Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To this end , it is calling a World Summit for Children to be held at the UN in New York next September , bringing together heads of state for the first time to discuss an important social issue . |
| 2 | Lord Sanderson of Bowden , hitherto Minister of State at the Scottish Office , took over as party chair in Scotland on a full-time basis on Sept. 27 . |
| 3 | Desmond Fostin , Minister of Communications , Works and Transport , resigned and was replaced by Gregory Avril , hitherto Minister of State in the Ministry of Agriculture , on Feb. 9 , 1990 , after allegations of corruption within the Ministry . |
| 4 | These have mounted because in February Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , stopped any new deals and Hammersmith 's portfolio was largely weighted to the expectation that interest rates would be low , preventing the council from improving its position in the market . |
| 5 | For example , Mrs Thatcher convened a meeting of ministers to consider the now legendary minute entitled ‘ It Took a Riot ’ prepared for her by Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , based on his experiences in Merseyside following the inner-city riots of July 1981 . |
| 6 | A considerable step forward came , in August 1980 , when Michael Heseltine , then Secretary of State for the Environment , announced that things would be done differently , at least in the parks and certain other designated areas . |
| 7 | Typically , in one of the first debates about inner cities of the third Thatcher term , Nicholas Ridley , then Secretary of State for the Environment , justified his aggressively business led strategy , introducing more Urban Development Corporations : |
| 8 | Despite this obstacle , Sturt was determined to press ahead with the expedition , and on 19 May he appealed to Gould to exert any pressure he could on Lord Derby to encourage his son , Lord Stanley — who was then Secretary of State for the Colonies — to back the proposal . |
| 9 | Under the Social Security Pensions Act there was an attempt to change what Barbara Castle , then Secretary of State to the Department of Health and Social Security , described as a situation in which women were ‘ Second class citizens entitled to third class benefits ’ ( House of Commons Debates , 1974 ) . |
| 10 | Mr Norman Tebbit , then secretary of state at the Department of Trade and Industry ( DTI ) , asked few questions and waved through the Al Fayed bid in ten days flat . |
| 11 | In Hansard ( 17 December 1991 , vol 201 , No 25 , col 119 ) Gillian Shephard ( then Minister of State at the Treasury ) stated that Customs ' long-standing policy is that ‘ rent-free periods are outside the scope of VAT unless services are performed by the tenant for the landlord ’ . |
| 12 | As early as 4 April 1990 there was the following exchange between him and Francis Maude , then Minister of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office : |
| 13 | Kenneth Clarke will become Education Secretary and William Waldegrade , currently Minister of State at the Foreign Office , will get the job of Health Secretary . |
| 14 | Kenneth Clarke is to become Education Secretary , and William Waldegrade , currently Minister of State at the Foreign Office , will get the job of Health Secretary . |