Example sentences of "[adj] secretary of [noun] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the old Heathites , save for Peter Walker ( a highly individualist and most effective leftish Secretary of State for Wales ) were on the back-benches . |
| 2 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 3 | Unfairly , the Scottish domestic ratepayer was badly hit and , in the area near to the constituency of the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. Member for Ayr ( Mr. Younger ) , the majority were Conservative voters . |
| 4 | In November 1985 the then Secretary of State for Wales , Nicholas Edwards , now Lord Crickhowell , commissioned studies into the feasibility , costs and benefits of a barrage between Penarth dock and Cardiff docks . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal in London ruled on April 27 , 1990 , that John McCann , Martina Shanahan and Finbar Cullen , known as the " Winchester Three " , should be immediately released from the prison sentence of 25 years imposed upon each of them at Winchester Crown Court in October 1988 , following their convictions on charges of conspiring to murder Tom King , the then Secretary of State for Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Perhaps the current Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food , and the current Secretary of State for Wales — both of whom were responsible for the implementation of that legislation — will do the same . |
| 7 | Richard Solomon , Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs , represented the USA , and vice Foreign Minister Le Mai led the Vietnamese side . |
| 8 | Richard Solomon , US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs , visited Laos on March 5-6 for talks with , among others , Gen. Khamtay . |
| 9 | Mar was a 40-year-old former Secretary of State for Scotland who , dropped from office by George I , had turned Jacobite , making his house in London a centre of the anti-Hanoverian conspiracy before , in August 1715 , sailing from London on a collier to Newcastle and thence to Elie in Fife . |
| 10 | As constitutional head of the new state , Arden-Clarke briefly became Governor-General until Lord Listowel ( former Secretary of State for India and Burma ) arrived . |
| 11 | When will the dogmatic Secretary of State for Scotland realise that the people of Scotland see NHS trusts as the thin edge of the wedge for privatisation of the health service , and that they do not want them ? |
| 12 | Lord Edward Henry Stanley , the eldest son of Lord Derby the Prime Minister , had been President of the Board of Control and in September 1858 was appointed by his father to be the new Secretary of State for India . |
| 13 | In August 1917 the new Secretary of State for India , Edwin Montagu , announced that the policy of H.M. |
| 14 | Three weeks later his long ordeal came to an end when the new Secretary of State for Scotland , Bruce Millan , announced to the House of Commons that he had decided to exercise the Royal Prerogative of Mercy , i.e. recommend to the Queen the granting of a free Pardon . |
| 15 | Eventually , in July 1979 , a new secretary of state for Northern Ireland pronounced on the Bennett Report on behalf of her government . |
| 16 | It was originally a tower house called Lethington , property of the Maitland family who produced many influential royal advisers including Mary 's ‘ Secretary Lethington ’ and her son 's Chancellor ; and the Earl of Lauderdale who became dictatorial Secretary of State for Scotland under Charles II . |