Example sentences of "[adj] friend [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This summer , I concluded that the latter was better than the former and I can give my hon. Friend no assurance that I would not reach the same conclusion again . |
| 2 | As my hon. Friend no doubt knows , under the Road Traffic Act 1991 , local authorities will be able to seek power to recruit and deploy their own parking attendants in designated areas , and any fines levied go to local authorities to help defray the costs of that service . |
| 3 | Although we shall do our utmost to resist it , I can not give my hon. Friend a guarantee that we will be successful in that endeavour . |
| 4 | However , I am delighted that the Government are giving my hon. Friend a money resolution — that is all very proper — but I beg the House not to be too concerned about what the figure is . |
| 5 | Let me give my hon. Friend a quote : ’ If our costs rise more rapidly than others ' costs , particularly German costs , then British producers lose markets at home and abroad . ’ |
| 6 | It has recently published its prospectus for 1992-93 , and I will send my hon. Friend a copy . |
| 7 | I have always shared with my hon. Friend a belief in the importance of manufacturing industry , particularly the motor car industry . |
| 8 | The reforms introduced by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will mean two things : first , convicted sex offenders will , rightly , spend much longer in prison ; and , secondly , they will be supervised when they are released . |
| 9 | With the extension of appeal rights to all asylum seekers , it is not unreasonable to propose — as the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary propose — that this anomalous double provision should end and that increased resources for advice should be concentrated on UKIAS , especially as the service has a better record of winning cases than solicitors and is more cost effective . |
| 10 | But it is also the case that suggestions for amalgamation of rural — or , indeed , urban — benches come not from my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary but from the magistrates courts committees in the areas concerned . |
| 11 | The Bill introduced by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will not deter genuine asylum seekers . |
| 12 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I shall see British car manufacturers again in the near future to urge them speedily to incorporate immobilisation devices into cars . |
| 13 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary announced on 28 November that he had not approved the police authority 's application for 79 additional police posts in 1992-93 . |
| 14 | In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's last point , I can say that I have complete confidence in my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | There are thousands of police officers in the 17 drugs wings who are accountable to the police authorities , and my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I come to this place to answer questions about them . |
| 16 | That suggests to me that he supports the policy of sector policing that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has put his weight behind . |
| 17 | However , he well realises that these matters of detail are for response by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 18 | Is my hon. Friend aware that , during the recent debate on the Asylum Bill , our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary pointed out that about 30,000 people are registered as asylum seekers , without their families , and that they are allowed six months ' benefit immediately upon registering as asylum seekers ? |
| 19 | Admissions to the United Kingdom are matters for our right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 20 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary commented on people who arrive here having torn up or got rid of their documents on the aeroplane . |
| 21 | As my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary said in his opening speech , asylum is a complex subject . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has already dealt with that issue . |
| 23 | For example , my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary mentioned a Ugandan who came here from Italy , where he had spent four years . |
| 24 | The UNHCR director for international protection , quoted by my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary , said in May this year that in western Europe unfounded cases clog the system . |
| 25 | I will take up the latter point both in my Department and with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary . |
| 26 | I congratulate my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary on the Bill , which provides for tougher action against prisoners who wish to carry out their war against society after conviction and sentence from within — or worse , outside — the prison to which they have been sentenced . |
| 27 | That is not the fault of the prison governor ; it is the fault of the prison service , for which my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and his predecessors have the unavoidable responsibility . |
| 28 | Indeed , the question is when my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary will recognise it . |
| 29 | I am therefore pleased that my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary has recognised the importance of such management failures and that he has appointed Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo to improve management in the prison service . |
| 30 | My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary telescoped his remarks . |