Example sentences of "[noun] of state [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it 's a very different matter if you can start tracing sexual spider 's webs that link fabulous-looking women with men who ought to be unrelated : secretaries of state on the one hand and ( say ) drug-dealers , gun-runners , con-men , terrorists or Russian spies on the other . |
| 2 | Once Heseltine departed , succeeding Secretaries of State for the Environment such as King , Jenkins and Baker , were unwilling or unable to sustain this vision . |
| 3 | This concentrated in the hands of one individual the control of foreign policy which had hitherto been entrusted , together with a vast range of other business , to the Secretaries of State for the Northern and Southern Departments . |
| 4 | The Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Trade and Industry appointed the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment in May . |
| 5 | Let us consider democracy in local government and the three Secretaries of State for the Environment who have had a go at local government taxation . |
| 6 | It reflects the proposals which my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment , for Scotland and for Wales issued for consultation on 5 November . |
| 7 | On the hon. Gentleman 's request for a revenue support grant statement from my right hon. Friends the Secretaries of State for the Environment and for Wales , the hon. Gentleman is correct in intimating that statements on those matters are necessary , and I hope that they will be made very soon — I hope next week . |
| 8 | The proposals were welcomed by the Secretaries of State for the Environment and Trade and Industry , Michael Heseltine and Peter Lilley . |
| 9 | We have given Wales one of the best Secretaries of State in the Cabinet . |
| 10 | In an extensive reshuffle of the Supreme Military Council ( now composed principally of civilians ) on Oct. 14 , 1989 , President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo created three Ministries of State at the Presidency , one of which went to a newcomer to the Council , Alejandro Evuna Asangono . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the July 1989 gathering of Heads of State on the island of Tarawa , in Kiribati , the South Pacific Forum placed the use of drift-nets in the South Pacific as its most important agenda item — the first time that an environmental issue had topped the agenda at a political gathering in the South Pacific . |
| 13 | The issue of workers ' rights found expression in a Community Charter of the Fundamental Social Rights of Workers ( pp. 36668 ; 36985 ) which was resolutely opposed by the United Kingdom alone , but which received , in a modified form , the assent of all other heads of state at the Strasbourg summit on Dec. 8-9 , 1989 ( see pp. 37132-33 ) . |
| 14 | Although the Social Charter as signed on 9 December 1989 by all the Heads of State of the EC , excluding the UK , is of no legal effect , UK companies can not afford to ignore it . |
| 15 | Heads of state of the world 's richest countries flew into Rio this month on a mission to save the world . |
| 16 | A summit meeting took place on Feb. 24 in Amman , the Jordanian capital , of the heads of state of the four countries which together composed the Arab Co-operation Council ( ACC ) , the organization set up in February 1989 under an agreement between Egypt , Iraq , Jordan and North Yemen [ see p. 36474 ] . |
| 17 | The Republic of Yemen was welcomed as a member of the United Nations on May 23 , and sent a unified delegation to the Arab League summit in Baghdad [ see pp. 37472-73 ] , where on May 29 it was agreed with the heads of state of the other three Arab Co-operation Council members ( Egypt , Iraq and Jordan ) that the Republic of Yemen would hold the seat formerly held by North Yemen . |
| 18 | A summit called for mid-October by Ivoirian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny , who supported Taylor , was called off after the heads of state of the five states contributing to ECOMOG — Nigeria , Ghana , Guinea , The Gambia and Sierra Leone — had declined to attend ; reports indicated a split along linguistic lines , with the minority anglophone states being the principal upholders of ECOMOG 's role . |
| 19 | In the final communiqué , issued on Dec. 25 , of the meeting , which was attended by the heads of state of the six GCC countries , the GCC urged " the international community and the [ UN ] Security Council in particular to put more pressure on the Iraqi regime " for the implementation of UN resolutions . |
| 20 | The 14th summit meeting of the heads of state of the Economic Community of the Countries of the Great Lakes was held in Gisenyi , Rwanda , on Aug. 1 ; discussions concentrated on regional security which was declared to be the " first objective " of the community . |
| 21 | The room was crammed with the bric-à-brac of kingship , the usual gifts from brother heads of state around the world : dolls in glass cases , a vivarium , two portraits of George Bush , seals of visiting warships , a porcelain plate from the Republic of China ( which keeps a one-man embassy in Nuku'alofa ) , a map of the moon presented by Mr Reagan , statuettes , umbrellas , a humidor and any number of sets of engraved Waterford glass . |
| 22 | The United Kingdom stated , in limine , that the nationality of the owner of the vessel was generally recognised in international law and in the practice of states as the principal criterion for establishing the necessary link between the flag state and the vessel . |
| 23 | He ran a Department of State with the detailed application which he had devoted to making his way in Glasgow business . |
| 24 | For all their grandeur , the chancellors in Germany , France and England in this period were still essentially officials of the household : even in England the royal chancery did not become a quasi-independent department of state until the turn of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 25 | Sometimes a change of state of the substrate results in formation of soil . |
| 26 | We may now eliminate the kinetic energy from our energy equation giving , per unit of time , Under an adiabatic change of state of the body from which we deduce that is an exact differential and there exists a function W , the strain energy function , such that and , in this case , W = U. |
| 27 | We may also note that certain verbs seem to have the notion of change of state as the principal part of their meaning , not only make ( in one of its values ) as already cited , but also have ( again in one of its meanings ; see Chapter 9 for other uses ) , and render . |
| 28 | Such operations have the advantage of removing the pollutants entirely from the waste stream ie the compounds do not merely undergo a change of state within the environment — and can exhibit beneficial interactions with microorganisms ( eg the so-called powdered activated carbon ( PACT ) process , in which powdered carbon is added to activated sludge and ‘ biological activated carbon ’ , in which microorganisms extend the life of carbon filters before regeneration is required ) . |
| 29 | The point of his advice is not just to authorise " medeled liyf " which the lord is anyhow pursuing : He can cut from one kind of state to the other with joy ; this is for him precisely how love is to be ordained . |
| 30 | Corneliu Bogdan , a respected career diplomat and since Dec. 28 the Minister-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and de facto NSF spokesman , died on Jan. 1 , aged 68 . |