Example sentences of "government minister " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader of the MPs ' delegation , Sir Rhodes Boyson , the former local government minister , said afterwards that they had asked for an extra £650m to offset the sums which some local councils will have to raise in poll tax to the pay their contribution to the nation-wide poll tax safety net . |
| 2 | More than half the extra money — announced at the Conservative Party conference yesterday by David Hunt , the local government minister — will be spent in 1991/2 , the last full financial year before the election . |
| 3 | An Ideal Husband ( 1947 ) , a film version of Oscar Wilde 's play , is a lavish but stagey production set in 1895 , when ‘ Britain ruled the world and held the purse ’ , showing the dilemma facing a government minister whose murky past catches up with him . |
| 4 | The arrests provoked a protest march led by a member of the provincial assembly and former government minister , Mr Abdul Karim Barbak , of the opposition Awami National Party . |
| 5 | Mr Le Pen also made an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish government minister , Mr Lionel Stoleru . |
| 6 | In the space of only two weeks , the Slovak lawyer has moved from dissident to defendant to government minister . |
| 7 | Mr David Hunt , the Local Government Minister , tried this week to blunt some of the anger in the business world by announcing a small concession in arrangements to ease the rate 's introduction . |
| 8 | As the government minister calls their names , pride and shyness compete for mastery of their faces . |
| 9 | Lady Onslow befriended Littlejohn , who lost little time in asking her to arrange a meeting between a Government minister and his brother Kenneth , who , he said , had some important intelligence about the IRA to pass on . |
| 10 | According to the Sunday Times , ‘ A Government Minister has implied that their [ the people of the area ] problems are imaginary or psychosomatic and a senior Whitehall official has suggested that the whole thing was a ‘ hoax ’ , devised to thwart the Government 's privatisation plans . ’ |
| 11 | Government minister Robert Freeman now had a meeting with Roberts and promised a new inquiry . |
| 12 | Tom King , then Local Government Minister , announced that no further geological investigations would be carried out in any of the selected areas . |
| 13 | It is within this conceptual framework that a government minister at the Department of the Environment can , with seemingly irrefutable common sense , conceptualise inner cities as the places where ‘ those living there have not been able to participate in the economic miracle of the Thatcher years ’ ( Trippier , 1989 , p7 ) and which require a strong police presence because ‘ the future prosperity of the inner cities depends directly on how safe they are in which to live and work ’ ( ibid , p22 ) . |
| 14 | In France , a government minister is working on plans to make sexual harassment a criminal offence , so how long can it be before Britain begins a similar move ? |
| 15 | Tory junior ministers who can expect promotion include Michael Forsyth , currently number two at the Department of Employment , and Local Government Minister John Redwood . |
| 16 | If a government minister dissents then he 's out , for the sake of the government 's credibility . |
| 17 | Later Geoffrey Pyke , whose snow vehicle is described in Chapter 9 , joined COHQ on the recommendation of a Government minister . |
| 18 | But he was quick to perceive that there was little future in such arguments , at least for a Government Minister . |
| 19 | A senior Government minister replied that people were being given a stake in society by being allowed to buy their council houses . |
| 20 | One Government Minister told the Daily Mirror Mr Lamont had become ‘ a laughing stock ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ He added : ‘ The conduct of a Government Minister which in no way affected the crisis was equally a matter of fact and public interest , ’ . |
| 22 | Mrs Bauwens claimed the story made her out to be a ‘ social leper ’ not fit to be seen with a Government Minister . |
| 23 | HARD times are ahead for councils and vital local services , Local Government Minister John Redwood predicted . |
| 24 | A government minister has said that the police fired in self-defence , but there is no evidence to suggest that the their lives were in jeopardy . |
| 25 | Such novels may not greatly dignify the world they describe , or even get it right ; but their fascination with the inner workings of an administrative system are ultimately reverent , and Snow himself was to end his career in London and not in Cambridge , where he had begun as a scientist : a peer and , briefly , a government minister . |
| 26 | Bute House , No. 6 , has been reconstructed and beautifully furnished by private donations and gifts as the official residence of the principal Government Minister for Scotland . |
| 27 | European political union is a question of the heart versus the head , a government minister told me the other day . |
| 28 | At the head of each is a government minister , normally assisted by one or more junior ministers . |
| 29 | A government minister will reply . |
| 30 | The major significance of the Government 's changes is highlighted by the fact that , whereas SERPS held out the prospect of guaranteeing every pensioner an income above the supplementary pension level , no Government minister had felt able to give a similar guarantee for the Thatcher pension reform . |