Example sentences of "of the ministry of [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Lawyers representing the nuns from the Our Lady of the Passion Monastery , Daventry , Northamptonshire , were yesterday granted a judicial review of the Ministry of Agriculture order to slaughter the chickens .
2 The fundamental issue behind the arguments that will be heard is that the nuns are not permitted to see the results of the Ministry of Agriculture tests confirming the presence of infection .
3 Within an hour of arrival they were closeted with the permanent secretary , the most senior civil servant , of the Ministry of Agriculture mapping out the ground for a loan from the World Bank to Tanzania which would put $25 million into livestock production , turning ranching and the export of beef into a major national industry .
4 In Juba , southern Sudan , the agricultural rehabilitation project jointly financed by the British government and the World Bank in 1978 had an annual budget in excess of that of the Ministry of Agriculture of the regional government .
5 Deaths : William Pedley : 80 , formerly Regional Controller of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries , put agricultural workers in his debt through his research into their working conditions , carried out under the supervision of Dr C.S.Orwin and published under the title of Labour on the Land ( 1942 ) .
6 The latter are described in all current cost-benefit reports of the Ministry of Agriculture as ‘ laggards ’ .
7 In 1933 , following a typical dispute over this issue , Alban Dobson of the Ministry of Agriculture sent a letter to the clerk of the Medway Catchment Board in Maidstone , dictating where the critical cut-off point should lie .
8 Seven of these cows and one of the bulls , along with two bull calves , were taken into the care of the Ministry of Agriculture 's senior livestock officer for Scotland in 1958 and a nucleus herd was gradually built up and monitored , with the practical support of the Rare Breeds Survival Trust in due course .
9 With particular reference to agricultural odours advances have been made in odour abatement since the publication of the Working Party Report and for the best current practice on odour control reference should be made to reports by the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
10 Dr J. C. Sherlock of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food addressed a joint meeting of the Chilterns and Middlesex Section and the Students Chemical Society of the Polytechnic of North London on the advantages and limitations of Irradiation of food .
11 Some countries require a health certificate signed by a Veterinary Inspector of the Ministry of Agriculture while others will accept a statement signed , for example , by a veterinary surgeon or the head of the animal facility .
12 It is permissible to remove mice born in quarantine 3 weeks after weaning with the permission of the Ministry of Agriculture .
13 Despite the prohibitions , even public employees are taking strike action , including members of the Ministry of Agriculture , Public Works and the Social Security Institute and have received wide support from other sectors .
14 Unfortunately , many of the ideas on which they are working simply disappear into the black hole of the Ministry of Agriculture . ’
15 The latter clause , however , had had the approval of negotiating bodies representing both potato merchants and farmers ; no blame for the infection of the seed potatoes was attributable to either side ; and , further , the buyers , if they had so wished , could have bought at a small extra cost , seed potatoes certified by inspectors of the Ministry of Agriculture .
16 That is the role of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food .
17 The threat of a Western military attack against Iraq diminished after the government granted permission to a team of " neutral " UN weapons inspectors , drawn mainly from European countries , to conduct a search of the Ministry of Agriculture on July 28 and 29 .
18 Government posts are available in the disease control and investigation service of the Animal Health Division of the Ministry of Agriculture .
19 This is further underlined by several initiatives of the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) .
20 Evidence collected by the Council for the Protection of Rural England ( CPRE ) shows that officials of the Ministry of Agriculture are now levying charges on farmers for advice on conservation .
21 The irony is even though the travellers have now been evicted from this field in Enstone … it will stay unused … the landowers are being paid to keep it that way as part of the Ministry of Agriculture 's Set Aside policy
22 NO SANE person would have devised the Beef Special Premium Scheme , admits its co-ordinator , Richard Cowan , head of the Ministry of Agriculture 's beef policy division in Whitehall .
23 The officials of the Ministry of Development were keen that the new building should be on the tennis courts because a new road was planned to run through Bachelor 's Walk parallel with the present buildings .
24 In the GDR , officers of ‘ Administration 2000 ’ of the State Security Service ( SSD ) function as an arm of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) in the armed forces .
25 In the GDR , the Wachsregimente of the Ministry of State Security ( MfS ) and the Bereitschaftspolizei of the Ministry of the Interior have more than sufficed for this purpose , enabling the NVA to keep its hands clean and its morale high .
26 The monument is fortuitously under the windows of the Ministry of Defence and under the gaze of Lord Trenchard whose statue was placed in Whitehall Gardens in 1956 .
27 When prototypes have satisfied the OR Staff , production is carried out by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence , using commercial contracts of a number of different types such as ‘ fixed price ’ , ‘ single tender ’ , and the much criticised ‘ cost-plus ’ , which is used when the technical risks are too high , the contractors able to tender too few , or the time too short for normal competitive tendering .
28 Apart from remorseless administrative efforts by the successive Permanent Under-Secretaries of the Ministry of Defence to reduce overheads so that more resources could be freed for re-equipment programmes , two well-trodden paths off the ‘ Military Road to Absurdity ’ have been thoroughly explored : partnership with the US , Canada , Australia and New Zealand ( the ABCA countries ) ; and collaboration with our Western European allies .
29 A neo-Jacobean pile proudly raised on a Suffolk dune by Edwardian telephone magnate Sir Cuthbert Quilter , the house is now for sale by order of the Ministry of Defence .
30 Three accountants were knighted in the list : Paul Nicholson FCA , chairman and managing director of Vaux Breweries ; John Raymond Johnstone CA , chairman of the Scottish Forestry Commission ; and CIMA 's John Thomas , head of the Defence Export Services Organisation of the Ministry of Defence .
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