting resources to roads which do not have a high number of accidents.
district
▪ These agencies include district council recreation departments, local sports councils, voluntary organisations and clubs.
▪ District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
▪ Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.
▪ But that could all change with proposals to merge the council with the six smaller district councils within the county.
▪ This is because Mrs. Gilmour will be taking the petition along to the district council offices the following day.
▪ East Northants district council wrote asking me to make that specific point.
▪ Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.
▪ That is also the view of the Dorney and Taplow parish councils and the South Buckinghamshire district council.
election
▪ Elections for the new assembly were scheduled for June 1973, but before that date there were local council elections.
▪ The recall was the first and only nonpartisan city council election in Tucson history.
▪ Next April's council elections could prove a nasty shock.
▪ The Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit was established weeks before the 1986 council elections, and it featured prominently in the campaign.
▪ The local council elections in May appeared to be a watershed in the party's and, therefore Mrs Thatcher's fortunes.
▪ Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
▪ Later in the year the committee sponsored four candidates in council elections.
▪ The Conservatives' best hope for the county council elections, held on the same day, was to contain losses.
estate
▪ Here were the factories, the council estates and - just a few yards beyond the Redburns' back garden - the railway.
▪ In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
▪ Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
▪ The rows of white tents are numbered like a council estate.
▪ Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town, marring the views.
▪ I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river.
▪ The larger of the two branches met in a community centre near a council estate.
house
▪ Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday.
▪ Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses.
▪ I was living with my mam in a council house.
▪ I was under the impression that people who rented council houses would have to pay the new council tax in addition to their rents.
▪ Government rules prevent the use of that money to build council houses but Coun Munsey wants Mr Major to overturn those policies.
▪ I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house.
▪ I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
▪ We will revolutionise the management of council houses and flats.
housing
▪ It is a way, for example, of liberating people from council housing waiting lists.
▪ Duncan and Goodwin examine the subsidizing of council housing, via contributions made from the rates, in London in 1984/85.
▪ Moreover, the resulting decline in council housing has begun to lead to the rise of the ghetto.
▪ A first step for this current administration would be to discard its ideologically-inspired opposition to council housing building.
▪ There in a tiny traditional house flanked by council housing lives Mrs MacKenzie.
▪ Once a land of dour council housing, thousands now own their own houses.
▪ About three quarters of both groups lived in owner occupied or council housing.
▪ The provision of council housing has had an equalising effect both as regards reducing overcrowding and improving housing amenities among working-class people.
leader
▪ And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough, Doncaster.
▪ However, council leader Iain Coleman said yesterday that the council would oppose ground-sharing.
▪ In your report the council leader states that they would be increasing parking for the disabled in Abbot's Yard.
▪ But in his last job, Mr Redwood was just beginning to come to terms with Labour council leaders.
▪ In Brent, council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel.
▪ But council leaders nationally have complained that a decade of education cuts make this the bleakest year yet.
meeting
▪ The claim, drawn up by the national executive, will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October.
▪ An attendance policy for council meetings.
▪ Councillor Sam James took along a window frame to the March parish council meeting.
▪ The public have a statutory right to be present during council meetings and committee meetings.
▪ In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor.
▪ It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders.
▪ At a full council meeting in Darlington members heard the appeal is going well.
▪ In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports.
member
▪ No other permanent security council member is likely to want to get involved.
▪ Legislators, city council members, and school board members are often lawyers or small-business people.
▪ The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William, lord Hastings.
▪ Some current city council members are also concerned that Connie Chambers residents could get shafted if their complex is leveled.
▪ First, there should be a clearer division between council member and officer.
▪ The mayor is only the first of 15 council members, his one vote no stronger than that of the other 14.
▪ Nine council members serve part time in Huntington Beach, sharing a clerical staff of three.
▪ He said he got a positive reaction from council members to his remarks about Western aid but declined to elaborate.
officer
▪ Bioplan's scheme for traffic control had been accepted by Durham county council and Darlington council officers.
▪ Darlington council officers say £3,500 damage has been caused to works in the Myles Meehan Gallery.
▪ It's prompted council officers in Oxfordshire to put their contingency plans to the test.
▪ But council officers are again going to ask for improvements.
▪ The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
▪ Voice over Meanwhile council officers in Swindon say they can't cope with any more terrapins.
▪ But the finding has worried council officers who now want urgent talks with Harwell.
parish
▪ The £11,000 cost will be met through £4,000 from the parish council, grants and fundraising by the project committee.
▪ Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.
▪ Council meeting: The parish council met yesterday.
▪ The Parish council would, therefore, strongly urge your committee to refuse this application.
▪ There was nothing that the parish council could do, as at the time much of the area was within Old Alresford.
▪ There is also a third tier of parish councils, with minimal powers.
▪ A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
▪ At the third tier, parish councils were created in 1894 and charged with administering poor relief.
research
▪ How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?
▪ Based in the Cabinet Office he will have responsibility, amongst other things, for the research councils.
▪ The practicalities are being considered by the research councils in the Department of Education in Northern Ireland.
▪ Then they will ask the research council for the £30 million they will need for the project.
▪ Phillips thinks the research councils could lose out on the transfer.
▪ Phillips's letter assesses how cuts might affect the research councils.
▪ Between 1979-80 and 1990-91, the total of new studentships awarded by research councils rose by almost 28 percent.
▪ The University Grants Committee and the research councils worked together on the selection job.
security
▪ We're prepared to cooperate fully with any security council inquiry.
▪ No other permanent security council member is likely to want to get involved.
▪ The national security council heard calls for resources to be redirected from the elite nuclear forces to beef up conventional arms spending.
▪ The United Nations security council has set up a commission of inquiry.
tax
▪ He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-home owners.
▪ On the other hand, the council tax is also a bit-of-a-poll-tax.
▪ District council tax rates, which have yet to be set, must be added to these figures.
▪ Not bad, not bad I've been sorting out my council tax George.
▪ We can test the fairness of the council tax by looking at the bill that the Secretary of State himself will face.
▪ That internal contradiction means that the council tax will not survive.
▪ First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
▪ The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be.
tenant
▪ But some of Swindon's council tenants can't understand the local authorities position.
▪ She was a former council tenant who had already bought her council house.
▪ For council tenants, London rents have more than trebled between 1979 and 1989.
▪ This office will deal with all matters regarding council tenants services such as repairs, transfers, and rent queries.
▪ The number of former council tenants who have bought their homes has risen to 1.4 million.
▪ Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants.
▪ A campaign to encourage council tenants and people on the waiting list to buy the low-cost homes was launched last October.
town
▪ The townsmen developed no organizational bases comparable to those of Western cities, no craft guilds or town councils.
▪ But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.
▪ The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.
▪ Going to a town council meeting was decidedly not what he wanted to do with his evening.
▪ Instead the town council has decided that a civic medallion should be worn instead.
▪ The post office uses some of the lodge space, and the town council meets there, too.
▪ Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
▪ For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858-9 was chief magistrate.
worker
▪ They told her they were council workers who'd come to fix her doors.
▪ Volunteers have been forced to leave the movement's centrally situated shop in Skinnergate while renovations are carried out by council workers.
▪ Another sure sign, is that council worker Derek Gamage is out with them.
▪ People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance.
▪ Time allowed 05:41 Read in studio A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable.
▪ We would also have to discuss the availability of regional council workers to man the helplines.
■ VERB
elect
▪ They have developed a reasonably efficient administration, with an elected parliament and municipal councils.
▪ But both say the loan was paid off by December 1993, almost a year before Gentry was elected to the council.
▪ He is a former Whitby town councillor and was elected to Cleveland county council in 1985.
▪ While the newly elected council members eventually supported reducing the amount of the increase, the hike was still significant.
▪ No Latino has been elected to the council there.
▪ In city government, public policy is supposed to be enacted by an elected mayor and council.
▪ She was elected to borough council in 1987.
▪ He lost that election but was elected to the council four years later.
set
▪ His officials have concluded that the consultants under-estimated the cost of setting up large councils and over-estimated the cost of smaller ones.
▪ Three have already set up councils and another dozen are expected to do so by December.
▪ What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council.
▪ The rate poundage is set by local councils and for Oxford in 1989-90 it is 291.1p in the pound.
▪ However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government's use of statistics.
▪ A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils.
▪ Temporary agreements were signed setting up councils of heads of state and of heads of government.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Privy Council
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a council meeting
▪ A complaints system is being set up to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers.
▪ Feltz is running for city council in the fall elections.
▪ She's been elected onto the city council.
▪ Stuart is on the Regional Arts Council.
▪ The club got a grant from the Sports Council to help pay for new changing rooms.
▪ The plan for the new housing development is now being considered by Essex County Council.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ I kept on at the council, but it wasn't easy to get a council flat in those days.
▪ In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
▪ Just last week pensioner Phillip Frampton died after a fire at his council flat in Swindon.
▪ One incumbent was returned to the council.
▪ The council say that shutters are not the answer.
▪ The balance between additions and cuts will depend on the financial climate and the political complexion of the council.
▪ The rankings guide Britain's four higher education funding councils in allocating resources.