Example sentences of "[pron] mr patten " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision is part of a much wider shift in government thinking , in which Mr Patten has clearly been given Cabinet permission to distance his own policy from that of predecessors , such as Michael Heseltine , and , to a lesser extent , Mr Ridley , now Trade and Industry Secretary , who believed that economic success depended on getting the planner off the backs of business and citizen alike . |
| 2 | The Foxley Wood project from Consortium Developments which Mr Patten 's predecessor said he was ‘ minded ’ to allow was for 4,800 new houses in a large shallow quarry and conifer plantation . |
| 3 | There were before the election Conservatives who wanted a Tory defeat in the hope of a subsequent reconstruction under a new , more Thatcherite leader — who would restore the purity which Mr Patten was being allowed to destroy . |
| 4 | Schools which Mr Patten 's Department for Education label as bad will be taken over by ‘ hit squads ’ . |
| 5 | The article is the sharpest challenge by a Cabinet minister to church leaders , whom Mr Patten accuses of refusing to suggest that anyone except governments and institutions can actually be bad . |
| 6 | On the evidence before him Mr Patten had decided not to take the listed building enforcement action needed . |
| 7 | What Mr Patten does n't seem to realise is that most seven to 11-year-old children — and I do n't mean his own privileged daughter Mary Claire — need to be eased and teased into acquiring a reading habit . |
| 8 | What Mr Patten objects to is the way that his supporters are supposed to have promoted him as ’ the local candidate ’ … |
| 9 | Disabusing them of these notions is what Mr Patten is about . |