Example sentences of "secretary of [noun] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Puritano and Korb ( 1981 ) report the directions of the Secretary of Defense to improve the effectiveness of the PPB system . |
| 2 | The reasoned amendment tabled by the hon. Member for Alyn and Deeside ( Mr. Jones ) and other Opposition Members seeks to make the point that the provisions would enable the Secretary of State to weaken the protection , which , I suppose , goes alongside the need for provisions to strengthen the protection . |
| 3 | What reassurance does it give to people who might suffer damage due to a change in groundwater level when the Bill permits the Secretary of State to weaken the groundwater provisions ? |
| 4 | The financial resources proposed by the secretary of state to support the strategy are intended to move over a 5 year period from 0.8% of the total NHS budget to a target of 1.5% . |
| 5 | The Act also empowers the Secretary of State to define the structure and content of each of these subjects in considerable detail , and to specify what pupils of different abilities should study and achieve at various ages . |
| 6 | Lord Clyde , appointed by the Secretary of State to lead the Inquiry , outside Kirkwall Town Hall . |
| 7 | It is not necessary that the prisoner should be further protected by compelling the Secretary of State to give the reasons for his decision . |
| 8 | look , look , may I put it this way , we 're in the directive of being able to point to something which permits the Secretary of State to delegate the function , that what 's it for |
| 9 | A white parent of a child attending a Wakefield school where one-third of the pupils come from Asian families has asked the Secretary of State to declare the school to be in default of its duty by continuing to offer a multi-faith assembly , in the face of claims by the LEA that the arrangements for collective worship had been carefully designed to comply with the law . |
| 10 | If I can just endorse what Stewart was saying the Parish Council talked to me as their consultant for a while and said look it seems that that with the with the actions of the er County Council writing to the Secretary of State to preempt the call-in procedures and the attitude of the District Council that this thing might well get local planning permission . |
| 11 | If a bid falls flat quickly , will it be possible for the Secretary of State to switch the assistance to the other bid which was previously ruled out and to give those involved the chance further to develop their proposals ? |
| 12 | Does the Minister agree that the best prospect of reaching and sustaining adequate inward investment will arise only when right hon. and hon. Members representing the people of Northern Ireland put aside their petty differences and continue talks with the Secretary of State to bring the violence in the Province to an end ? |
| 13 | Senior Orange leaders , DUP representatives and Official Unionists held a series of negotiations with the RUC and the Secretary of State to have the re-routeing order lifted . |
| 14 | To help the courts in sentencing decisions , the Government also proposes that the legislation should place a new duty on the Secretary of State to inform the courts annually of the costs of implementing penalties … |
| 15 | In section 11(1) of the Mental Health ( Scotland ) Act 1984 ( training and occupation of the mentally handicapped ) — ( a ) after the words ’ operation of ’ there shall be inserted ’ ( a ) ’ ; and ( b ) after the word ’ mind ) ’ there shall be inserted the words or ( b ) section 1 of the Further and Higher Education ( Scotland ) Act 1992 ( which imposes a duty on the secretary of State to secure the provision of adequate and efficient further education in Scotland ) . |
| 16 | One young representative , Colin Mason , a computer systems manager from Streatham , who branded environmental controls as ‘ socialism by the back door ’ , was gently advised by the Secretary of State to read the Tory philospher Edmund Burke . |
| 17 | By notice of appeal dated 12 February 1991 Mr. Pierson appealed against that refusal on the grounds , inter alia , that the Divisional Court had erred ( 1 ) in ruling that it was not unlawful for the Secretary of State to increase the tariff recommended by the Lord Chief Justice and the trial judge for the purposes of determining a prisoner 's first parole review date and ( 2 ) in ruling that Mr. Pierson was not entitled to know in advance the factors which the Secretary of State proposed to take into account in fixing the tariff and to make informed representations in the light of that knowledge . |
| 18 | I urge the Secretary of State to accept the validity of the argument set out in the amendment . |