Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] the foreign [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That may be challenged by the nation states in the European Court , but , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary conceded this afternoon , that court has usually reflected integrationist tendencies . |
| 2 | I am happy to tell the hon. Gentleman that I have had a number of meetings with President Vassiliou during the year and that I have already met Turkish Ministers , as has my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary . |
| 3 | It has been suggested in several media reports today that if my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary were free to pursue an independent foreign policy , he would not now consider recognising Slovenia and Croatia . |
| 4 | Moreover , both directly and through the medium of the European Community , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made it plain to the Government of Israel that we deplore the closure decision and that we believe that the universities , colleges and schools should remain open . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary had extensive and frank discussions with President Moi and senior Ministers during his visit to Nairobi on 11 and 12 September . |
| 6 | That is precisely why my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary visited each of the nuclear republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 7 | It would be far better , as my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said , to conclude association agreements with those countries and to help them in every way to catch up and to adopt the principles of a single free market rather than trying to integrate them within new political structures . |
| 8 | The Gracious Speech is that annual event when our Queen and her Government set out for this Parliament those national and international policies that are in the best interests of the United Kingdom , and only the United Kingdom , whether they relate to domestic legislation , to our defence commitments or to those foreign policy objectives which , to quote my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary , protect and promote the British interest . |
| 9 | It is inevitable that much of the debate has been on the European Community and on what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said in his opening speech . |
| 10 | Successive Foreign Secretaries , the ambassadorial input , the input of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and especially the input of those who beaver away at the top of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in dim Victorian rooms have made a tremendous contribution to the unique catalytic role which my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary mentioned . |
| 11 | I understood what my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary said about economic migration and refugees under the 1951 convention . |
| 12 | Will my right hon. Friend have a word with our right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary about utilising the British information services to maximum effect , especially in north America , in the hope of cutting off the supply of money , sympathy and support for the sort of depraved attack that occurred on Saturday , and to show IRA sympathisers in America precisely what is happening ? |
| 13 | I am always content to discuss these matters with my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary . |
| 14 | My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary is sitting beside me and has heard my hon. Friend 's question . |
| 15 | My right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary recently came out of his negotiations with , among others , our French partners , and , in his diplomatic way , observed that , like Waterloo , it had been hard pounding . |
| 16 | I hope that my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary will seize the opportunity provided by his next meeting with his Community colleagues — which I believe will take place very shortly — to reappraise the position , and to see whether the Governments of the Community could now decide to recognise Croatia and to tell the Yugoslavian federal Government that they can no longer be recognised as the legitimate Government of former federal territory . |
| 17 | Everyone says — my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary has made the point several times — that Yugoslavia as we knew it is no more . |
| 18 | When he answered questions in the House on 20November , my right hon. Friend the Foreign Secretary showed an understandable reluctance to move towards recognition of Croatia . |
| 19 | It 's high time the Foreign Secretary realised there 's a war on . ’ |
| 20 | After three weeks of legal wrangling the Foreign Office finally asked the Americans for help . |
| 21 | Following the Sowan affair the Foreign Office expelled the five-man team of Mossad agents that Britain had permitted to work unofficially in London . |
| 22 | Yet even at the height of this bitter struggle the foreign ministry made a considerable effort to foster Catholic missions in the Near East as vehicles of French influence there . |