Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] of state in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The importance of this image in the history of western political thought has long been recognized ; indeed it has been hailed as the rebirth of the concept of state in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 3 | It is the payment of such reasonable amount as the council itself determines , subject to a ceiling in the form of an amount prescribed by the Secretary of State in the Regulations . |
| 4 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 5 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 6 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 7 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ That ’ to the end of the Question , and to add instead thereof : this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill because of the inadequacy of the groundwater protection provisions in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule , because the public consultation on the Hydrotechnica report is not yet concluded , because that consultation process has allowed no mechanism for public discussion of the report , and because the Bill makes no provision for an independent final arbiter on matters concerning the quality of the water environment in the inland bay . |
| 8 | The groundwater protection provisions are inadequate in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend made certain representations about the proposal to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in the course of a discussion last month . |
| 10 | To control the damage , the Minister of State in the President 's Office , John Tembo , met the seven bishops . |
| 11 | Under the last Labour government , the minister of state in the Department of Health and Social Security who took particular responsibility for social security , Mr Stanley Orme , was a Cabinet minister . |
| 12 | According to a minister of state in the Foreign Affairs Ministry at the end of January 110 companies were being investigated for alleged illegal deliveries to Iraq , of which 11 were being prosecuted , although none involved exports to Iraq after the August 1990 embargo came into force . |