Example sentences of "from the ministry of " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOOD Minister David Maclean has blamed the KGB for poor publicity surrounding the launch of a series of food safety guides from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries & Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 2 | British Aerospace , the lead British contender , may have the backing of the Department of Trade and Industry but it is almost certain to face fierce opposition from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 3 | The British vessel , Endurance , an ice-patrol ship reinforced with helicopters and missiles , was kept in Falklands waters despite pressure from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 4 | In addition there was the tension of waiting for news from the Ministry of Sport and despite all Herr Nordern 's warnings , based on his own profound experience of bureaucracy , he , as well as the rest of the family , found himself waiting with more than usual interest for the postman 's knock . |
| 5 | ‘ Say I 'm from the Ministry of Justice . ’ |
| 6 | The troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is being authorised under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 7 | THE troops ' intervention in the ambulance strike is not being authorised under the Emergency Powers Act , but under a Whitehall arrangement which enables one department to request ‘ military aid to the civil ministries ’ from the Ministry of Defence and pay the bill afterwards . |
| 8 | Short Brothers has won two orders worth £40 million for its Javelin close-air defence weapon system from the Ministry of Defence and an unnamed country . |
| 9 | Short Brothers has won two orders worth £40 million for its Javelin close-air defence weapon system from the Ministry of Defence and an unnamed country . |
| 10 | On the Saturday night after the outbreak of war , the general manager of Glascoed got a telephone call from the Ministry of Defence . |
| 11 | The outcome is that fox hunts will need a licence from the Ministry of Agriculture before they can temporarily block setts to prevent foxes hiding in them during a hunt , or to dig out foxes which succeed in entering a sett . |
| 12 | Clark preferred the old boy network , and settled on an old pal from the Ministry of Information , Robert Fraser . |
| 13 | The work in protecting Britain 's hop crop is part of the research programme of Horticulture Research International , a recently privatised group of scientists which still has support from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural and Food Research Council . |
| 14 | The future provision for liberal adult education was to be shared in ways which broadly represented existing arrangements with most , though not all , financial costs being borne by grant-aid from the Ministry of Education and the LEAs . |
| 15 | We will transfer responsibility for food standards from the Ministry of Agriculture to a new Food and Drugs Commission . |
| 16 | A new Ministry of Arts and Sciences should be created to superintend this new empire , separated from the Ministry of Education and assuming that Ministry 's current responsibilities for the research councils , the Arts Council , and similar bodies . |
| 17 | In 1980–1 , a fairly typical year , the grant from the Ministry of Agriculture for land-drainage schemes , including some urban work , amounted to about £30.5 million , of which £23.7 million was allocated to the water authorities , while the rest went to internal drainage boards and local authorities.2 In that year it is estimated that the water authorities spent around £40 million on capital drainage schemes for agriculture . |
| 18 | Capital schemes , which are partially funded by grants from the Ministry of Agriculture , make substantial drainage improvements ; whereas maintenance schemes , paid for by rating precepts , aim at stopping floods from getting worse , by removing blockages such as fallen trees and shoals . |
| 19 | Woolton was an exponent of laisser faire , Leathers a rather unsuccessful interventionist , Alexander ineffectual all round , and Cherwell what he had always been , a highly intelligent courtier to his chief , though he did succeed in driving through his pet project of hiving off atomic energy from the Ministry of Supply into what became the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority . |
| 20 | He led a team of Whitehall heavy-weights including the formidable Dame Evelyn Sharp from the Ministry of Housing and the Treasury 's ebullient innovator Sir Richard ‘ Otto ’ Clarke . |
| 21 | More of the costs of educational materials have been transferred from the Ministry of Education on to consumers . |
| 22 | No one was more alive to the vital necessity of keeping open lines of communication than the Railway Companies and the LMSR readily accepted a suggestion from the Ministry of Supply to assist in the production of railway bridges and trestles for use of the fighting services . |
| 23 | Students from overseas countries should obtain information on scholarships from the Ministry of Education of their own country or from a representative of the British Council if one is available locally . |
| 24 | And whether he changes his system , ploughs his moorland , reseeds his pasture , increases his stocking rate , drains his bog and fertilises his meadow is strongly influenced by the advice and grant-aid he receives from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food ( MAFF ) . |
| 25 | Last week , civil servants from the Ministry of Defence ( MoD ) met scientists of the National Radiological Protection Board ( NRPB ) and the Medical Research Council to discuss who should do the work . |
| 26 | THE DUTCH government has transferred part of its science-policy department from the ministry of education and science to the ministry of economic affairs . |
| 27 | THE CAMPAIGN against the use of plastic bullets by the police , which was launched this week by the British Society for Social Responsibility in Science and the National Council for Civil Liberties , comes just in time to fight a new ‘ technological fix ’ on offer from the Ministry of Defence — a rapid-fire gun designed for riot control . |
| 28 | The new guidelines are bound to cause controversy because they effectively transfer the cost of agricultural support from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food to the NCC and the national parks ' authorities , whose budgets are already stretched to breaking point . |
| 29 | Last autumn , without any consultation with the executive director , Professor Nicholas Negroponte , or Papert , control of the centre passed from the Ministry of Research to the Ministry of Communications . |
| 30 | A new report from the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food estimates that the average intake of dioxins in the gut in the UK is less than one quarter of the World Health Organisation 's ( WHO ) Tolerable Daily Intake ( TDI ) . |