Example sentences of "[noun] of state in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have given Wales one of the best Secretaries of State in the Cabinet . |
| 2 | The Soviet Union , with Cuban assistance , experimented with the idea of a left-leaning confederation of states in the Horn of Africa in spring 1977 . |
| 3 | The importance of this image in the history of western political thought has long been recognized ; indeed it has been hailed as the rebirth of the concept of state in the Middle Ages . |
| 4 | Cromwell , the head of state in the Republic , encouraged a reorganization of the East India Company , with a new charter which put it on a firmer basis . |
| 5 | Cranmer 's involvement in affairs of state in the reign of Edward VI was embarrassing , pathetic and finally disastrous . |
| 6 | Of the higher officers of state in the fourteenth century most were in holy orders and many could reasonably expect a bishopric as the reward of their secular labours . |
| 7 | This is a metric on the space of states in the game studied above , with eight tiles which have to be moved to the goal position : |
| 8 | It is the payment of such reasonable amount as the council itself determines , subject to a ceiling in the form of an amount prescribed by the Secretary of State in the Regulations . |
| 9 | He enjoyed a good relationship with Acheson and it suited both men for Dulles to be closely involved in policy formulation : Acheson because it would diminish at least some of the acrimony in Congress and Dulles because he wished to consolidate his record so that he could become Secretary of State in the next Republican administration . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 11 | The Labour Party promptly changed its position and in October 1974 ( when the SNP won eleven seats with 30 per cent of the Scottish vote ) promised to bring in legislative devolution setting up a Scottish Assembly with most of the functions of the secretary of state in the hands of a separate Scottish executive responsible to that Assembly . |
| 12 | I am delighted that we will continue that process under my right hon. Friends the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State in the new Parliament which will be formed some time late next spring or in the summer . |
| 13 | I beg to move , to leave out from ’ That ’ to the end of the Question , and to add instead thereof : this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Cardiff Bay Barrage Bill because of the inadequacy of the groundwater protection provisions in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule , because the public consultation on the Hydrotechnica report is not yet concluded , because that consultation process has allowed no mechanism for public discussion of the report , and because the Bill makes no provision for an independent final arbiter on matters concerning the quality of the water environment in the inland bay . |
| 14 | The groundwater protection provisions are inadequate in that the powers granted to the Secretary of State in the Bill would enable him to weaken the protections specified in the schedule . |
| 15 | My hon. Friend made certain representations about the proposal to my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State in the course of a discussion last month . |
| 16 | The Hungarian Secretary of State in the Ministry of Trade , Imre Dunai , said on Jan. 19 that the decision was partly a response to an IMF-imposed condition which required Hungary to balance its rouble settlements in order to qualify for further credit . |
| 17 | Twelve members of the cabinet were now Hutus , including Prime Minster Adrien Sibomana , Finance Minister Gerard Niyibigira , and the first Hutu head of public security , Laurent Kagimbi ( Secretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and Development of Local Collectives in charge of Public Security ) . |
| 18 | Christopher , 67 , a former Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter administration , was charged with running day-to-day operations , while Jordan , 56 , a lawyer and civil rights expert , was given a role described as " chairman of the board " . |
| 19 | Second , a number of states in the Hellenistic period reduced the weight of their coinage . |
| 20 | The localised states thus act as an electron reservoir , keeping the effective density of mobile electrons constant over ranges of V that have widths proportional to the number of states in the mobility gap . |
| 21 | A poor rule will not be penalised until the Nth attempt at search , where N is the number of states in the entire search subspace accessible through this rule . |
| 22 | Washington had agreements with a number of states in the Indian Ocean basin , he claimed , on the joint use of local military bases and installations by American and national armed forces . |
| 23 | Since there are substantially fewer syntactic categories than words in the language , the number of states in the model is reduced . |
| 24 | On Feb. 5 the former Under-Secretary of State in the Interior Ministry , Wladyslaw Ciaston , and department director Zenon Platek , were accused of ordering the murder of Fr Jerzy Popieluszko in October 1984 [ see pp. 33292-93 ] . |
| 25 | *Laurent KagimbiSecretary of State in the Ministry of Interior and Development of Local Collectives in charge of Public Security *** |
| 26 | Of the 20 Cabinet ministers and ministers of state in the outgoing government to stand for election only four were returned . |
| 27 | To control the damage , the Minister of State in the President 's Office , John Tembo , met the seven bishops . |
| 28 | When Mr Major ran for party leader , the terrier-like figure of Mrs Shephard joined his campaign team early on , rounded up his support and delivered him a victory which he was swift to reward with the post of Minister of State in the Treasury . |
| 29 | On November 1st , two Zionist terrorists from Palestine murdered Lord Moyne , British Resident Minister of State in the Middle East , in Cairo . |
| 30 | Under the last Labour government , the minister of state in the Department of Health and Social Security who took particular responsibility for social security , Mr Stanley Orme , was a Cabinet minister . |