Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] state have [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Secretary of State had already said future applications to build power stations would be considered on their own merit and not because there was spare capacity . |
| 2 | If the Secretary of State had regularly taken the governors ' advice about appointments , patronage might have been used to control the assemblies — some governors , notably in Massachusetts , were able to get their own way in their assemblies much more often in wartime and , while this was partly due to patriotism and partly due to fear of the French , it does appear that war contracts could build support in what had not always been promising soil for the governors . |
| 3 | The Secretary of State had quite a struggle last summer in his discussions with the Treasury on the revised community training programme . |
| 4 | Now , however , the Coal Board took the view that as the Secretary of State had never formally ruled on the consent to demolish following the inquiry , they were not obliged to honour their undertaking . |
| 5 | The Secretary of State has already proposed a set of tests to be used along with the national core curriculum . |
| 6 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has already made it plain that , unlike some other Bills , we hope that for this one not only will most of the regulations be in place before Royal Assent , but that draft regulations will be composed parallel to the legislation . |
| 7 | He complains that the Secretary of State has not taken his petition properly into account . |
| 8 | It is clear that the Secretary of State has not a single idea on the issue . |
| 9 | But the Secretary of State has clearly to consider other aspects of the early release of a prisoner serving a sentence of imprisonment . |
| 10 | I think whilst the Secretary of State has clearly said what he 's said in that decision letter . |
| 11 | The Secretary of State has also granted a general dispensation to members who are tenants of council houses . |
| 12 | On the issue that the Secretary of State has just discussed with the defence spokesman of the Ulster Unionist party , the hon. Member for Fermanagh and South Tyrone ( Mr. Maginnis ) , while holding that it should be a weapon in the armoury of any civilised Government to take out of circulation those who are seeking to destroy , murder and maim , will he give a full assurance to the House that he will undertake that act , if he has to do so , as a British Minister responsible to this House , and not in cliques with the Dublin Government who say that they would need to approve such a move ? |
| 13 | The Secretary of State has just referred to the number of social workers . |
| 14 | In this case , the Secretary of State has today issued a public statement disputing various parts of the report in The Independent and he has sought to quote from other aspects of the internal review which he has said is so far confidential . |
| 15 | A spokesman said : ‘ As the Secretary of State has repeatedly said , he will take account of any recommendations of the Royal Commission [ in England and Wales ] which are deemed appropriate for Scotland . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State has consistently misrepresented the position of my hon. Friend the Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) and all the statements that the Labour party has made about the matter . |
| 17 | As the Secretary of State has now ordered 13 type 23 frigates and has only two AOR vessels , does he not need to order another AOR vessel ? |
| 18 | In addition , the Secretary of State has recently made an announcement on the decision to bring the high-speed link in from the east via Stratford rather than from the south . |
| 19 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has always shown himself to be a listening Minister . |
| 20 | The Secretary of State has indeed pulled those pillars down . |
| 21 | The secretary of state has very wide powers of making regulations ‘ in the interests of amenity or public safety ’ . |
| 22 | The alternative route proposed by Ove Arup , which the Secretary of State has sensibly accepted , was acknowledged in all its aspects to be environmentally acceptable . |
| 23 | An empowering statute will often frame the jurisdictional requirement in the following terms : if the Secretary of State has reasonable cause to believe , for example , a person to be of hostile origin , he may imprison him . |
| 24 | To that end , as my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State has already said , we have contributed about £350 million since October 1989 . |
| 25 | We shall see what audience his right hon. Friend the Minister of State has when it is her turn to speak . |
| 26 | The Secretary of State has no authority to alter the contents of the report , and it is interesting that no Secretary of State has ever rejected one . |
| 27 | ( At the same time it must be admitted that no Secretary of State has ever said that he accepts one either , though his order to publish a report might be taken as such an admission . ) |