Example sentences of "secretary [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have encouraged Secretary Baker to continue to give his personal impact to those negotiations because that is essential , and he is clearly willing to do so . |
| 2 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 3 | For the past five years members of the Durham Concert Secretaries Federation have held fund-raising events on behalf of the Wareham Wood Memorial Fund for cancer relief and the latest cheque was handed over at a special ceremony at Osborne Social Club , Chester-le-Street . |
| 4 | One of his secretaries Colville tells us that Churchill 's attitudes to clergymen had a touch of King Henry II 's attitude to Thomas Becket . |
| 5 | He was equally sinister two years later when the Foreign Secretary Carrington visited him with a strange request for help in promoting the neutralisation of Afghanistan . |
| 6 | After a week of confusion , warnings of constitutional crisis and outrage over the possibility that Parliament was to be bypassed , Foreign Secretary Hurd turned urbanity and understatement into performance art . |
| 7 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , Mr. Speaker shall put the questions necessary to dispose of proceedings on the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Heseltine relating to Local Government Finance not later than Ten o'clock ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 8 | Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business . |
| 9 | In December Secretary Paget set out the position with gloomy — and inaccurate figures . |
| 10 | His secretary Pamela reads it off her memo pad : ‘ The VC 's PA rang to say could they have your nomination for the Industry Year Shadow Scheme . ’ |
| 11 | A fourth round of Indo-Pakistan talks at foreign secretary level took place in New Delhi on April 4-6 , concerned with confidence-building measures . |
| 12 | The fifth round of Indo-Pakistan talks at foreign secretary level took place in Murree near Islamabad on Oct. 30-31 . |
| 13 | Other departments represented at either permanent or deputy permanent secretary level included environment , agriculture , health , transport , trade and industry and the treasury . |
| 14 | The sixth round of talks at defence secretary level aimed at reducing tension on the 72-km Siachen Glacier in the north resumed in New Delhi on Nov. 2-4 [ see pp. 36736 ; 38153 ] . |
| 15 | Our editorial secretary Sue has three goldfish in her two foot bank , one of which is at least twenty years old . |
| 16 | The employment secretary David has today told company bosses in Nottingham that treating their staff properly will save them money and boost their profits . |
| 17 | General Secretary Gorbachev asks God whether Capitalism will ever come to the Soviet Union , and gets the same answer . |
| 18 | I wondered whether they were using my secretary Jean to do the work of other departments . |
| 19 | We then move to motion number eight Mr secretary Redwood to move it . |
| 20 | The key Foreign Affairs , Finance and Chief Cabinet Secretary posts remained unchanged in the reshuffle . |
| 21 | Treasury Secretary Brady informed Congress on May 23 that the total cost of rescuing the country 's stricken thrifts could reach $300,000 million over 10 years . |
| 22 | He 's on hunger strike in protest at the Home Secretary refusal to move him to Cardiff gaol near his home at Treorky in mid-Glamorgan . |
| 23 | Stephen Dorrell , 40 , an unimpressive former junior health minister , takes over the Financial Secretary job left vacant when Francis Maude lost his seat last week . |
| 24 | Trade and Industry Secretary Navarro was the head of an accounting firm , while Agrarian Reform Secretary Garilao had been executive director of the Philippine Business for Social Progress , a business-funded foundation established to undertake community projects . |
| 25 | CGT secretary Séguy announced that he was not concerned with such ‘ vacuous ideas as workers ’ control , reform of society and other inventions ' . |
| 26 | Among them was Charles Williams , who rather surprisingly left his wife and child behind to brave the Blitz in their Hampstead flat while he and his beloved secretary Celia came to take up their ( separate ) residences in Oxford . |
| 27 | In Opposition days , Heath the permanent secretary manqué set about preparing for government with a will . |
| 28 | The government was ordered to pay all legal costs and the Court refused the Environment Secretary leave to appeal to the House of Lords . |
| 29 | In January 1943 Party Secretary Arrese discussed political organization in Berlin with his German counterpart . |
| 30 | By the beginning of the seventeenth century the secretary hand had been almost entirely superseded by the ‘ Italian ’ hand , introduced in Henry VII 's reign by his Latin secretary . |